weekend food round-up

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obao delivers:

lao yellow rice (duck confit, golden chives)

i'm not sure what is so laotian about this rice... i don't say this flippantly (i am part-laotian)... nonetheless, it was pretty good.

pad see iew

this time, i do see the green mango kimchee in the dish (top left corner).

crispy spring rolls

love that these springs rolls are wrapped (and deep fried) in rice paper. much prefer rice paper wrapped spring rolls...just adds that extra crunch and much tastier. most places don't use the rice paper wrap. i'm thinking because the rice paper wrapping doesn't freeze very well...therefore, you have to wrap it daily.

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random sushi place in midtown east:

which also offered free sake for all orders over $15. and by free sake, i mean approximately 750ml of sake. (so, between the 2 of us, we were offered 1.5L of sake...which we did not finish, for fear of passing out).

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there are few restaurants in the city that i've been to more than 2-3 times. ippudo is one exception.

miso ramen

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spot dessert bar added a few new plated desserts. tried the ovaltine cake and the banana pudding.

chocolate banana pudding

i don't know what those tiny-round-crunchy things are, but they are good.