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OMGVBFLOL posted:yeah dude it’s not the end of the world. go to the grocery store and buy two packages of ramen, eggs, one meat, and two vegetables I go into Winnipeg a couple times per month, but the opportunity cost is such that I want to make sure that I'm going somewhere that will be good. The last highly-rated one I went to was mediocre, and my local recommendations network just kinda went "eeehhh haha that was the best one... yeah we know." When you say "buy two packages of ramen..." that's pretty much what they were serving, with a commercial-tasting broth, but with a whole bunch of not-terrible-but-not-great extras (and hard boiled eggs!). The place is basically a weeb paradise, right down to French maid waifus serving the food. I want to spend my money somewhere that the stock is slow cooked from pork bones and other good stuff with hand made noodles and pork belly, and that I don't feel as if I'm exploiting Asian immigrants. Though what brand of grocery store ramen do you buy? I'm in a semi-rural location so our international grocery supply is pretty weak, but I can do some searching. (memmi, eh?) CommonShore fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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CommonShore posted:French maid waifus serving the food yikes i’m pretty easygoing with most things food related but that’s bad wrt brands, I’ve never bothered with anything other than maruchan or top because if there’s anything else in the grocery store it’s usually like $2/packet and fuuuck that
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In the Boston area, I'm spoiled by good Asian markets of all kinds. Like, I was planning on using baking soda in the noodles, but GoWithChrist went and bought a bottle of Koon Chun lye water. It's nice to be able to just go buy real deal ingredients. Oh and Kam Man has really good fresh ramen noodles in the fridge section. 
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OMGVBFLOL posted:yikes Ugh maruchan and top ramen have such bad noodles though. A pack of Nong Shim Shin ramyun has a lot thicker and chewier noodles and a flavor pack that isn't just msg. It's also like $1.50 at most. Also, I like to cook the noodles for like 2 minutes and let em cool for a bit in the bowl while I simmer the meat and veggies for a bit in the broth. This keeps the noodles from over cooking. Instant noodles don't have to be the stereotypical gross poor college food.
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yeah there's much better than maruchan. Nissin Demae tonkotsu with black garlic oil is great, Nongshim shin ramyun black, Nissin Raoh, Miyojo chukazanmai. Ajisen sells fresh noodle ramen packs here. or get this stuff: https://www.foodbeast.com/news/michelin-star-cup-noodles/ I actually make like garnish packs to go with my ramen so it's super easy to make fancier at work. Shredded, blanched cabbage, a few slices of homemade chashu, some fishcake slices, green onion, all tightly wrapped in a sandwich bag in my chest freezer. So all I need to do is grab a bag and a pack of ramen for a quick lunch at work. GrAviTy84 fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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I recognize those packages! The red ones are actually pretty good. I actually do make ramen or similar noodle soups at home quite often - it's my usual "I have 20 minutes to make something and eat it before leaving" dinner. I'll typically use only half of the flavour pack for the broth and then add some oyster sauce or something to fill it out, throw whatever leftovers I have on top, and soft poach an egg in the broth as the noodles cook. It's not a bad fast dinner when I'm not in the mood for grilled cheese.
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There are 3 or four major brush fires going on around the northern edges of Los Angeles, including one near my house, and last night one just popped up around the Getty Museums. https://twitter.com/WLV_investor/status/938410022538682368 I discovered that my windows have a draft because the nearby fire caused hellish winds and now my bedroom is covered in a thin film of soot. Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Dec 6, 2017 |
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Steve Yun posted:There are 3 or four major brush fires going on around the northern edges of Los Angeles, including one near my house, and last night one just popped up around the Getty Museums. glad you're alright. I've been pinging you and keht all day and havent heard from either of you.
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My cousin is a disaster preparedness/recovery expert and she posted today that she recently toured the Getty and they have state-of-the-art fire safety measures. The likelihood that any of the art will be damaged is very low. Of course, this is cold comfort to the people who are losing their homes, but at least that particular loss will be prevented. Stay safe all of you out there.
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hey I swear there's a vegas thread but cannae find it goin there right before xmas, debating what restaurants to hit. jose andres "e" one any good? those wildfires are insane :/ be safe man
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mindphlux posted:hey I swear there's a vegas thread but cannae find it Tooooons of good ones. You need to pm me about this fyi.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Tooooons of good ones. You need to pm me about this fyi. yeah, would love to chat! I don't have plat for various reasons (mostly getting randomly banned all the time), any other way we could connect? discord, skype, passing notes, etc? I can do IRC I guess if you're part of that crowd
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You all should relocate to the South Bay. We don't burn down or mudslide around here. Except PV.
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I made some crappy beef stew in my Instant Pot last night (basically diced onions, carrots, celery, cubed chuck shoulder, beef stock, red wine, and some cloves and bay leaves) and ended up adding some dark chocolate at the end while reducing it. It actually had a rather interesting depth, I might do it again.
