August 26, 2008
August 25, 2008
Preface:Umamiventure #11: Banh Mi Crawl, Pt. 1 (Ba Xuyen)Umamiventure #11: Banh Mi Crawl, Pt. 2 (Thanh Da)
Judson: Tan Thanh was unsatisfying for multiple reasons: the bread was old and crumbly, and the “lunchmeat” ingredients were
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August 22, 2008
Preface: Umamiventure #11: Banh Mi Crawl, Pt. 1 (Ba Xuyen)
Kayoko: They added ground bbq pork here in their combo #1, which added a nice sweetness cut by the ass-kicking jalapeño. A very well-formulated, balanced sandwich.
Michelle: Thanh
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August 20, 2008
Last weekend, we had THE Umamiventure of Umamiventures. It was a gorgeous, cloudless August day- over the course of 4+ hours, 15 of us hit up 4 sandwich spots in the Sunset Park section of Brooklyn. Yes, somehow there were 15 people on Planet Earth insane enough to go on this trip- some who had never had a Vietnamese sandwich
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August 4, 2008
My brother and I ran into Nicky’s Vietnamese Sandwiches by accident on Mother’s Day. We almost went to Bratwa but it was too fucking crowded (too full–my complaints against Bratwa are now that it is too expensive and the service is bad. The curried goat is still off the hook, just watch for bones), and were on our way
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February 28, 2008
It’s all in the air/ You hear it everywhere No matter what you do/ It’s gonna grab a hold on you California soul… California soul…– Ashford & Simpson
It’s in my bones, I can’t shake it off- California is IN me. Took a week off to attend a wedding in San Francisco, and detoured through sunny LA and San Diego on
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September 5, 2007
Last week, when Matt sent me this Gridskipper link– a guide to banh mi in the city– it was 11am. By 11:05, my stomach was grumbling; 11:10, I was drooling; 11:30, fantasies of pork, cilantro and pate filled baguettes kept me from getting any work done. So what did I do? I knocked on
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August 19, 2007
With such a ramen frenzy going on in New York right now (a cute little “guide to ramen” column in Time Out this week; buzz on Eater about yet another Hakata-style rameneria opening in Greenpoint
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March 16, 2007
as Matt and I walked down Atlantic Avenue last weekend to browse their row of mid-century modern furniture shops, a Vietnamese sandwich, or bánh mì, at Nicky’s was definitely on his agenda. it was a beautiful day, people were out, indulging in as much of the springtime tease as possible (Saturday- warm, sunny; today- snow!)– it
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March 8, 2007
My little brother has been galavanting around South East Asia for months, and we don’t know when he’s coming back. He took these pictures in Vietnam, at a floating market on the Mekong Delta. Don’t you just love the way they hang all their produce up on a pole on their boat to show what they’re selling?
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