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Hahahah. In this case it’s simple food packed with flavor. Chickpeas and bread, no preservatives. It’s cheap because the shop is in Richmond Hill. Nothing fancy, they have dozens of other things too like goat and oxtail lol.
I’ve never had bomb Italian noodles in NYC. The reason why is I am not a foodie and I have not time to just try tons of subpar places trying to find what is best.
If you go to Whole Foods or Trader Joes, and make it at home, it’s basically good enough as far as I know. Plus a $8 bottle of red and toast some garlic bread. At home.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not cheap either because I appreciate nice experiences. But I am not going to experiment and spend $2,000 worth of restaurant receipts just to find some diamond in the rough.
A bowl of noodles, pasta sauce, piece of nice cheese and bottle of wine should be $30 grocery bill for two people at home. That includes maybe a few specialty ingredients from an Italian market:
I’ve never had bomb Italian noodles in NYC. The reason why is I am not a foodie and I have not time to just try tons of subpar places trying to find what is best.
If you go to Whole Foods or Trader Joes, and make it at home, it’s basically good enough as far as I know. Plus a $8 bottle of red and toast some garlic bread. At home.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not cheap either because I appreciate nice experiences. But I am not going to experiment and spend $2,000 worth of restaurant receipts just to find some diamond in the rough.
A bowl of noodles, pasta sauce, piece of nice cheese and bottle of wine should be $30 grocery bill for two people at home. That includes maybe a few specialty ingredients from an Italian market:
Italian food is overrated but if you told Italians, you called pasta/spaghetti, "noodles", they'd get their grandma to curse you out.
The best Italian food I had was in Italy but the 2 best pasta dishes ( caccio e pepe and carbonara ) are very easy to make of you can source quality ingredients. Go to a place like D. Coluccio & Sons
In Dyker and you can make a pasta dish better than any restaurant in NYC for about $30.
I still haven't recovered from the closing of Prosperity Dumplings in Chinatown.
True story, as far as hot food goes I know more than a few reliable and non pretentious restaurants in Chinatown that are honestly great. I specifically tried to avoid this topic not draw much attention to it but Chinatown basically takes the cake as far as hot food goes. If they are in the window brewing broth up its probably bomb food. Plus the Chinese butcher shops.
But I’d be at my spot and it keeps getting more and more expensive. Some of my spots are straight up nice customer service and non pretentious, solid. Nice portions. But it is getting expensive.
The prices in China compared to Chinatown (Manhattan) are ten fold.
What are some of the foods you would not be able to live without if you moved.
For me it would be pizza ( new park in Howard Beach), pastrami, and some of the Soviet food I grew up on which are non existent outside of NYC and some of the other bigger cities.
Maybe few Thai places I really like. PÃo PÃo chicken probably also would be dearly missed.
I love Pio Pio, and the Peruvian chicken places I've tried elsewhere have simply not compared. The Matador combo there is always my go to.
I will say that, living in Honolulu, the pizza is only average at best, but it's not one of those things that I truly crave for to make much of a difference, though every now and then I do get a real craving for a good slice.
For me--and acknowledging that I can get this elsewhere, too, but I write about it here as I grew up eating it in NYC--I've been longing for good West African, good Indian, and a nice hero/sub. Those are some things that I try to find whenever I'm back on the mainland, and particularly back in NYC.
Well you won't get a chance to anymore in all it's original glory. Once Dominic passed away so did the magic.
Wow, you know I didn't realize that he passed! I haven't had their Di Fara's pizza since before his death apparently, but my father used to buy boxes worth (cost a pretty penny!) and we always loved it.
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