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The 10 Best French Fries in New York City, 2013 Edition

Chicken, Oreos, and even butter, are all fried standards by now, but what beats classic French fries? Crisp, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and dunked in ketchup (or mayonnaise), fries are irresistible, cheap and perfect for sharing, and can be topped with just about anything. Our 10 best picks hig ... More >>

Our 10 Best Chinese Restaurants in NYC, 2013 Edition

The amazing "big tray chicken" at Manhattan's Spicy Village It's been over two years since Fork in the Road appraised the relative merits of the city's Chinese restaurants - things have changed so much in the interim. Northern Chinese fare continues to rule Flushing, Elmhurst has increased the bre ... More >>

Mataheko: Mash! Pound! Eat!

Welcome to the best Ghanaian joint in town

Rural Restaurant: No Rice, Still Nice

More great food from China's far northeastern corner

Lotus Blue's Moon Festival Banquet On Sunday

The Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is this Sunday and Lotus Blue, a modern Yunnan eatery in Tribeca, is celebrating with a Moon Festival Banquet. It's ten courses for $88 per person and $68 if you're opting for the vegetarian meal. The banquet will be prepared by Lotus Blue's executive chef Kian Lam K ... More >>

Creepy Alert: Restaurants Know More About You Than You Think

I remember my first time at Eleven Madison Park. I was with two friends and while our waiter was cutting open the lavender honey duck, he looked me straight in the eye and noted that the duck was covered in Szechuan peppercorns. "I know that you're a food writer with a passion for Chinese food," he ... More >>

Hot & Spicy Whole Flounder at Rural Restaurant, Dish #45

Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team.

Beef Hot Pot at Hou Yi, Dish #55

Does this beef dumpling look like Ms. Pac-Man or what? Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, the tasty countdown leading up to our "Best of 2012" issue. Tune in every day (weekends, too!) for a new dish from the Fork in the Road team.

5 Questions With Travis Post of Yunnan Kitchen

[See More Chef Interviews: Il Buco Alimentari's Justin Smillie | Dragonfly's Cornelius Gallagher] This week we shared Yunnan Kitchen's five best dishes, after reviewing the Lower East Side restaurant. Now meet Travis Post, the executive chef of Yunnan Kitchen, and find out how he was drawn to regio ... More >>

Mission Chinese's New Menu Additions

Catfish a la Sichuan swims in a soupy swamp that adds Old Bay seasoning to a spicing scheme that includes cilantro, chile oil, and dried red chiles. One of the pleasures of dining in Mission Chinese during its first two months has been the menu tinkering that's gone on, with fundamental ingredient ... More >>

Photos: Lunch for Two at Eleven Madison Park

Eleven Madison has had a lot to celebrate in the past couple of weeks. They were named the tenth best restaurant in the world and chef Daniel Humm recently cinched the Outstanding Chef title at the James Beard Foundation awards last week. The menu of the restaurant comes in a grid of 16 main ingred ... More >>

Minzhongle, R.I.P. - Goodbye Corn!

This is Chinese food? Looks more like American succotash: the dish called "fried popcorn pine nuts" at Minzhongle. Yesterday, Counter Culture covered Zero Otto Nove, a pair of southern Italian twins, one in the Bronx, the other in Manhattan. That piece had to be moved up a week because the restaur ... More >>

Year of the Takeout Day 60: Fortune Cookies Chinese Restaurant

Ta-Chien Chicken from Fortune Cookies Chinese Restaurant (611 Manhattan Avenue, 718-389-7103)

11 Most Astonishing Dishes of 2011, NYC

​Truffle chawan mushi from EN Japanese Brasserie (click on image to enlarge) What does it mean to call a dish "astonishing"? Well, it has to be beautiful to look at, innovative within its canon, and perfectly executed. It has to surprise as well as satisfy. Such a designation can occur only ... More >>

Baltimore: In John Waters' Footsteps

​Baltimore kitchen, Saturday morning

Shanghai Asian Cuisine: Nip and Suck

A new food twist appears in Chinatown

The 10 Tastiest Things To Eat at the New World Mall Food Court

​The peanut Pure Snowy at Snopo Last week, Counter Culture rode the long silvery escalators downstairs to the humongous new food court at the New World Mall in Flushing. Obviously, would couldn't eat everything at the 28 stalls -- many of which offered multiple specialties -- but we did sam ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at New World Mall Food Court

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema samples the goods at the New World Mall Food Court in Flushing: "After being disappointed by the Sichuan fare, we quickly switched to other Chinese regions and found ourselves more satisfied." Sam Sifton awards two stars to Boulud Sud: "To the list of terrifi ... More >>

Dish No. 58: Shorty Tang's Cold Sesame Noodles

Rebecca Marx​ Birthed in the 1970s and now available for purchase at Smorgasburg, Shorty Tang's cold sesame noodles are the stuff of both legend and existentially gratifying eating.

