Indonesia

Our 10 Best Restaurants in Elmhurst, Queens

The southern Mexican food is fine at El Jalapeno, but maybe you'd rather go for the opulent nachos regulares, shaped like a sunflower. To look at the neighborhood today, with its bustling commercial strips, tidy frame houses, apartment towers, and plentiful parks, you wouldn't know Elmhurst was fo ... More >>

This Weekend's 5 Best Food Events

Friday, April 19 Wine, Pâté, and Jazz at Clos New York Head down to Soho's new wine bar, Clos, for a tasting of three wines, which the Sommelier will pair with different pâté. Live jazz will play from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m., and guests can reserve a spot for $37 online. 64 Kenmare St.; 212-219-0327

The Quizzical Origins of the Thai Curry Puff

A Thai curry puff as served at Thai Market. You've encountered it in Thai restaurants before, a small braided pastry filled with chicken and potatoes called the curry puff. It's unlike any of the other apps on the menu, which run to papaya salads, tart sausages, steamed dumplings, fish cakes, and ... More >>

How Hollywood Movies Led to Genocide: The Act of Killing at the Toronto Film Festival

Film critic Karina Longworth is reporting from the Toronto International Film Festival this week. The best, most daring and form-defying documentaries in the world right now are being funded by the Danish Film Institute, and so it goes that the nonfiction knockout of TIFF thus far is The Act of Ki ... More >>

Foreign Diplomats Owe New York City $17 Million in Parking Tickets

​As we freak out over possible $16 muffins purchased by the Justice Department -- how could they? Muffins? Muffins aren't even good -- and the overall implosion of the U.S. economy, let us freak out more, about something with some pretty egregious dollar signs. Back in May, Representatives Mic ... More >>

As One Indonesian Family Goes, So Goes the Nation in Position Among the Stars

Daniel Bobis, Missing Long Island Surfer, Found Dead in Indonesia

​Sad news: Daniel Bobis, the 32-year-old Long Island high school math teacher and surf coach who went missing this weekend while surfing in Indonesia, has been found dead. The Facebook page dedicated to alerting attention to the search and rescue efforts has now become a memorial page, with hu ... More >>

Daniel Bobis, Long Beach High Math Teacher, Goes Missing While Surfing in Indonesia

Facebook​Daniel Bobis, a 32-year-old math teacher and surf team coach at Long Beach High, has gone missing while surfing in West Lampung, Indonesia, on Sunday morning. Rachel, Bobis' wife of five years, remains in Indonesia, and says that the U.S. Consulate has "been no help thus far." His boa ... More >>

New York City Loses Yet Another Food Plant; Scientists Create 'Super Wheat'

​Maramount Corp., a Sunset Park food production plant responsible for school lunches and homeless shelter meals around the city, is moving to Pennsylvania, leaving more than 140 workers unemployed. [NY Daily News] McDonald's and Wendy's are among fast-food chains that have added new summer sa ... More >>

Wax Jamboo and Five Other Unusual Fruits and Vegetables at NYC Chinese Supermarkets

​1. Celtuce is an extreme variety of lettuce native to southern China. It's also known as stem lettuce, celery lettuce, asparagus lettuce, wo ju, and kaki-jisha. Though the leaves are edible, the cooked stem is the whole point of the vegetable. In addition to steaming and sauteeing, pickling ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: January 5-11, 2010

Smoking Baby Now Just Boring Old Do-Nothing Baby

​We guess everyone has to grow up sometime. (Sadface.) Two-year-old Ardi Rizdal, or Aldi Suganda, depending on who you ask, had the shockingly awful -- but somehow exceedingly debonair -- habit of dragging on some 40 ciggies per day. But after the Indonesian child-man was forced into governme ... More >>

Deer Prefers Beer (Video)

​While we wait for more information on the Discovery Channel gunman situation...um...there's this: There is a deer in China that, apparently, likes to drink beer. Which is slightly less horrifying than a baby in Indonesia who smokes a pack or 10 a day -- maybe?

Smoking Baby Returns Via Special CBS Investigative Report (Video!)

Just in case you thought the smoking baby (you know, the 2-year-old Sumatran boy with the practiced inhale) was a scam played upon us by video pranksters, CBS News has tracked him down in Indonesia, where they found him -- just before midnight, lit ciggie in hand -- and spent two days witnessing and ... More >>

BP Tries, Tries Again...and Again We Wait

​Good morning! Today in your BP oil spill update: After cutting the pipe at the wellhead (with 20-foot shears), officials have placed a cap over the well to funnel oil to a ship at the surface. But, as usual, "it will be some time before we can confirm that this method will work and to what ... More >>

Bromo Satay House Serves up East Java

Queens now tastes a little more like fermented shrimp paste

New Aperitifs to Hit the U.S. Market; Wine Grapes Warn That the Planet is Heating Up

​If you agree that red wine glasses have big, flat bowls to maximize exposure to air and white wine glasses are narrower to keep the wine cold longer, then you know you don't have to be a snob to buy into fancy glassware. [Salon/Food] Bonal from France and Cocchi Aperitivo Americano from Ital ... More >>

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Taiwanese Stinky Tofu

​It looks so innocuous sitting on the plate, doesn't it? Southeast Asians have their durian, Scandinavians sometimes love lutefisk (especially at Christmastide), but the Taiwanese insist on stinky tofu when it comes to scarfing something really fetid.

Dodge the Sake Bombs at Laut

A fine Malaysian joint hides near Union Square

Off-Putting Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly Explores Minority Identity

Spring Guide: Slurp Through the Recession

Warung Kario's Dutch Treat

Making do with what was available in South America

The Early Word--Danku

Two krokets and a side of mie dan (fried noodles)Danku, a Dutch-Indonesian "all-natural" fast food joint, recently opened its only US outpost on 57th Street. The chain's other location is in Antwerp, Belgium. The menu runs from ordinary paninis and baked goods, to krokets (Dutch croquettes) and Ind ... More >>

Babi Guling--Balinese Pork DIY

The Traveling Omnivore's 20

4 Questions: James Oseland Dreams of Montana

EASTERN EPIDEMIC

A week-long celebration of Asian art

Horoscope

'Global Lens, 2007'

Report: U.S. Should Pay for Genocide in East Timor

Commission blames American-backed Indonesian military

Music

The Gods Must Be Crazy

Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolfowitz

He Bungled Iraq, the Pentagon, and East Timor. Look Out, World Bank—Here He Comes

New China Much More Sturdy

Bush Has Pain on Right

Hey, big spender, the Heritage Foundation is no longer happy with you

Morning Report 12/30/04
Bush Misoverestimates It

Indonesian Army Said to Block Tsunami Aid

Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil finds an extra $5 million for victims

Morning Report 12/27/04
Disasters Natural and Unnatural

Uncle Sam's Crude Solution

Our Expensive, Deadly Role as Global Oil Police

Blame It on Al Qaeda

Media Hypes Sniper Conspiracy Theory

Black Curry Sour

Pooting in the Shadows

Riot Boys and Girls

Rock 'n' Rai

Letters

Standing Up to the Swoosh

One Man's Crusade Against Nike

Roots Music Ping Pong

Roots Music Ping Pong

Timor Ease

Clinton Makes Hay in Asia Mess

Machine Age