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boeuf bourguignon au chocolat? I usually do it without chocolate, just some bacon and thyme on the base part you mentioned. Should have mushrooms but I'm never true to style either. Funny thing is if you cut and paste into a search bar "boeuf bourguignon au chocolat" you'll get heaps of results in French, so it's been done before. I always say learn the native language dish names you'll get lots of recipes to help. Worked for me with euro stews, Italian pasta, Indian veg etc E: though my French sucks. No idea if I should be using au, et or avec. Also merde, this is not the pressure cooker thread anyway. Fo3 fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Dec 8, 2017 |
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mindphlux posted:hey I swear there's a vegas thread but cannae find it Bazaar Meats gets most of the Andres press. It's expensive as gently caress though, you'll probably get better value at E. Chada Street for smallish plates of the best Thai food ever. Chada Thai and Wine for a slightly more refined style of the best Thai food ever. Both have incredibly good, incredibly affordable wine lists. Lotus of Siam's roof literally collapsed in September, but they're opening a new location on Monday supposedly. Their food is almost as good as ever, still world class. Raku for Japanese. Get the omakase. Best homemade tofu ever. Weekend brunch at Raku Sweets, it's the best brunch value in town. Alternately, go there after Raku. Hit the newly-opened (in August) Atomic Kitchen, next to Atomic Liquors which happens to be the best bar in town. Both locations have a cocktail program and craft beer program, with no duplicates. Kitchen's cocktails do interesting things with grappa, fino sherry, wine-based amaro, etc. Old Atomic's goes more to the old school with a twist. Kitchen's food is outrageously good. Also downtown: Carson Kitchen (get the fried chicken skins with smoked honey, and anything brassica on the menu); Evel Pie for quick, relatively cheap, relatively good pizza; Eat for an amazing breakfast service. Oak and Ivy for whisk(e)y cocktails, especially Manhattans. Frankie's Tiki Lounge for tiki drinks or to just lose twelve hours for twenty bucks or so. Herbs and Rye if you don't mind a packed venue for historic cocktails from all eras. On-Strip, most of the places in the Cosmopolitan are excellent but can be pricey as hell. The perennial favorites of anything Robouchon, Picasso, etc. are still as good as always. I'd recommend avoiding Batali properties - the food is good, but the prices are insane even for the Strip, especially on the wine list. We're a bit weak on Middle Eastern, but most other food cultures are pretty well represented. Anything you want in particular?
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bartolimu posted:Bazaar Meats gets most of the Andres press. It's expensive as gently caress though, you'll probably get better value at E. This makes me want to visit Vegas on just an eating trip (gambling and hookers aren't really my thing).
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therattle posted:This makes me want to visit Vegas on just an eating trip (gambling and hookers aren't really my thing). I despise everything about vegas otherwise, but I've made several trips just for food. A lot of the hotels and restaurants are even fairly cheap, since they assume you'll just drink and/or gamble the rest away.
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Herbs and Rye, always. Last time I went to Frankie’s my shoes stuck to the carpet.
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bloody ghost titty posted:Herbs and Rye, always. Last time I went to Frankie’s my shoes stuck to the carpet. Happened to me at frankies as well a couple of weeks ago. I most go to golden tiki now. Mundphlux I'll figure something out.
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Golden Tiki is nice (especially due to its proximity to Chada Street), but Frankie's will always have my heart for being one of the last vestiges of Old Vegas still running.therattle posted:This makes me want to visit Vegas on just an eating trip (gambling and hookers aren't really my thing). Hookers aren't a (legal) thing here either, you have to go across the county line for that. But you should definitely visit for food. In the '90s casinos realized celebrity chefs could bring in more revenue. In the early 2000s the room chefs for those restaurants mostly moved off-Strip and opened their own places to do more interesting (and more affordable) stuff - e.g. the chef at Sen of Japan, a fantastic place that's a close second to Raku, opened up Nobu in the Hard Rock. Now we've got a talented crew of local chefs who grew up cooking in the above places (Carson Kitchen was started by one), along with the occasional maverick coming to town to do interesting things. Food logistics in this city are kind of ridiculous, so costs on some things are way lower than other inland areas. Other places I've remembered that may be of interest: The Goodwich. Super cheap, excellent sandwiches. The vegetarian options are usually the best things on the menu, although they don't do anything bad. They just got a booze license so they'll be serving beer and wine soon. Sparrow+Wolf. Quite expensive for a Chinatown restaurant. They do crazy-rear end stuff with premium ingredients. One of the most unique restaurants in town. That's where Atomic Kitchen's chef came from, and partly why their menu is insanely good too. Cafe Mayakovsky. In the former Liberace Square, where the Liberace Museum was until it closed years ago. Close to the Pinball Hall of Fame, which I recommend to everyone because it's great. Very good mostly-rural Russian food. Homemade kvas. Tons of delicious dumplings. An amazing herring/beet/potato/egg salad. They've got caviar and tons of vodka too, if that's your thing. But definitely get the kvas.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Happened to me at frankies as well a couple of weeks ago. I most go to golden tiki now. To clarify: that was an endorsement. I found myself there around 430am on a Thursday, and got a drat decent daiquiri. My friend & colleague got a “tangerine speedo” from the list, offered me a sip, and swears I straight up slapped him afterwards. I don’t remember that last part but it does sound perfectly warranted. There was a groove worn into the bar top next to the video poker machine. It was as real as a heart attack.
