taco matamoros: taco delight...

Posted by cherrypatter in brooklyn, cheap, food, latin american, mexican, sunset park on 06 22nd, 2010 | No Comments
sunset park spot tacos matamoros is nothing special from the inside or out.  a plain box, a t.v. on in the background, and a little bit dark.  but the tacos were excellent.   i got a few different kinds (sorry i’m not that adventuresome so i didn’t try all those stomach parts) and stuck...
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yun nan flavour snack: tangy, sour and s...

Posted by cherrypatter in asian, brooklyn, cheap, food, red hook on 01 11th, 2010 | No Comments
not much chinese food, even in new york, transports me back to my days in china just after graduating from college.  i lived in the northeast, teaching english (for which i had zero training) to a bunch of graduate students basically my age at the dalian university of technology.  i knew almost no...
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lan zhou handpull noodles: a taste of th...

Posted by cherrypatter in asian, brooklyn, cheap, chinese, food, sunset park, take out on 05 18th, 2009 | No Comments
having spent a year travelling throughout china trying all sorts of amazing (and not so amazing) food, i definitely crave the local chinese specialties that are found at the hole in the wall spots.  not so clean, but oh so interesting and often tasty.   since my travels were long ago, my memories...
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