weekday lunch: ippudo

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extremely rarely is there an opportunity to have a weekday lunch that's not in the UES.

ippudo has a set lunch during the weekday, who knew...

salad, rice & unagi

miso ramen (of course...)

:P

ramen: hide-chan

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recently opened ramen place hide-chan.

i was curious after reading reviews...also within walking distance of my apartment...

grilled pork toro

pork buns

hakata kuro ramen

so meh ~_~.

i'd rather wait for a seat at ippudo.

day 2: trio in the east village

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my most frequented restaurant in the city: ippudo.

steamed pork buns

(the usual) miso ramen

for dessert: the prix-fixe at chikalicious. and i don't remember all the components for each dessert :?

amuse

cheesecake

banana and chocolate

basil sorbet, pineapple brule...and ??

geez. memory is weak.

petits fours

and round 2 for dessert: wafels & dinges. for waffle, of course.

belgian waffle with spekuloos

and finish. ^-^

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.

academia hell

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have been procrastinating on my presentations for the first journal club of the academic year, and now it's have-to-do-it-time. article topics? msk. if any of you know me, you know how much i just love msk imaging. double bah.

yesterday, i did manage to head to ippudo for a nice post-call lunch with one of the irish body imaging fellows who, i kid you not, was the only caucasian in the restaurant. the pork buns were so worth the trip there. too good, peoples, too good. also had the miso ramen. the broth was way better than the actual ramen noodles, which was kind of disappointing, coming from the "king of ramen." whatevs. i would still go back,...but there must be better ramen somewhere in the city...will find it, don't worry.

waiting for weekend

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with no days of pre-call or post-call, it is a full work week. meh.

last night i went out for pommes frites and dollar-sushi. (yes, you read that right. dollar-sushi). first stop, pommes frites. i may have to eat fries every week until i have tried all the dipping sauces. last night, we had the cheese sauce, sundried tomato mayo, & parmesan peppercorn mayo. the next ones i want to try are mango chutney mayo and grilled eggplant mayo. (as per recommendations). second stop, dollar-sushi. it may sound totally sketchy, but it was surprisely o-k. the place was packed, which is generally a good sign. after, i was too lazy to walk to butter lane to get "the better cupcake." (next time...)

tonight, i was contemplating checking out barney's warehouse sale which started today. after reading some stories online of the queue to get in this morning and the lack of any worthy sales, i passed and decided to check out the saja sample sale in the lower east side. i'm glad i did. although the sample sale was a disaster with absolutely no rhyme or reason to the way merch was put on the racks...there were a lot of great deals. trying to look thru the racks was deadly. i don't know why, but there were a lot of tiny asian girls there. and asian girls can get mean when they are shopping for deals, peoples. i snagged this small sized dress (which were few, most of the merch was size 6), as angry little asian girls watched with envy.

saja cowl neck dress in moss print. (retail $470! who would pay this, really?!!) sample sale $70

finally friday tomorrow! want to try one of ippudo or jewel bako .

this weekend: visitors! saturday night booked at bouley. the tasting menu. all i can say is, it better be good, peoples. it better be really good.