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Caviar Vending Machines Exist in Beverly Hills

Before putting in your $1.75 for the jumbo bag of Buggles, consider that hungry West Coasters may be snacking on vending machine caviar when 4:00pm hunger attacks. Beverly Hills Caviar is now doling out the "$500-an-ounce" luxury food in certain Southern California malls for those with champagne wis ... More >>

Masak: Asian Rustic

They're slinging Singapore food in the East Village

KFC Launches Star Shrimp Nuggets In Singapore

A Singaporean food blog has reported that KFC has launched these star-shaped shrimp nuggets. They're going for 3.95 Singapore Dollars, or around $3.15 UDS.

McDonald's Rolls Out Lamb Burgers . . . In Australia

OK. This is getting ridiculous. First came Pizza Hut's cheeseburger-stuffed pizza in the Middle East, mashed-potato vending machines by 7-Eleven in Singapore, fine dining at Pizza Huts in China, and more recently, lobster and caviar burgers in Japan by Wendy's. What is it this time? A "Serious Lam ... More >>

The Future of Food Trucks

What if these establishments were moved into a food court -- with art and seating? I'm aware of all the arguments in favor of food trucks: 1. They allow entrepreneurs to start restaurant businesses with far less cash than a storefront requires. 2. They cost virtually nothing, rent-wise (though o ... More >>

Year of the Takeout Day 209: Village 38

Steam Table Sampler from Village 38 (575 Eighth Avenue, 212-244-7800)

Genting Palace: We Wager You'll Like It

Now you can play the ponies and eat dim sum at the same place—Aqueduct

FRESH PAINT

Pick up works of art for cheap

Year of the Takeout Day 94: Zen Palate

Singapore Style Curried Rice Noodles from Zen Palate (115 East 18th Street, 212-387-8885)

Dale Talde Dishes on Launching Brunch at Talde, Speculates Opening Date for Pork Slope Part 1

He made his name as a fierce cheftestant on Top Chef, but Dale Talde is much more than a television badass. His Brooklyn restaurant, Talde, has been getting plenty of buzz (including a review by former Village Voice critic Lauren Shockey) and his forthcoming restaurant Pork Slope seems to be followi ... More >>

Singapura Coming Soon to 106 Lexington Avenue

A stroll by 106 Lexington Avenue reveals that a restaurant called Singapura will open in the immediate future. Although still completely papered up, a sign notes that the restaurant will specialize in both Malaysian and Thai cuisine, and will also offer Hakka Chinese food. Although that sounds lik ... More >>

Impiety

Wormrot

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

Big and boxy—but pretty good Chinese

Brooklyn Dog Food Makers Eat It; Roseanne Barr Goes Nuts

​Two Brooklyn women who make Evermore Pet Food plan to eat their dog food daily for a month beginning March 1 to prove how good it is. [CBS News] The struggling A&P supermarket chain is being forced to close another 32 stores in six states as part of its turnaround strategy, including 17 in N ... More >>

Will the Food Movement Replace the Green Movement?; And Just What Is in Our Fast Food?

​The environmental movement might be dying, but the food movement could help change the way Americans eat and farm to be much greener. [Time] Singapore is launching a food truck called Singapore Take Out that will travel the world, making its only North American stop in New York. [Wall Street ... More >>

Scenes from the Hurricane Club, New 'Polynesian' in Flatiron

​The Hurricane Club is an odd duck--meant to be a fun revival of old-school, faux Polynesian food and drink, it ends up seeming more all-inclusive-beach-resort than anything else. The cocktails make some tiki references, but are mainly too sweet and weak to make an impression, the food is serv ... More >>

Singapore Airlines Launches a Cookbook; White Castle Debuts Garlic Cheese Sliders

​In this era of gross or no airplane food, Singapore airlines has launched a cookbook. Above & Beyond, A Collection of Recipes from the Singapore Airlines Culinary Panel features recipes from such chefs as Gordon Ramsay and Alfred Portale. [FOXNews] Jennifer Rubell is a conceptual food artist ... More >>

Top Chef: 'You Couldn't Have This Much Extraneous Fluid in Space'

How big? Really?​ "Thirteen chefs have fallen," says Kevin as if he's talking about victims of a foreign war instead of willing reality show contestants, giving us a taste of the vacuous hyperbole that awaits us. Angelo, meanwhile, carps about his ex-in laws, saying they "just didn't believe ... More >>

THEATER GONE WILD

How many Fringe shows can you see?

