NYC - Midtown - Liberty Deli and Pizzeria

For convenience, I have been going to Liberty Deli and Pizzeria which is few steps away from my job, tried their hot food and they are actually quite good. The beef brisket and the beans & rice were exceptionally tasty ... yummers! Pricing is reasonable, good portion, they even include a bun and salad on the side for just $7.50!

Included with the hot food platter

Beef Brisket with Beans & Rice and Vegetables

Roast Chicken with Shell Pasta in Alfredo Sauce and Vegetables

Honey Spiced Chicken with Rice and Vegetables

Crabmeat Salad Wrap

Teriyaki Chicken with Yellow Rice and Vegetables
Beef over Noodles

Tabasco Chicken over Rice & Vegetables

NYC - Bronx - New China

Deep Fried Fish with plain Fried Rice from our nearby Chinese takeout. We been having this for many years, only thing is that sometimes there are small bones and that sure irritates me big time.

New China
3035, Third Avenue
(corner of 156 st)
Bronx, NY10455
Tel: 718-2923309

My Cooking - Baked Whiting Fish & Flavored Rice

Got tired of always deep frying the Whiting Fish so today I just seasoned them up and tossed them in the oven, tasted so good that I wanted to slap myself silly ... hahaha. Made flavored rice with it, the family enjoyed themselves so much so I'm happpy.

My Cooking - Chicken Drumsticks

Dinner for today is roasted chicken drumsticks with Broccoli & Cheddar flavored rice, finger lickin good!

Seasonings used for the drumsticks, marinate then throw in the oven.


After 40 mins @450F, yummilicious!


Broccoli & Cheddar Flavored Rice - Just add one box with 2 cups of water into the rice cooker, easy as ABC.

My Cooking - Chicken Fried Rice

Today so sian to cook again so I decided to make chicken fried rice since I have not made it for ages ... heh heh, at least the family enjoyed it so I am happy.

My Cooking - Lazy Day Chili Con Carne

Being a dreary Wednesday since it was raining from early morning, I was in the lazy mood and didn't feel like cooking much so I throw together minced beef, bakes beans, chopped tomatos, onions and lots of garlic and made enough Chili Con Carne for today and tomorrow! YAY! This is one of the first few dishes I learned from the hubby when I first moved to NYC, of course I am a much better cook than him now ... hee hee!

My Cooking - Yet another boring & simple meal ...

I have to say, Chicken rice does goes good with anything ... heh heh, all I needed to do was add the Hainanese Chicken Rice Mix to the rice for cooking in the rice cooker, chopped up some lettuce, pan fried the Perdue Tomato Basil marinated Boneless Chicken Breasts and dinner was ready really quick.

NYC - Chinatown - YUMMY NOODLES

No. 90 - Beef Brisket Lo Mein




No. 49 - Claypot rice with mince meat & preserved cabbage (check out the yummy burnt rice)

Whenever I want some claypot rice and good wonton noodle, I would go to Yummy Noodles at NYC Chinatown. I like the claypot rice very much especially the burnt rice on the bottom, I have to do alot of digging and scrapping to get there but it's worth it ... , so crispy and crunchy, YUMMY! They have very good and tasty wonton too, best so far that I have found in NYC. Their roast meat and congee are not bad but I would rather go to Hon Wong for that.

Yummy Noodles

48 Bowery,

New York 10013

Btwn Bayard & Canal St

Tel: 212-374-1327

Crabby

This dish I tried from a Taiwanese restaurant in Flushing, NY. They steamed the crab on a bed of glutinuous rice which was quite delicious.

My Cooking - Hainanese Chicken Rice Mix

So good, so yummy!

Singapore - Mee Siam米暹, Lontong & Curry puff 咖喱卜

Mee Siam, Lontong & Curry puff

Old Chang Kee curry puff

A1 Curry puff

Being so far from home sweet home which is good old Singapore 新加坡, I can only salivate 流口水 when I see this pic of mee siam 米暹, lontong and curry puff 咖喱卜 ... drool drool. KT and I tried the lontong at one of the NY chinatown's malaysian restaurant and trust me we were NOT impressed at all.

Mee Siam 米暹 - which means "Siamese noodle", is a dish of thin rice noodles (vermicelli) in spicy, sweet and sour light gravy. It is one of the popular one-dish meal in Singapore. A "dry" version, which is essentially stir-frying the rice noodles with the same spices used in the "gravy" version, are also popular among the Chinese in Singapore.

Originally a Thai dish, it became a Nyonya specialty that is now prepared by Indians, Malays as well as Chinese stalls in Singapore with slight variation in ingredients. It is served with salted soy beans, dried bean curd 豆干, boiled egg鸡蛋and tamarind, garnished with spring onions and Chinese chives.

Lontong - Traditionally, the rice is rolled and compressed in banana leaves, as seen above. It is also known as Nasi Impit [also spelt Nasi Himpit]. In certain places, Lontong is a dish itself - where the rice roll is cut up into bite-sized pieces and served in a coconut vegetable stew [similar to Sayur Lodeh], and topped with sambal and toasted coconut [kerisik]. However, Lontong is the term most familiar internationally referring the Rice Roll only.

Curry puff 咖喱卜 - Malaysian, Thai, and Singaporean snack which is of Malay origin. It is a small pie consisting of specialised curry with chicken and potatoes in a deep-fried pastry shell. The curry is especially thick and rich to prevent itself from running.

This snack is found at many stores, especially at Malay food stalls. The Malay version of this snack is known as epok-epok which is smaller than the curry puff. Other varies of the epok epok that is filled without chicken and half a boiled egg and an alternative is canned sardines. Curry puffs are also sold by Chinese stalls throughout the island.

Some of the more renowned curry puff includes A1 Curry Puff and Old Chang Kee. Polar Puffs and Cakes introduced the curry puff with western puff pastry, which has a different taste and shape. This version of the curry puff can be found also at Delifrance in Singapore as Curry Chicken Feuillette. Other puff snacks modelled on the curry puff concept have also been introduced. For example, A1 Curry Puff also sells puffs with sardine, yam, durian, corn and even custard filling.

Singapore - Indian Rice stall at Orchard Towers

Indian Rice stall at Orchard Tower
Originally uploaded by seraphim1970.

This is my fave indian rice stall in Singapore. Ignore the fact that they call Orchard Towers the 'pick up mall' or one of the 'Legal Red Light Districts', they do have good food at the basement food court.