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thanks for all the suggestions! short listing é and raku for fancy meals, and I guess we'll try to keep it more reasonable the other night we have. is lotus of siam really worth all the press? or any buffets worth a thing? some of these bars sound awesome too. thanks again edit: and yeah if any of y'all local gws vegas folk wanna meet up, we fly in and will probably grab more reasonable food on a schoolnight (wed, 20th), wouldn't mind saying hi to an oldboi or two mindphlux fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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mindphlux posted:is lotus of siam really worth all the press? Their website says they closed because of weather damage
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Yes, they're closed right now. Komol across the parking lot is legit but not worth driving across town for. Raku is seriously super awesome.
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Lotus is absolutely worth all the press. Their food is unique, with a lot of Northern Thai stuff, and their standards are exceptional. And they're opening a new location Monday - check the link I posted. Chada Thai and Wine, and after it Chada Street, are spiritual successors. Their owner is the former wine manager for Lotus. His sister runs the kitchen at Street. The food is different from Lotus - Chada Thai concentrates on a slightly more Frenchified presentation, but mostly with humble ingredients; Street reproduces Thai street food and a few other cherished things. They're very different. Among Lotus, Chada Thai and Chada Street, I think Street is the best. But it's an extremely narrow margin and all three should be on everyone's must-visit lists. For buffets, yeah there are a few that are decent. Caesar's Bacchanale is the most recently renovated, and has incredible variety in a very nice space. I'd recommend either them or the Wicked Spoon at the Cosmopolitan, which was billed as a "foodie buffet" and mostly delivers. They do a lot of small-batch dishes so things don't get stale, and they have stuff like bone marrow and Chinese pork belly on the regular. Other buffets are very much hit or miss. Affordable: Goodwich. They really are amazing. Atomic Kitchen if you mind the menu a bit (get the goddamn harissa carrots holy gently caress). Monta Ramen, two doors down from Raku and IMO the best ramen in town. Zen Japanese Curry, three doors down from Monta, the domain of a near-monomaniacal Japanese chef who has absolutely perfected Japanese curry in its ideal form. (There are seriously six good restaurants in one tiny business park, it's bizarre and wonderful.) Settebello (2 locations), the best place in town for Vera Napoletana pizza; they even fly the flour in from one particular family-owned mill in Italy. Secret Pizza in the Cosmopolitan (New York style, mostly). Get off the up escalator, head toward the comically expensive (but fantastic!) Milos, turn right and go down the anonymous hallway. Yeah it's really that secret. Cugino's Italian Deli for homemade specialties including Sicilian tripe and the only rice pudding I've ever found that's better than my mother's. Homemade mozzarella daily. Eggplant Parmesan to die for. I used to go there so regularly I was on a first-name basis with everyone. Except Ma. She was always Ma. And she makes the tripe and the rice pudding. Cornish Pasty Company, right on the edge of the Arts District. What they make is what they call themselves, and they do it well. Fantastic beer list as well.
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That secret pizza place owned. I stayed at the cosmopolitan several years back on my first trip to las vegas for someone else's prenuptials, and that place saved my dumb drunk-rear end gambled-out life more than once. Thanks for the other less expensive tips, I feel pretty locked and loaded for this go round. <3 Table at Raku secured wed, é booked thurs, and will use one of y'alls less expensive suggestions for fri, assuming my better half and I are still standing after all that. mindphlux fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Raku is awesome. Do the omakase. Edit: Raku, not Raul. Raul may be awesome too, I don’t know him. Flash Gordon Ramsay fucked around with this message at 13:11 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Squashy Nipples posted:OK, good to know... but the broth should be salted before hand, right?
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Quadrupling that raku owns. Get omakase. Protip if you wanna be a cool kid, eat the fish bones. A waitress there saw me doing it and she was like "FINALLY, someone who does it right". also it weirds out the white Bros sitting next to you.
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And if you happen to be out at night and really need something, I would head over to tacos el gordo on Charleston. I always get the crispy tripe and the adobada. Usually a crowd.