Tabla's Floyd Cardoz on Misconceptions About Indian Food, and the State of Indian Restaurants in America

​Earlier today, we brought you an interview with Tabla's executive chef Floyd Cardoz on Goan food and the trials of starting out as a young chef in Bombay. Here, in the second part of the interview, Cardoz talks about why there aren't more fine-dining Indian restaurants, misconceptions about ... More >>

Five Best Pieces of Food Art on Etsy

Etsy might be a little precious, but it's also a trove of affordable, unusual gift ideas, some of them food-related. Before you know it, you've bought a pair of mushroom earrings from a woman in Singapore, and felt sushi from a crafty girl in Chicago. Click through to see our five favorite food gift ... More >>

In Praise of Malaysian Jerky, A.K.A. Meat Candy

Left to right: Spicy pork, spicy chicken, spicy sliced beef, sliced pork​ Malaysian-style jerky is entirely different from the desiccated, chewy meat product most of us are acquainted with. It is incredibly, overwhelmingly delicious, a bomb of sweet, savory, and spicy flavors, charred on the e ... More >>

Let Us Now Praise Stinky Foods: Durian

​A durian on a woman's lap in the Singapore bus is a time bomb waiting to go off. Fellow passengers look upon the rider with both envy and fear. If the bus jolts and the thing flies into the air, it might land with an impact that could rupture the armor, and send waves of vomitous stink coursi ... More >>

Red Apple: New Fujianese in Sunset Park Fries Excellent Oyster Cakes

​ A new Fujianese spot, Red Apple Fast Food, has popped up on Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and today the place was packed with diners lunching on noodle soups and fish-and-rice combos from the steam table. But on a self-service table in the center of the room sat the most exciting o ... More >>

Faulty Buggy PANIC Goes Global; Park Slope Hardest Hit

-- Gawker, Monday. -- New York Times, today. Maybe Park Slope parents worrying about "their vulnerable young children, Daffodil and Ainsley" riding MacLaren's death machines are funny if you're a childless click-slave, but the Times finds Slope breeders taking it very seriously indeed. "This ... More >>

Dodge the Sake Bombs at Laut

A fine Malaysian joint hides near Union Square

Beer Happy at Bia Garden

The view from inside Bia's walk-through beer fridge.​On a recent visit to the freshly opened Bia Garden on the Lower East Side, Fork in the Road was told by the hostess that the delivery menu neatly printed on a blackboard overheard was, in fact, "totally fake... we don't have delivery yet." ... More >>

Rasa Malaysia Launches Nyonya Food Site

Fork in the Road is a long-time admirer of Rasa Malaysia, a Malaysian recipe website with gorgeous photography. The editor has just launched a new site, dedicated to Nyonya food, the cuisine that was created by Chinese settlers in Malaysia and Singapore. (Find a more detailed description of Nyonya c ... More >>

Nude Singapore Couple Evade Execution, Pay Fine

Back in February we told you about a couple who strolled nude through a nightlife district in Singapore, when they fine you for everything and pornography is just a wistful rumor. AsiaOne tells us today that these free spirits were not, as we had feared, executed, but merely fined $2,000 apiece. It ... More >>

Couple Nude in Singapore, Face Three Months in Jail

Yes, it's a crappy cell phone picture, but what you must realize is this pair of naked strollers, who apparently stripped off as a lark, were photographed on a street in Singapore, where you can be arrested for spitting on the sidewalk and for twelve years could not buy gum. And of course these tw ... More >>

Double Crown: Culinary Empire Building

Eating fluke while Rome burns

KF Seetoh on Singaporean Street Food

4 Questions: James Oseland Dreams of Montana

Our Man Sietsema and the Wierd Sushi Bar

Egg-Salad Sushi at Sakae Sushi

New chain meddles with our expectations for Japanese cuisine

Our Man Sietsema Travels to Redang Island

No "Sex" for You: The Sex and the City Premiere Freeze-out

Chowhound Dave Cook's Last Road to Singapore

For his last meal, this man dreams of food courts of the Far East

The Eye

'Another Wave: Global Queer Cinema, Part One'

Whodunit: The British Consulate Bomb

Thirteen+2

Aimless Singaporean rebels in directionless youth flick

Rice Needs Fluffing

Her sticky issue: Is she or is she not running for president in 2008?

New China Much More Sturdy

Say What?

Das Bootlegs

Hunting down verboten DVDs and videos on the Internet

Edges of the Groove

Arguments against education, reclaimed punk rants, electropop with staying power

À La Cart

NY Mirror