This post on Everything Frosted is overdue. Time to give it it’s due. I had just come from dumplings on Mosco Street when this blackboard caught my eye. Even though I was stuffed from the dumplings, the cupcake flavors were irresistible. I just had to go upstairs and take a look. I was greeted warmly by the owner. He was passionate about his creations and offered to freshly frost a cupcake with less frosting than those that were already in the case. The choice was hard to make but I finally decided on a green tea cupcake with jasmine vanilla buttercream frosting. He packaged it in the cutest single cupcake box. Unfortunately my box took a tumble before I got it home so I couldn’t get a decent picture of it but check out their website (link above). And go try the cupcakes for yourself. The cupcakes would be great paired with ice cream from the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory! I’m going to try that next time.
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Dumplings on Mosco
One of my favorite places to have dumplings is at a hole in the wall in Chinatown on the teeny tiny Mosco street in Manhattan. There are two ladies in the tiny place rolling out dough, filling, and cooking dumplings. It’s a steal at 5 for $1. You can also buy frozen bags of them so you can cook them at home. They are seasoned really well and although many “foreigners (lao wai)” (aka Caucasian, or White people) frequent the place, many Chinese people eat there as well. It is literally a hole in the wall with a counter on the left side of the place to sit and eat at. I stopped to get dumplings and hot & sour soup for lunch and paid a whopping $2. As I sat and ate I eavesdropped on the ladies’ conversation. They didn’t talk about anything extraordinary at that time but I probably would have caught some juicy tidbits had I stuck around a little longer!
Phö Băng
Yes, there are countless jokes out there about the Vietnamese dish called pho. The correct pronunciation of it is fuh like fun minus the n. It is actually a similar pronunciation for a Chinese rice noodle called fun. In case you haven’t heard any of the jokes, there’s, “What the pho?” and plenty more out there. Pho is a staple in Southeast Asia. It’s rice noodles bathed in a spiced beef broth accompanied by various cuts of beef and garnished with bean sprouts, basil, lemon, cilantro, jalapeños and onions. I always add Sriracha hot sauce into my bowl of pho as well. Anthony Bourdain once compared his steaming bowl of pho to paradise and I don’t feel that he was far from the truth. A friend and I ate at a chain called Pho Bang in Chinatown on Mott Street. There’s also one in Elmhurst that I frequent. It’s where I go whenever I am craving Vietnamese food. Delicious pho sure!
Sanur Indonesian and Malaysian
Sanur in Chinatown
I was in desperate need of company after a couple weeks of not seeing any friends. Diana and I were going to have dinner with Kai, a guy. I told him that we were going to take him to Alice’s Teacup and he said that was fine with him! We couldn’t do that to him in good conscience, though. We ended up at Sanur in Chinatown where the food is good and cheap. You have to go downstairs to be seated. We ate family style, of course. We had seafood soup (hot and sour), curried beef with potatoes, Yang Chow fried rice, Roti Canai, and Mee Rebus, which is a spicy noodle dish with vegetables, egg, and potatoes. Kai is a chef and gave it a positive review. Well, he picked the restaurant so he’d better give it a good review! It was a highly satisfying dinner for the palette as well as the fuel tank.
Curry Beef, Yang Chow Fried Rice, Roti Canai
Soup and Mee Rebus