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Gonna throw in a mention to Starboard Tack, ran by the same management as Atomic and Atomic Kitchen if I remember right. It's way off the beaten path, but has a great food and drink menu that'll satisfy any time of day - including a surprisingly good rotation of oysters. But otherwise, all the other Vegas goons have hit the best spots in town for food and drinks. Andre's Bistro way out on the westside is a really loving good little French bistro without a lot of fanfare. Sette Bello is the best Neapolitan pie in town, but if anyone local or visiting wants to try my sourdough Neapolitan pizza made from 120 year starter, you hit me up. I pop-up with my oven at markets and downtown events occasionally, but mostly throw parties out of my backyard. EDIT: Throwing in a vote for Taco Y Taco, both locations, but the one on 215/Eastern has a killer little bar and one of the largest collections of mezcal around (or did a while back). And the food is loving bomb, better than El Gordo in my opinion! ogopogo fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Oh yeah, I forgot Starboard Tack. Not the same management as Atomic, but Bryant (the manager, and I think the owner?) used to bartend at Atomic. Before Tack, he ran the briefly-open, perfect amaro bar behind the lovely fondue place Downtown; it closed when the fondue inevitably failed under the weight of its own pomposity and lost the lease. If you go to Starboard Tack, get the fish sauce chicken wings and order a shot of Centerbe. It's a crazy 140-proof herbal thing that's only sold at the Tack as far as I know, and the pairing with fish sauce soaked wings is insanely good. Taco y Taco is sanitized-for-suburban-whites Tacos el Gordo plus a bar offering mostly-sugary cocktails. Yes, they're the largest mezcal client in town and have a lot of good stuff. Yes, their tacos are nearly as good as Tacos el Gordo. Yes, they have a few more things on the menu, like a reasonably okay (but sanitized, nearly unspiced) elote. But a taco there costs twice as much as Gordo and it's hard to find a bartender who knows how to make something not cloyingly sweet. Go to Gordo, then four miles or whatever to Atomic for your mezcal cocktails. You'll pay less and get better of both. bartolimu fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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bartolimu posted:Taco y Taco is sanitized-for-suburban-whites Tacos el Gordo plus a bar offering mostly-sugary cocktails. Yes, they're the largest mezcal client in town and have a lot of good stuff. Yes, their tacos are nearly as good as Tacos el Gordo. Yes, they have a few more things on the menu, like a reasonably okay (but sanitized, nearly unspiced) elote. But a taco there costs twice as much as Gordo and it's hard to find a bartender who knows how to make something not cloyingly sweet. Go to Gordo, then four miles or whatever to Atomic for your mezcal cocktails. You'll pay less and get better of both. That's totally fair. Maybe I've been lucky with my bartenders, especially when Eddie was there running things, but never have had a sugary lovely suburban drink there, though I never ordered off their drink menu. The location is brutal, no doubt about it. The original on Trop/Pecos is still my favorite, and that one feels exactly the same as Tacos El Gordo to me. Every time I go into El Gordo, it's been a fairly slapdash taco that hits all the same goodness spots that Taco Y does. To be fair, I haven't been to Taco Y in a while, as I live within spitting distance of Tacos El Gordo downtown, so yeah of course it's great but I have great memories of Eddie mixing me stellar drinks and plowing tacos. Time to get drunk as hell and do a 1am El Gordo run. Hands down best taco I've ever had in Vegas was at 8am from Taqueria El Beun Pastor on LVB and Bonanza. That's the poo poo right there. Love Atomic, but was there nearly every night for a few months straight this fall so I've been trying to bounce around more to different spots. But I can't help but to crawl back to the regular joints that are always good. I was bummed I was only able to hit the Sour Saturday for 30 mins, so many great loving beers around to try.
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Also, hidden treasure, but the best chicken wings in town are at stake out. 100% truth and wisdom. The amount of nights...into mornings I've spent at Stake Out are far too many..
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The Philly cheesesteak at Stake Out is also excellent drunk food. Haven't had the wings there but I'll have to try them soon.ogopogo posted:The original on Trop/Pecos is still my favorite, and that one feels exactly the same as Tacos El Gordo to me. Ah, I've only been to the Henderson location since I live in Hendertucky. That one's probably more yuppified. quote:Love Atomic, but was there nearly every night for a few months straight this fall so I've been trying to bounce around more to different spots. But I can't help but to crawl back to the regular joints that are always good. I was bummed I was only able to hit the Sour Saturday for 30 mins, so many great loving beers around to try. We've almost certainly occupied the same spaces at the same time. I missed Sour Saturday completely as I was on a wine/beer touring trip in SoCal. I was super sad to miss it, but most of my reservations were made by the time Rose set the date. Last time I was there, Kitchen still had some stuff in bottles from the fest, including Black Project for less than list price.
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