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Description: Pretty good shanghainese food, although at midtown manhattan prices. My favorite dishes are the Yan Du Xian (salted pork & bamboo soup), Baby Eel with Scallion & Ginger Sauce, and Little Alley Lion’s Head.
Description: This place is primarily a bar but by far the most memorable thing I had here was the Ushi-Wasa: raw marbled Angus chuck tail flap tossed in tempranillo-soy sauce blend, served with leek and wasabi stem. Eating this is like playing russian roulette some of the pieces will just make steam come out of your nose from the wasabi. Super super tasty though, and a great snack for drinking.
Description: Great detroit-style thick crust pizza. I'm a fan of thicker crust in general, and the crust here is wild: it's super crunchy. The pizza itself is also very tasty, although they go a bit light on the cheese.
Description: I think the hotboi slice here is my favorite slice in all of new york - I like to get it sicilian style but they also have normal slices. So tasty and they do a good job of getting enough sweetness with honey with the spice from the jalapeño.
Description: These empanadas are cracked and they have a million different flavors so you could come back over and over. There's multiple locations so I'd look for which one is closest to your location. Some person favorites are reggaeton (Caribbean roast pork, rice, peas), el toro (Jamaican braised oxtail, onion, carrot, thyme), and a traditional ground beef.
Description: The full lazy-susan chinese banquet experience. Come with a party of like 10 people and order a ton of dishes, everything is good and it's a great atmosphere to eat. Some personal favorites are Squid Salted Pepper, the Peking Duck, and Liang Mian Huang (two-faced pan-fried noodles).
Description: Italian beef was popularized by Hulu's "The Bear" (I had never heard of it until then), and it's absolutely cracked. Allegedly this isn't as good as the ones in Chicago but it's still pretty friggin' tasty - I suggest getting it dipped. They also have Italian beef pizza which is just wildly decadent: they put the beef on top of a pizza. Crazy stuff.
Description: Great sichuan food, great to share with a group. My favorite highlights are the Husband and Wife Special (Sliced beef & tripe seasoned with chili-peanut sauce), Chungking Spicy Chicken, and Spicy Cumin Lamb. I also got some green beer here which was pretty wild. I used to prefer Chili in midtown, which sort of comes from the same chefs (there's some drama involving a covid mutiny you can read about online), but they've reduced portion sizes.
Description: The highlights here are definitely the namesake, the Lysee (Korean Toasted Brown rice mousse with caramel, Elliot Pecan Sablé, Praliné), as well as the Corn, which literally looks like a corn but is a pasty made of corn mousse. The first floor is a dining area that you need to reserve and the second room can best be described as a showroom for the sweets: it's an experience to walk through all the insanely pretty desserts.
Description: A japanese restaurant which specializes in yakitori but also has a wide variety of other options. Every chicken skewer we got here was absolutely cracked, but make sure to go early because they run out of certain parts of the chicken later in service. Highlights for me were all the chicken skewers, the tori liver paté, and the scallop uni carpaccio. They also have a fun cocktail menu, a great place to go on a date or share some drinks over food with friends.
Description: Absolutely mega hot spicy thai food. Everything is delicious and mega hot: we liked the fried tuermeric sea bream and some beef dish that I don't exactly remember except it was hot and tasty.
Description: This spot is a classic, but the only thing I've ever ordered here is the basque cheesecake and it is absolutely cracked. I think it's the best cheesecake I've ever had in my life - just enough burn to be crispy and so delicious on the inside.
Description: A family-owned and operated business, feels very homey and friendly inside but also like the people making the sandwiches know what they're doing. They have a great selection of huge sandwiches here, and it's right by the new york botanical garden where you can go picnic in the flowers.
Description: Great casual thai food for groups, but the main attraction here is the cheap margarita. Order glasses they're cheaper per ml than the pitchers! I guarantee if you come here with the homies you will have a good time.
Description: Awesome night market that's open in the summer, a huge selection of maybe half Asian half Latin-American/African food. It's pretty cheap as well (way cheaper than smorgasborg), I would come with a group, divide and conquer the lines (try to come before 630 to avoid super long wait times), bring a picnic blanket, and try all the food everybody brings together.
Description: Super cool Egyptian restaurant where they have all the seafood out on a counter, you pick it yourself, and then they go cook it for you. Highlights for us were the calimari, whole fish, and shrimp in garlic lemon sauce (I did not realize shrimp could taste that good). Also the Babaganoush and Eggplant mesa'a'ah were absolutely insane - I wouldn't call myself an eggplant enjoyer but both were so good.
Description: Happy hour $1 oysters which are tasty (sometimes you gotta watch out for the happy hour oysters but these are good!). Tasty cocktails and good tots as well. More places should do tots as an option I think they're kind of a GOATed way to consume potatoes.
Description: The congee here is incredible - we tried three different ones and they were all delicious. Perfect after a night spent drinking. Pork and preserved egg is a classic and was my favorite, but they have tons of different variations to choose from.
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