What are your 5 Favorite Ethnic/Regional Foods-Restaurant
Feb 19, 2012, 1:36 pm
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Feb 19, 2012, 2:52 pm
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Feb 19, 2012, 4:22 pm
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I'll be honest and say I don't eat in many Thai places. And I can only talk about places I have been to. But I enjoy LoS a lot. I think part of the reason I like is because if I am eating there, I am in one of my favorite places to be. Las Vegas.
Yes it is. It too is some of the top fried chicken I have had.
Feb 19, 2012, 5:25 pm
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I'd like to nominate a strip mall in Durham, NC. I wouldn't include any of the restaurants as the best ethnic/regional restaurants, but combined together in an average-looking strip mall, it's my current go-to place for lunch in the Raleigh/Durham area.
Off Highway 55. Has the most wonderful Bolivian empanadas place (Sarah's?), Papa Mojos (decent creole and fun bar), a fantastic Thai restaurant (with the best ginger/cilantro dressing for salads), very solid Indian buffet, and a new Mongolian place that was promising in my one visit. Backyard BBQ was just a walk down the road in case you need a fix of delicious Eastern NC barbeque. A couple of other non-chain sandwich places as well that are fine but nothing I'd drive to.
The one ethnic restaurant I'd like to include from Raleigh is Machu Picchu, a Peruvian restaurant off of Falls of the Neuse road. Best ceviche trio I've ever had ...
Off Highway 55. Has the most wonderful Bolivian empanadas place (Sarah's?), Papa Mojos (decent creole and fun bar), a fantastic Thai restaurant (with the best ginger/cilantro dressing for salads), very solid Indian buffet, and a new Mongolian place that was promising in my one visit. Backyard BBQ was just a walk down the road in case you need a fix of delicious Eastern NC barbeque. A couple of other non-chain sandwich places as well that are fine but nothing I'd drive to.
The one ethnic restaurant I'd like to include from Raleigh is Machu Picchu, a Peruvian restaurant off of Falls of the Neuse road. Best ceviche trio I've ever had ...
Feb 20, 2012, 1:15 pm
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I'd like to nominate a strip mall in Durham, NC. I wouldn't include any of the restaurants as the best ethnic/regional restaurants, but combined together in an average-looking strip mall, it's my current go-to place for lunch in the Raleigh/Durham area.
Off Highway 55. Has the most wonderful Bolivian empanadas place (Sarah's?), Papa Mojos (decent creole and fun bar), a fantastic Thai restaurant (with the best ginger/cilantro dressing for salads), very solid Indian buffet, and a new Mongolian place that was promising in my one visit. Backyard BBQ was just a walk down the road in case you need a fix of delicious Eastern NC barbeque. A couple of other non-chain sandwich places as well that are fine but nothing I'd drive to.
Off Highway 55. Has the most wonderful Bolivian empanadas place (Sarah's?), Papa Mojos (decent creole and fun bar), a fantastic Thai restaurant (with the best ginger/cilantro dressing for salads), very solid Indian buffet, and a new Mongolian place that was promising in my one visit. Backyard BBQ was just a walk down the road in case you need a fix of delicious Eastern NC barbeque. A couple of other non-chain sandwich places as well that are fine but nothing I'd drive to.
Apr 15, 2012, 12:39 pm
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I've too many too count, but in the spirit of FT magnanimity, Jakarta has at least two to mention:
Woku Blangan, Manado cuisine, Jl. H. Agus Salim No. 19 (near Sarinah/Jalan Thamrin)-food from Manado, a city in northeast Sulawesi, is generally quite spicy, seafood-friendly, and can also have dog and bat (as much of the Manadonese are Christian, some of the food may not be halal). This is the one cuisine that I can't find in the NYC-area that I think about everyday.
Dapur Sunda, a chain (at least in Jakarta) of Sundanese eateries. Sunda is a region in western Java, and the cuisine combines spicy and sweet and is halal.
A bonus of both of these places is that they have always have soap...
Woku Blangan, Manado cuisine, Jl. H. Agus Salim No. 19 (near Sarinah/Jalan Thamrin)-food from Manado, a city in northeast Sulawesi, is generally quite spicy, seafood-friendly, and can also have dog and bat (as much of the Manadonese are Christian, some of the food may not be halal). This is the one cuisine that I can't find in the NYC-area that I think about everyday.
Dapur Sunda, a chain (at least in Jakarta) of Sundanese eateries. Sunda is a region in western Java, and the cuisine combines spicy and sweet and is halal.
A bonus of both of these places is that they have always have soap...