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Steamed pork buns with hoisin,cucumbers and scallions from Momofuku SSam bar and Momofuku Noodle bar . I don't have enough words to describe the brilliance of the combination of delicate steamed buns,juicy ,but crispy at the same time pork, scallions, slices of cucumber and spicy hoisin sauce. On Tuesday i had one (two buns in one serving) at Momofuku SSam bar, yesterday - at the Noodle bar, will i be able to stop?
The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2009 (or here, if the link doesn't work)list is out and once again it proves how subjective and irrelevant it is.(It does get a huge exposure in the world's media though,a great marketing trick by San Pellegrino?) One of the "new entries" is Le Chateaubriand in Paris. I was there one year ago and found it quite low compared to other Parisian bistros. And now Le Chateaubriand has 40th place among the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" ( among Per Se, Cracco or Les Ambassadeurs) . It must be a joke, isn't it? By the way,the ingenius Les Ambassadeurs has 47th place while Le Chateaubriand is the 40th, i wouldn't even dare to compare these two places, other than they both serve food...
The list is plenty of other irrelevancies, not only this one...
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Dining in Aida was like travelling to Japan. The sober and discrete exterior and interior, warm but reserved (in a good way) service and delicious cooking with ingredients of the highest quality. It is also the only Japanese (teppanyaki) restaurant in Paris to have a Michelin star which makes reserving a table there quite difficult. (Well, as I've mentioned before, because of my constant travelling i rarely book restaurants even one week in advance). So this time i called at 8 pm and to my surprise, they had a two places at the counter. There was a small problem though. It was the first working day after Easter holidays and the Aida's fish supplier was closed, so the restaurant had a limited amount of fish. But i didn't worry for that too much as what i wanted to try there was the chateaubriand teppanyaki for which Aida is famous for.
Every person I spoke to in London praised Hunan, " a Chinese "gem" ", where there is no menus and you will "explode" of the amount of delicious food. And indeed, Hunan is " not your typical Chinese restaurant." You don't get any menu, and the waiter just asks how spicy you would like your food and what you don't eat. "It's like having your own personal chef - and the result is a unique meal you will treasure forever.",Hunan' s website says.
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