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Happy New Year!

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Happy Western Calendar New Year and Happy Lunar New Year!  It’s good to be back.  And now that I’m again part of the 7.8% of the nation’s unemployed, I’ll have more time to do more you-food stuff. Lucky you! Alright, so as usual, I wanted to get this post out earlier closer to the new year, but owing to work (don’t have to worry about that now) and that it takes me way to much time by blog standards to write these these things, I present it to you now.

In honor of 2009, I present to you now, Tamales!
(A Chinese New Year Post is in the works)

Click on the image below for the whole enchilada (get it?):

Pork Tamales: one of the best ways to welcome the New Year.

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Shefali’s Baigan Burtha

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And we’re back and with a recipe to boot! It has been a while. I know. Right now winter is quickly descending upon us in the northern hemisphere and for those of us who live in areas like NYC that means, winter jackets, hats, gloves and lots of roasted root vegetables, soups and if you’re me, heavy meaty stew type dishes. Well here’s a dish that will take you back to summer with it’s light vibrant flavors and fresh ingredients.  Also, I shot this video a few months ago when it was summer.  All good things taken time.  Isn’t that what they say? So really, it’s not so much a seasonal dish so much as a delicious one. If you can get eggplant, you can make baigan burtha.   This is Shefali’s take on it. By the way, this is also Shef’s delicioustings debut as a contributing cook – she’s been seen as a contributing eater several times.  So, I hope you enjoy the full video and the recipe.

Shef cooks up burtha

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Simon and Jen get a serving of big Italian meat.

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Alright you all. You’re in for a treat.  My friends Simon and Jen recently went to Italy where they soaked in the old world culture and charm and basically engorged themselves with some of the most delicious food known to man and woman.  But don’t take my word for it.  Take theirs.  Follow their gastronomic chronicles on their excellent travel blog.  For a taste of what I’m talking about, click on this charming photo of Simon and Jen living la dolce vita for a riveting account of Simon’s interactions with some top grade Italian meat.

buono appetito!

-C. Ting

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Michelle L: Bangkok Food Court Fanatics

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Alright here’s another post from a fellow lover of travel and food, Michelle L. who this summer did what everybody should do at least once in their lives: traveled to Southeast Asia and ate like mofo.  Actually after the first time you do this, you will be hooked probably and go several more times.  Expect more delicious posts from her in the future.
-C. Ting

Bangkok Food Court Fanatics

For those of you who love travel as much as I do, let me divulge to you the secrets of budget dining in Bangkok, Thailand. No, no you can skip the red plastic seating and no longer have to turn your head as dishes are being washed in unknown sources of water. As much as we all love to eat with the locals, I will tell you where the other locals are eating; that’s right people, they are eating in the food courts!

Click on the mango sticky rice for the full story!

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Tokyo Part 2: Tsukiji fish market and sushi!

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The visit to Tsukiji Fish Market was really one of the highlights of my trip to Tokyo so I thought it deserved its own post.  Where else can you see dudes zipping around in these crazy R2D2-looking little trucks  carting around giant frozen tuna?  And where else can you eat the absolute best sushi you’ve ever had in your life?    Click on the beautiful slab of maguro below for the full story.

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