"Sambal grilled chicken ribbon" was the one item on the chalked wall menu that wore a double-chili-pepper insignia. Evidently I wasn't a strong advocate for my chili tolerance; according to the check, my order was dialed back to "mild spicy." My consolation was a dense patch of minced garlic.
Culinary Noodle Kitchen
4202 30th Ave. (at 42nd St.), Astoria, Queens
718-606-1898
www.CulinaryNoodleKitchen.com
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The Jewish Cookbook
Thursday, September 12, 6:00-8:00
Honey's, 93 Scott Ave. (at Randolph St.), East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.Eventbrite.com/e/the-jewish-cookbook-launch-event-hosted-by-jewish-food-society-phaidon-tickets-68625850767
Tickets: $55
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church Festival
Thursday through Sunday, September 12-15, various evening and weekend hours, rain or shine
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 10 Mill Rd., New Rochelle, New York
www.HolyTrinityNR.org/calendar/greek-festival-2019
Donation: adults, $2; children under age 12, free when accompanied by a parent
Blauvelt Sons of Italy Italian Feast and Carnival
Thursday through Sunday, September 12-15, various evening and weekend hours
Masonic Park Fairgrounds, 89 Western Hwy., Tappan, New York
www.BlauveltSonsOfItaly.org/italian-feast.html
Admission: adults, $5; children under age 12, free
Feast of San Gennaro
Thursday, September 12, through Sunday, September 22, 10:00-6:00
On and around Mulberry St., Little Italy, Manhattan
www.DoNYC.com/p/guide-to-san-gennaro
Free admission
Macedonian Food Festival
Friday, September 13, 4:00-8:00; Saturday, noon-10:00; Sunday, noon-8:00
Macedonian Orthodox Church St. Nikola, 55 Wentick St., Totowa, New Jersey
www.Facebook.com/events/316522912632107
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2018/09/st-nikola-macedonian-orthodox-church-food-festival.html
Free admission
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(Please note: In exchange for my help in promoting what I think is a worthy cause, I've received four tickets to this event.) On the final weekend afternoon of summer, Rodrigo Duarte — the proprietor of Caseiro é Bom ("homemade and good") in the Ironbound District of Newark, New Jersey — will bring a very special taste of Portugal to Long Island City, Queens. Duarte will roast a Portuguese Alentejano hog, the genetic forebear of the pata negra, and serve charcuterie made from this remarkable animal.
The ticket price also includes side dishes and desserts; a cash bar will be provided by the venue, Anable Basin Sailing Bar and Grill. Tickets ($40; free for kids under age 12 with a parent) are available from Dining for Justice. All proceeds benefit Immigrant Families Together.
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This "family tofu shop" was once best-known, when known at all, as the factory outlet for soy and rice products sold at Fong Inn Too, its Mott St. storefront (now closed). Tofu squares, destined for restaurants, were the chief wholesale product. Many retail customers, however, visited the shop for hot taho, also known as soy custard (despite the lack of egg) or tofu pudding.
After a 2019 makeover and reopening, Fong On once again provides walk-up customers with tofu pudding, now with choices of toppings and syrups. Shown here is one of three house combos, christened with red beans, grass jelly, and taro balls. The most familiar syrup takes its character from brown sugar; at the counterwoman's suggestion, I added a gentle kick with the "more traditional" ginger syrup instead.
From several years back, before the shop's makeover: Hot tofu pudding sits in a tub (in the first photo below, shown uncovered), waiting to be scooped into takeaway containers. It's bland before the addition of a little syrup, much of which quickly filters to the bottom; delving deep with a spoon breaks up the pudding into smaller bits. Perhaps this looser consistency was the genesis of another name, dou hua — in full, dou fu hua, or "bean curd flower."
