When we finally received the black lentils, we were disappointed in the thin, watery dish that arrived, instead of the thick, creamy and buttery version that puts this dish on the map.
It is cooked in the balti – the thin steel dish from which it takes its name – over a gas flame, then served in the balti and eaten using naan bread to mop up the juices.
Cucumbers tossed with a vinaigrette can be ordinary, but if you slice the cucumbers paper-thin, the dish is memorable.
Though the pasta might have been a bit thinner, the dish was refinement itself: three large ravioli filled with flaked lobster meat and masked with a lobster-based sauce the same white-gold color as the pasta.
For those who prefer to stay inside for a picnic on the floor, there are "paper plates," designed by Virginia Sin, that are actually made of a combination of porcelain slip and shredded paper plates, which creates very thin porcelain dishes.
Use a mandoline, if you have one, to slice the onion and fennel, because you want them really thin for this dish.
How has the best-selling author of Naturally Thin and Skinnygirl Dish bounced back so soon?
He proved that point at a Central Command briefing in Doha, Qatar, in the Iraq war by asking why any self-respecting reporter would hang around for the thin gruel being dished up.
But even one of the region's most humble dishes — thin and floppy sheets of tofu, stir-fried with thick slices of medium-hot green chilies — here has the addictive char-flavor "breath" of the wok that keeps you plunging your chopsticks in for more.
Vietnamese: Sao Mai The Asian food I crave the most frequently is Vietnamese--with its fresh, vegetable- heavy dishes, thin luscious noodles, and grilled meat and fish.
