There is a tempura-salad hand roll built around a soft and flavorful hunk of fried sweet potato, with greens to balance its meatiness and a ginger-yuzu dressing zipping along the top, a melody to remember.
Never mind the water, though; head straight to the humble food stalls and taste what folks flock for: bake-and-shark -- a hunk of fried, breaded shark tucked inside a doughnut-like bun, dripping with mouthwatering condiments.
There were apple cores and large hunks of fried chicken on the sidewalk near my feet.
"This is nice rice," she said, before selecting from a dozen or so side dishes, which ranged from glistening hunks of fried chicken to paru goreng, deep-fried beef lungs coated in ginger, shallots and shredded lemon grass.
During the lunch rush here on Friday, girls with mascara smeared from a long night out ordered plates of masas de puerco frita, fist-size hunks of fried pork served on a massive platter with thick wedges of lime and slivers of onion.
Diners might start with a hefty grilled portobello mushroom cap on a bed of greens, a hunk of warm fried goat cheese poised at the edge of the cap.
I couldn't figure out how this awesome record cover could have such a hunk of southern-fried shit inside.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten was in the kitchen, happily taking his chopsticks to hunks of freshly fried chicken.
Open all day Forget trawling Colaba's tourist spots for fry-ups and cereal, and try breakfast the way the locals do it – with a plate of fried minced meat and hunks of bread to mop it up.
Both started serving gigantic hunks of meat -- fried chickens, suckling pigs, broad swaths of entire cows -- for tables of four or more, and quickly attracted imitators at many of their peer restaurants around the city.
In this video, shot by the photographer Jeff Minton, you can see them assemble one of their specialties: a version of the Hawaiian surfer dish loco moco, which includes Anson Mills rice, a Niman Ranch hamburger patty, a hunk of Spam, and, on top, a fried quail's egg.
