Certain foods are emblematic of New York: a thin pizza slice with grease enough to soak through a paper plate, a hot dog bursting with condiments, and the impossible-to-recreate New York bagel.
You'll want to have a relatively circular formation about 10 inches (25.4 cm) across, and about the thickness of a thin pizza crust, or the fabric of a standard t-shirt.
Order a lahmacun ($3), and the cook begins a precise series of movements, twisting and turning the dough until it's a flat, thin pizza about 15 inches in diameter.
But a Gaziantep native who follows me on Twitter, Bora Karaman, set me straight, inviting me to his favorite place for katmer, the thinnest of pastry doused in oil, stretched wide like a microscopically thin pizza, then wrapped around pistachios and cream and baked.
My colleague River Donaghey brought Krasdale brand toilet paper to my home and the low quality of the toilet paper led me to imagine a series of scratchy, thin pizza bagels.
Begin with a thin, crusted pizza with runny, slightly salty mozzarella, basil and pulpy tomatoes.
The unlikely, though intriguing fruit and cheese combination atop a thin, delicate pizza crust worked surprisingly well.
The tzatsiki that came with the safayh lahma — a thin baked pizza dough topped with chopped lamb — brought a cool, sharp contrast to the sweet meat that added a lot to the appetizer's overall taste.
And fans of L'Actuel will be even happier to know that the classic tarte flambée, a thin Alsatian pizza smeared with crème fraîche and dotted with smoked bacon and onions, has staged a comeback, after being dropped from the flambée list.
The designer retained many of the original features of this colonial house, including the wooden stairwell that curls up to the second floor where you can sip a glass of white wine and nibble a thin crust pizza topped with rare tuna and anchovies, or another with salmon, arugula and capers.
Choose a thin crust pizza, rather than a deep dish.