Bensonhurst's Dai Wah Yummy City Ain't So Itty-Bitty

Big and boxy—but pretty good Chinese

Where Am I Eating? Yuba

Lauren Shockey​This week's Where Am I Eating? pictured the Grilled Miso Yuba from the newish Japanese restaurant Yuba, located at 105 East 9th Street (212-777-8188). The $8 namesake appetizer takes tofu skins and fries them to a crunch so it's hard to discern any real grilled flavor. But the ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Tofu Dishes in NYC

Robert SietsemaThe bean curd skin salad with sesame oil dressing at Henan Feng Wei in Flushing.​ Ah, tofu. Although it's all but synonymous with a wholesome (read: bland) vegetarian and vegan lifestyle, the coagulated soy milk enjoys innumerable manifestations in a wide variety of cuisines. As ... More >>

My 10 Favorite Brooklyn Restaurants

A pie awaits the oven at Motorino​Today, for our weekly 10 best list, I came up with a list of my 10 favorite Brooklyn restaurants--not the best, necessarily, but the places that I love and go back to over and over. All of the places I've chosen have great food, but a favorite restaurant might ... More >>

Our 10 Best NYC Chinese Restaurants, 2010 Edition

​The "boiled beef with hot-spicy sauce" is every bit as mouth searing as it looks, but there are plenty of blander options -- such as "special spinach pancake" -- on Lu Xiang Yuan's menu. Like an arcing missile, Chinese cuisine in New York moves so fast, you can barely keep track of it. Thus, ... More >>

Lu Xiang Yuan Serves Some Tasty Astroturf

The newest Qingdao restaurant hits Flushing filled with pleasing surprises

Hong Kong Restaurants Spread to Brooklyn and Queens

Action picks: Yee Kee H.K. Style and East Ocean Palace

Our 10 Best Things to Eat on St. Marks Place in the East Village, NYC

​Like the sign says: New York's Best Egg Cream St. Marks Place is only three blocks long, but packs an astonishing 63 places to eat along its truncated and colorful length, some of them nearly invisible. It constitutes one of the city's foremost tourist destinations for the under-40 crowd, th ... More >>

Hop the Train Out to Tanoreen and Athena Express

Mideast fare—and some new Greek—in Bay Ridge

Pix From Golden Palace

​ The so-called "corn bread" turns out to be fluffy bao made with yellowish corn flour. This week, Counter Culture cruises in to Golden Palace, one of two restaurants presenting the cuisine of Shandong and Liaoning in northern China, encompassing the delta of the Yellow River, and proximate t ... More >>

Under Review--Sietsema Samples the Food of the Druze; DiGregorio Sizes Up a New Sichuan in Brooklyn

This week in the Voice, Our Man Sietsema gets schooled in Druze cuisine at Gazala Place, while Sarah DiGregorio savors spicy animal parts at new Sichuan, Metro Cafe. Bruni worships at the altar of Ippudo's ramen, praising the "vaguely and not-so-vaguely cloudy broths of the shiromaru ramen--with it ... More >>

There Will Be Blood

The sanguinaccio at Villabate Bakery "Are you really going to eat that?" asked the young clerk, wrinkling up her beringed nose. "Well, I'm going to try it," I said, "And then I'm going to feed it to my friends." She laughed. I was buying a $5 tub of sanguinaccio, a chocolate pudding usual ... More >>

Regional Chinese Fare Hits Flushing Like a Ton of Bricks

Our Man Sietsema: 'A Bewildering 246-Item Menu'

Our Man Sietsema: 'I'd Pick Mutton Any Day'

Magnolia, Whatever. J&L Mall? Hell No!

Score One for Flushing: Bruni Gives Spicy & Tasty Two Stars

'Cue Cue

Our smoked-meat hound advises you to pick ribs, turkey, and sausage

Noodle Wizardry

Dyspeptic General Tso unmasked, nowhere near Chinatown

Eyeball to Eyeball

A Northern Chinese restaurant in Flushing finally gets our goat

Pedigreed

Short ribs surf gravy wave at old-style Chinatown Cantonese

Chinese Twist

Elmhurst diner specializes in arcane Korean-Chinese noodles

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