This particular open grill had suggested a note in a new dish: grass-fed Sonoran beef cooked sous vide for forty-eight hours, then seared and served with tiny California lentils, potato foam, and white chayote caramelized with Mexican vanilla.
I asked how the menu of the new place will change and they both said it will basically remain the same, but there will be some exciting new salads and a "Consumer's Beef of Choice" dish with grass-fed beef.
"If you're down there trying to look at the people coming across the border, maybe a lot of them are just motivated by economics, and they want a job washing dishes or cutting grass.
The cartons bearing Cingular's ads were traced to Grand Sichuan International Midtown, a restaurant on Ninth Avenue and 50th Street, where the menu includes poetic-sounding dishes like Growing Grass in Spring Must Be Like Green and Green Parrot With a Red Mouth.
A Burmese water festival on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street in Flushing, will feature dishes like lemon grass seafood soup, chicken curry and vegetables with rice noodles.
The menu is divided into categories: specialties like game hen done sweet-and-sour and stuffed with lemon grass; dishes to share, including some from Issan, in northeastern Thailand, like spicy minced catfish salad; and copious one-dish meals involving noodles, including the Vietnamese cha ca la vong.
But dishes with chilies, lemon grass, galangal, coconut, curry spices and funky fermented seafood products like belachan (shrimp paste) are signs that the food isn't just arriving from China.
GARY ROBINS, the consulting chef, who became known for his Asian fusion cooking at Aja and Match, has put together a menu of dishes scented with lemon grass, star anise, mango and miso.
After peeking into kitchens around the country over the past few years I have dozens of versions of chicken, from Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, dishes flavored with lemon grass, sake, fish sauce and cumin-based spice mixes like those made by Badia.
THE FOOD The airline uses consulting chefs like Richard Sandoval, who come up with such dishes as lemon-grass marinated chicken breast with yucca purée and chayote salad served with a citrus sauce.
This was followed by water buffalo stew, thickened with crushed eggplant and flavored with galangal, a spicy forest vine called sakhan and tiny astringent eggplants the size of marbles; minced fish and banana leaf salad; pork sausage flush with lemon grass; and a dish of fried eggplant and minced pork.
