A) I love that Jackie started our Sunday thread. We miss you!! B) Not sure I can handle the Coney Island anymore. I just want to eat a hot dog real bad. C) Who's in this weekend? And what shall we eat?
A) yes B) i'd love to go back, since i'm jonesing for my ortho fill, given that school's out for summer. But oh well... C)I'm in!
I know Peter's away. Sara? Nathan?
It is, according to Pete, our two year anniversary! Sad that we won't all be together. So do we go back to Bogota in tribute? Do something unconventional? Just pick another restaurant? It actually might be eat-outside-able on Sunday, so we should keep that in mind.
In! Would love to eat outside, so let's think about places (I know I'm crap at that but I'll keep thinking). Hey, what's everyone doing for July 4? Love Coney and expect to go again.
Also: do we like this? "Janeane Garofalo should get some laughs when she performs stand-up Tuesday night at Union Hall in Park Slope."
I'm in. Eating outside would be good unless it rains... but surely, SURELY it won't do that? I feel like the weather has been making me a little crazy, honestly.
I still have concrete ideas though the thought of something dim-sumy or dumplingy w beer is compelling to me at the moment. But maybe that's cause I'm fasting till noon for my physical and just read an article abt Chinese food in a mag. Will be more specific soon. Now it looks marginal for rain on sunday.
I have absorbed Claudia's post and have come up with an idea, but I've never been there.
Not Chinese, but def Asian: Mai in Boerum Hill
Opened by chef Daniel Wu, veteran of the West Village's popular Café Asean, Mai is a boon for the Asian-food-aficionados of Boerum Hill. With its upscale, affordable menu, wall of exposed brick hung with mirrors, and a spacious garden out back, Mai possesses all the physical prerequisites for a successful Brooklyn restaurant. Better still, the food at Mai, drawn from South East Asia, is quite good. Seafood dishes like squid stuffed with shrimp, mushrooms, and glass noodles gets zip from a streak of tart tamarind sauce; briny, delicate scallop dumplings come with an extraordinarily vibrant, lime-spiked soy-ginger sauce. Mee goreng, a savory heap of egg noodles, tofu, and shrimp, should oust the default (and often saccharine) pad Thai from its exalted place. Despite intriguing ingredients, Thai red curry with short ribs and pumpkin is ho-hum. Stick with seafood: Sea bass steamed with ginger in a banana leaf is heavenly dunked into its intensely aromatic dipping sauce featuring calamondi, a tart fruit popular in Southeast Asia that smells of tangerine peel. — JJ Goode
Recommended Dishes Muc nuong, $6.50; wo teet, $6.25; mee goreng, $9.25; ca nuong, $9.50
Does Mai have outdoor seating? Can Dominick come? I had some thoughts on Vanderbilt but Mai sounds great if outdoors. Looks like it may be really nice out!
9 comments:
A) I love that Jackie started our Sunday thread. We miss you!!
B) Not sure I can handle the Coney Island anymore. I just want to eat a hot dog real bad.
C) Who's in this weekend? And what shall we eat?
Love to you all!
A) yes
B) i'd love to go back, since i'm jonesing for my ortho fill, given that school's out for summer. But oh well...
C)I'm in!
I know Peter's away. Sara? Nathan?
It is, according to Pete, our two year anniversary! Sad that we won't all be together. So do we go back to Bogota in tribute? Do something unconventional? Just pick another restaurant? It actually might be eat-outside-able on Sunday, so we should keep that in mind.
In! Would love to eat outside, so let's think about places (I know I'm crap at that but I'll keep thinking). Hey, what's everyone doing for July 4? Love Coney and expect to go again.
Also: do we like this?
"Janeane Garofalo should get some laughs when she performs stand-up Tuesday night at Union Hall in Park Slope."
I'm in. Eating outside would be good unless it rains... but surely, SURELY it won't do that? I feel like the weather has been making me a little crazy, honestly.
I still have concrete ideas though the thought of something dim-sumy or dumplingy w beer is compelling to me at the moment. But maybe that's cause I'm fasting till noon for my physical and just read an article abt Chinese food in a mag. Will be more specific soon. Now it looks marginal for rain on sunday.
I have absorbed Claudia's post and have come up with an idea, but I've never been there.
Not Chinese, but def Asian: Mai in Boerum Hill
Opened by chef Daniel Wu, veteran of the West Village's popular Café Asean, Mai is a boon for the Asian-food-aficionados of Boerum Hill. With its upscale, affordable menu, wall of exposed brick hung with mirrors, and a spacious garden out back, Mai possesses all the physical prerequisites for a successful Brooklyn restaurant. Better still, the food at Mai, drawn from South East Asia, is quite good. Seafood dishes like squid stuffed with shrimp, mushrooms, and glass noodles gets zip from a streak of tart tamarind sauce; briny, delicate scallop dumplings come with an extraordinarily vibrant, lime-spiked soy-ginger sauce. Mee goreng, a savory heap of egg noodles, tofu, and shrimp, should oust the default (and often saccharine) pad Thai from its exalted place. Despite intriguing ingredients, Thai red curry with short ribs and pumpkin is ho-hum. Stick with seafood: Sea bass steamed with ginger in a banana leaf is heavenly dunked into its intensely aromatic dipping sauce featuring calamondi, a tart fruit popular in Southeast Asia that smells of tangerine peel. — JJ Goode
Recommended Dishes
Muc nuong, $6.50; wo teet, $6.25; mee goreng, $9.25; ca nuong, $9.50
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/mai/
that sounds awesome.
Yes a million times yes
Does Mai have outdoor seating? Can Dominick come? I had some thoughts on Vanderbilt but Mai sounds great if outdoors. Looks like it may be really nice out!
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