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I'm kind of torn on savory donuts (I just can't type doughnuts) but they seem to thrive in other countries. It's the cheese combined with sweet that's strange, I think. I had a cheese donut at J.Co Donuts & Coffee in Singapore. It was likable but just didn't seem sufficiently donutty. They also have one called the Mona Pisa with cheese and chicken sausage.

I love the Chong Qing chicken. I recently was at a Sichuan restaurant in HK and accidentally ordered both Chong Qing chicken and Chong Qing pig intestines (the latter had a different name). It was a massive chile overload. I brought the leftovers back to NYC the next day and they were still good (and spicy).

http://www.goodiesfirst.com/2009/01/yunyan-szechuan-restaurant.html

It's not that bad of a walk from the Fresh Pond Rd. M station. I've never tried their burger because that would mean less room for the smoked pork chops.

I visited my first Wegmans last month (Woodbridge, NJ) and was most definitely impressed. But then, all it it took was the big spacious row of self-serve-and-weigh bulk food to wow me. You just don't see that in Brooklyn. But they lost points when I was unable to find plastic-wrapped polenta in a tube and corn tortillas in the entire store. Why no love for corn products?

I grew up with Fred Meyer and they will always be my favorite. No finer one stop shopping.

High schoolers? Really? My mom made me stop when I was 11 because I'd hit 5'6 and kept getting "aren't you too old to be trick or treating?" I didn't feel too old but it was awkward. Halloween wasn't/isn't fair to tall kids.

I gave the turkey sausage one a try recently and what annoyed me the most (besides the cardboardy bread) was that when I got it home there wasn't even any cheese on it. Not that the extra dairy would've necessarily helped the sandwich much.

There are still two within two blocks of my apt. in Carroll Gardens (and strangely, no real grocery stores anywhere in the immediate area). I wish they carried more Asian products. One is just a regular bodega, the other has lots of natural/organic/vegetarian stuff. I patronize the latter for Greek yogurt, but that's about it.

Despite being a little fast-foodish, the softshell crab sandwich at the Circus Drive-In at the Jersey Shore isn't half bad. No homemade tartar sauce, though. But it's a circus-themed drive-in and that's half the fun.

How a benign mint julep thread has devolved into Holocaust allusions is both fascinating and freakish...

roboppy: Hopefuly it doesn't disappoint. Don't miss the completo hot dog.

They do serve pastel de choclo at a semi-weird, kind of pricey theater district restaurant, Pomaire, which claims to be the only Chilean restaurant in NYC (which isn't quite true). But I can't say how authentic it is because I've never eaten the dish on its home turf.

I’d never encountered stewed vegetable tacos until a trip to Mexico City last year. There’s a stand in Condesa that some call El Guero, it says hola on the front awning, and they sell like 20 different varieties like cauliflower, squash, red pepper and nopales. Unfortunately, they’d run out of most fillings by the time I showed up in the afternoon but I was able to try one with chard/alcelgas and topped with queso fresco. They are kind of messy but a nice change of pace from the more typically meaty fillings. I don’t think I’ve seen them in NYC.

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