Pretty much any Malaysian restaurant worth their salt will have it. I used to go to Skyway on Allen at Canal and Overseas Taste Restaurant on Canal between Ludlow and Orchard (Skyway's ambience is about 3% better, which is to say, not great at all, but the food is). I've only been to New Malaysia Restaurant in that Chinatown arcade on Bowery at Canal once, but I'm pretty certain they'll do a decent job. Also, Tony's letter to Josh Homme's daughter:
Very quirky and good episode. The food not all that interesting but the place and the people were fascinating.
Yeah, that was the best episode of the season IMO. Spanish food is just ridiculously good and highly underrated.
Bourdain and Ferran Adria seem to genuinely like each other. I wonder how many other TV shows/specials Ferran Adria approved to shoot an El Bulli special before it closed?
Geez Tony did you really have to ice the pig. You really seemed to enjoy that. Otherwise a good episode. You can't go wrong with New Orleans and Louisiana. Anyone eat at Willie Mae's Scotch House?
Finally had the time to watch the "High Desert" DVR'ed episode. It really was nothing more than Tony making a documentary of his punk-rock friends, and oh-by-the-way, what have you got to eat in this wasteland? Much like you can't make a good dish from bad ingredients, you can't make a good show with poor content.
Is anyone else watching the Layover? It's slicker and more for mass consumption, for better and worse. I'd enjoy it more if I hadn't seen the Singapore episode of No Reservations recently, but I'm not going to complain about seeing Sigaporean street food in HD.
Have you tried making it yourself? The recipe sounds easy enough, give it a go and let us know how it turns out.
Yeah, we made it at home and came out okay. You can cheat a bit and use store bought chicken stock to cook the rice. Having a sharp knife to cut the chicken bones is nice, but you can cheat and use drumsticks instead of thighs. They key step is pan frying the rice to give it some nuttiness.
Did you make the chili sauce also? Ground chilies, chicken stock, lime juice and garlic, a food processor or mortar and pestle would make short work of it
I missed the start of this new Layover series. But i have now seen NYC and Singapore. Did I miss any? The NYC show was good. Been a while since I watched a show on TV with a pen and notepad, but that is exactly what I did when watching this. Loved it when bourdain but that LA guy in his place at the burger joint. Tony is a bit clueless about the outer burroughs though. But thay is to be expected. For e.g. "take the L train which runs over Roosevelt Ave"?? Major f--- up there. Lol. And " brutal to get to anything resembling public transport from any NYC airport"? WTf? I didn't know 5 minutes on the air train classifies as "brutal". His statement is only true about LaGuardia.
Nah. I went the really simple route and used the store-bought chili garlic sauce (from the company that makes Sirachua - it's pretty much what Malaysian restaurants use with their Hainanese chicken). Nope, that's it so far. And yeah, the whole airport-to-city thing was weird, since Newark has an excellent public transit connection.
I'm loving this new "Layover" show. Think it is my new favorite show. The Rome episode was great! So much information packed into 1 hour. I loved when Tony said, "if there is one thing you MUST do in Rome it is eat cacio e pepe. More important than visiting the Vatican." So true! This guy hits the nail on the head every time. Next time I'm in Rome I'm definitely hitting that porchetta place he went to early in the episode. Sliced pork served in a brown-paper bag - there is no way that cannot be delicious! (I'm salivating as I type this)
Bourdain was on Marc Maron's WTF podcast earlier this week (there's a lot of promo and Marc Maron's monologs so you could skip to about 14:45 if you just want to get to the interview). Great stuff - Tony talks about his drug use and gives a really honest assessment of himself as a chef.
Here he is in Amsterdam: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b9XWYLAeY0"]Anthony Bourdain - The Layover - Amsterdam 1:3 - YouTube[/ame] Good fun, and he mostly gets it right.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcg24qHoMu0&feature=related"]Anthony Bourdain - The Layover - Amsterdam 2:3 - YouTube[/ame] [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CakZDwLfzAk&feature=related"]Anthony Bourdain - The Layover - Amsterdam 3:3 - YouTube[/ame]
If you haven't had a croquette from a vending machine you haven't been to A-Dam. Best fast food on the planet.
Of course the weed might be influencing your opinion just a tad. They had a Febo-like place open up in New York City a few years ago. It had a different name, but same idea: selling krokets and other fast food in little windows that you put money in to open and get your food without needing to interact with some douchbag behind the counter. The food isn't nearly as good though. I'm not even sure if they're still in business.
They closed in 2009, if you're thinking of Bamn! http://www.capndesign.com/archives/2006/08/a_trip_to_bamn.php I thought, of all the places in North America, St. Mark's & 3rd was the perfect location for an automat, with the high concentration of drunks, stoners and Asians. I really liked the Amsterdam episode, and it feels like a city in dire need of a show like this.
In what alternate universe is Spanish food underrated? By which I mean that those who claim to know about food rave about it.
I can attest to the awsomeness of the Indonisian rice plate he ate at with the two dudes. In fact, that looked a lot like the same restaurant where I ate with Marcel, Daric and Jay when we were there back in 2006. A great dining experience.
But does the general population also rave about it as much as they rave about French, Italian, Japanese or even Thai food? It doesn't seem like it to me.
I don't think the general public raves about French, Italian, Japanese or Thai food. At least not any more than Spanish cooking. If anything, there's probably an oversaturation of Spanish restaurants in major cities. Also, it's a weird response to a comment about El Bulli, which didn't do Spanish food.
The general population thinks the Olive Garden is fine dining so really, their opinion isn't worth all that much. To answer your question seriously, there aren't that many spanish restaurants compared to other ethnic foods. Give it time, though. 15 or 20 years ago, Thai restaurants were much less common. I'm sitting here trying to think of a pure French restaurant in town and I can't think of one.
