Your favorite bar snack?
Jun 16, 2007, 7:30 pm
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I know of one restaurant in NYC that serves hard-boiled eggs for free at its bar. I don't like hard-boiled eggs in most contexts but they're great with alcohol for some reason. And this avoids the problem of strangers' dirty hands because you only touch (and peel the shell from) your own egg.
Jun 16, 2007, 8:36 pm
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Jun 17, 2007, 7:03 am
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Free - sesame sticks are great.
I still will have to go with nachos with lots of stuff on top. Beef, refried beans man I wish I was back in North America. The Chinese have NOT mastered nachos yet.
Also adamame is also a good call.
In Taiwan, we have noticed a lot of unshelled peanuts and pickled vegetables. Haven't decided if I really like them or not.
I still will have to go with nachos with lots of stuff on top. Beef, refried beans man I wish I was back in North America. The Chinese have NOT mastered nachos yet.
Also adamame is also a good call.
In Taiwan, we have noticed a lot of unshelled peanuts and pickled vegetables. Haven't decided if I really like them or not.
Jul 3, 2007, 3:51 am
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Good list that just needs nori with a chili and mayo dip and a salmon egg filled cucumber Japanese style added.
Jul 3, 2007, 6:02 am
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Tapas
In parts of Madrid and along the South of Spain this was the reality before tapas became an international 'boom':
Go to the bar. Order a drink (1/3 pint perhaps). Drink arrives - which gets put on your tab. So does a little something to eat. No charge. Order another drink, get another tapa. And so on and so on. Food encourages you to drink. Quality encourages you to return.
Within Madrid (and other cities) where the tapas bars stand cheek by jowl together, each bar may have their own speciality and people will seek it out. Going 'de tapas' will involve visiting one bar, having a couple of drinks and enjoying the tapas of that establishment, then going to another bar, and so on and so on.
What's on offer? Oof! You could write a book on this. Here are a few selections.
Montaditos:
olive and anchovy (not the heavily salted kind), tuna and piquillo pepper, pork loin (lomo), serrano ham
Pimientos del padron (a russian roulette - some are hot/spicy - some are not and there's no way to tell which)
Hot chorizo sausages, calamares a la romana, patatas bravas, chipirones
I could go on and on and on....
Sure, I like wasabi peas, and edamame, and arare (rice crackers) but for bar snacks... tapas!
Even my wedding 'cake' was a huge portion of a popular Spanish tapa ('ensalada rusa' - which was served with bread sticks as tapas in the evening - who wants 'real cake' as a bar snack???)
Go to the bar. Order a drink (1/3 pint perhaps). Drink arrives - which gets put on your tab. So does a little something to eat. No charge. Order another drink, get another tapa. And so on and so on. Food encourages you to drink. Quality encourages you to return.
Within Madrid (and other cities) where the tapas bars stand cheek by jowl together, each bar may have their own speciality and people will seek it out. Going 'de tapas' will involve visiting one bar, having a couple of drinks and enjoying the tapas of that establishment, then going to another bar, and so on and so on.
What's on offer? Oof! You could write a book on this. Here are a few selections.
Montaditos:
olive and anchovy (not the heavily salted kind), tuna and piquillo pepper, pork loin (lomo), serrano ham
Pimientos del padron (a russian roulette - some are hot/spicy - some are not and there's no way to tell which)
Hot chorizo sausages, calamares a la romana, patatas bravas, chipirones
I could go on and on and on....
Sure, I like wasabi peas, and edamame, and arare (rice crackers) but for bar snacks... tapas!
Even my wedding 'cake' was a huge portion of a popular Spanish tapa ('ensalada rusa' - which was served with bread sticks as tapas in the evening - who wants 'real cake' as a bar snack???)
Last edited by LapLap; Jul 3, 2007 at 8:39 am
Jul 8, 2007, 9:07 pm
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No holds barred best bar snack EVER:
Deep fried anchovy stuffed green olives at Downtown Restaurant in Berkeley, CA. Salty, funky, crispy, greasy...OMG. Save me from myself.
Sadly, not free.
Sadly, not free.