Fong On
81 Division St. (Eldridge-Pike Sts.), Manhattan
917-261-7222
www.Facebook.com/FongOn1933
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Try as I might, I couldn't manage a biteaway view of these fried pickles. The crisp batter gave way much more quickly and cleanly than the pickle slices themselves, which repeatedly burned my lips. From a roster of nine sauces, the yogurt-based house namesake provided fast, fast relief.
This is what I was going for: http://bit.ly/2lGyaNN
Diller
357 Grand St. (Essex-Norfolk Sts.), Manhattan
646-739-8074
www.Facebook.com /DillerNYC
Closed Saturday
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My batch of kanyah, West African peanut cakes, was made with toasted rice flour. An equally common (and nearly as crumbly) variety is prepared with gari, granular fermented cassava, whose sourness offers a compelling contrast with the other principal ingredient, sugar. This grocery stacks both types of kanyah right by the register.
Also shown, at the corner: a secondary street sign honoring this Liberian neighborhood's most famous performers.
Targee African Grocery
523 Targee St. (Vanderbilt Ave.-Sobel Ct.), Park Hill, Staten Island
718-816-7670
https://Targee-African-Grocery-inc.business.site
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Piled atop two-dollar tacos, this food truck's birria de res, a spicy beef stew, is very moist all on its own. Enjoy the beefy consomé for its own sake — there's no need to dunk.
Birria-Landia NYC
Truck on Roosevelt Ave. near the northwest corner with 78th St., Jackson Heights, Queens
347-283-2162
www.Facebook.com/BirriaLandiaNYC
Dusk till late night
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In the name of this new cafe, the apostrophe-t is a contraction of "at," the Filipino word for "and." So, then, "Kape't Torta" means something like "Coffee 'n' Cake." On this visit, my chosen cake was a particularly lush cheese ensaymada, the archipelago's answer to the sticky bun.
Kape't Torta
8313 Queens Blvd. (Van Loon St.-51st Ave.), Elmhurst, Queens
347-653-3517
www.Facebook.com/Kapet-Torta-103078904385440
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Studying Food in Public: A Conversation
Thursday, September 5, 7:00-9:00
Museum of Food and Drink, 62 Bayard St. (Lorimer-Leonard Sts.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.MOFAD.org/events/2019/8/17/foodstudies
Tickets: $15
One in a series presented by MOFAD
St. Markella Greek Orthodox Church Street Festival
Thursday through Sunday, September 5-8, various evening and weekend hours
Cathedral of St. Markella, 2268 26th St. (near 23rd Ave., Astoria, Queens
www.Facebook.com/events/1367105690122395
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2017/09/st-markella-greek-orthodox-church-street-festival.html
Free admission
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Festival
Thursday through Sunday, September 5-8, various evening and weekend hours
St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, 721 Rahway Ave., Union, New Jersey
www.Facebook.com/StDemUnion
Admission: $2
Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Festival
Friday through Sunday, September 6-8, various evening and weekend hours; repeats September 13-15
Holy Trinity-St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, 1641 Richmond Ave., Bulls Head, Staten Island
www.SIGreekFestival.org
Admission: adults, $2
Norwalk Oyster Festival
Friday through Sunday, September 6-8, various evening and weekend hours
Veterans Park, Seaview Ave., Norwalk, Connecticut
www.Seaport.org/Oyster-Festival
Tickets: adults, $12; reduced on Friday, and for seniors, children, and active-duty US military personnel with ID
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"Poppy seed strudel" was the label. For English speakers who would be flummoxed by "makowiec" (mah-Koh-vee-ets), as the counterwoman called it — literally "poppy seed cake" in Polish — it's a much easier name to manage. The bakery still has many Slovak customers, too, so asking for "koláč (Koh-lahtch), whether rolled with poppy seeds or with crushed walnuts, will work just as well.
Kohout's Bakery
75 Jewell St. (at Pacific Ave.), Garfield, New Jersey
973-772-7270
www.Facebook.com/pages/Kohout-Bakery/119563011427147
Closed Sunday after 2:00, and all day Monday and Tuesday
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