Recipes and food adventures with Adam Roberts
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Thai food
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Sukh
I’m a bit aggressive when it comes to picking a restaurant. After all, I’m not just eating for me, I’m eating for you: my adoring public! So on Friday night, when we met our friends Jeremy and Jason for dinner, I found myself in an extraordinary new role: passive restaurant goer. That’s right, Jason picked…
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Thai Diner
Since I moved back to New York two years ago, there’s one restaurant that comes up again and again as one of the most beloved restaurants in the city and that’s Thai Diner. Located on a highly-trafficked block in the Lower East Side (especially on a Friday night), Thai Diner looks a bit like a…
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Bangkok Supper Club
[From the 3/20/25 Amateur Gourmet Newsletter] On Tuesday we went with our friends Henry and Chris to Bangkok Supper Club in the West Village. The food was so good! Zippy and extremely flavorful. The highlights were these chicken wings that had an electric citric acid-like powder on them: The pork jowl that came on garlic…
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The Salty Turnip Omelette of Your Dreams
It’s a new year, folks, and as the weekend approaches, it’s time to ask yourself some serious questions, specifically about how you start your day: are you tired of eating the same thing over and over again? Is it possible that your boredom reflects a boredom with your life itself? Is it time for a…
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Mission Chinese Food and Pok Pok NY
Before I returned to New York this fall, I started a little folder in my browser called NYFood. I read my EaterNY, my Grub Street, and then bookmarked in my special folder any place I felt like I had to visit. Most prominent among my selections were Mission Chinese Food and Pok Pok NY. Both…
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Boat Noodles at Pa-Ord
At a certain point, if you want to earn your stripes in the food world, you can’t act squeamish or repulsed at the prospect of eating a bowl of pig organs floating in a broth thickened with pig blood. Truthfully, I’m at a point now where such thoughts don’t repulse me; in fact, I think…
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One Night in Bangkok (Dinner & Dessert in Hollywood’s Thai Town)
The end-of-the-day meal is a funny thing. For people who spend their days away from home, working in offices or out in the field, nothing’s more appealing, after a hard day’s work, than returning to the place where you live, lured in by the smell of a chicken roasting in the oven or the prospect…
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Death by a Thousand Thai Chilies
[Hey, this is Adam The Amateur Gourmet. I’m on vacation in Barcelona, Spain and while I’m gone I’ve asked some awesome people to fill in for me. Today’s post is from one of my favorite people in the world, my friend Patty Jang. I just love Patty–she’s an incredibly talented playwright (see her website), but…
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