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    Hi Everyone, I am going to a tex-mex themed potluck this weekend and I was assigned bean dip. Does anyone have a go-to recipe for a vegan bean dip? Because if I am bringing bean dip- I am bringing the best bean dip there is . Thanks All.
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    I had a fantastic dinner last night at A-Frame in Culver City. I highly recommend visitors to LA to stop at this much lauded restaurant. We shared the beer can chicken, peel and eat shrimp from the happy hour menu, corn bread, sweet and sour choi and kitchen fries. The chicken was insanely moist with a very crisp skin, served with house made kimchi, 2 sauces and a century egg. The shrimp were covered in kaffir lime salt and we were encouraged to lick our fingers after eating the shrimp to bring the flavor back around. The choi with chinese broccoli and bok choy and sausage may have been my favorite with a sticky but not too sweet glaze. The fries were fantastic with a variety of huge wedges of sweet potatos served with a kimchi sour cream. The cornbread was also great with the butter and salsa verde. The building is an old IHOP (hence the A-frame) and has communal seating. We got there on the early side while driving through and did not have to share but later I am sure you will. The music isn't quiet but lends to hip hop of the early 2000s... think jay z and biggie. I love it but grandma may not. WaikikiHo: gin, angostura, pineapple, passionfruit, lime was AMAZING. I do not like gin but after tasting it I ordered my own, amazing and went with the food really well. (and $7 on the happy hour menu!)
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    Any recent trips to Fins? Going to the San Diego zoo tomorrow and we were thinking of stopping on the way home (I'll call to check that they are open on easter). Or alternatively another good place for fish/shrimp tacos in the SD area.
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    always Utz... ketchup with Utz. regular or rippled)
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    About 7 years ago, a friend moved to the neighborhood. We did what my family likes to do, order the same thing from a few places for direct comparisons.. then you know where to get take-out from then on. North China won by a mile back then. I believe the tested item was beef with broccoli. (we were not going for authentic)
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    Hi all- Thank you for your advice and suggestions! I apologize for the delay in the write up.. parent/teacher conference week is a killer. So.. the blizzard kept our wanderings to Manhattan but I have one new place to put on the radar for DRers... Totto Ramen on 51st between 8th and 9th. We were looking for a hot dinner and found it on urbanspoon.. it was really great. A basement 20 seater where everyone who works there communicates in Japanese. 10 seats at tables, 10 at the bar next to 3 giant pots of broth and 3 large Japanese men assembling the bowls for all. We both had the chicken broth with chicken and minimal add-ons but I would go with pork next time after watching them crisp a tray of the pork meticulously with a blow-torch. The broth was incredibly flavorful and the house-made noodles still had a nice bite. Some notes- cash only (ramen about $10) and enter the covered basement steps and put your name on the unattended clip-board and DO NOT LEAVE. If you leave, they move on. The line moves fairly quickly as it doesn't take that long to eat/drink a bowl of ramen. I will visit this place again on my next trip, even if I am not staying in midtown/hells kitchen. http://tottoramen.com/
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    I've been there! It was a good place to take people when I lived in chicago and it was very cool to watch. The downside is the flavorings all come from extracts and flavorings etc so you don't get the great real fruit in them or deeper flavored syrups and flavorings. But it is really fun to watch and they have a lot of choices.
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    Hi everyone, thank you for the advice! We are staying overnight- she got there yesterday and we are staying until sunday for her school organized trip. Thankfully, she is a student so our parents kicked in a few hotel points to keep costs down. I've passed along everyone's suggestions and we will look over and report back! Thank you again everyone for your fantastic suggestions, we've been to the city before but it is so big and there are so many choices of things to do and places to eat. ... --- [The following post has been split into its own thread: Totto Ramen (ALB)]
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    Hi everyone, I think this disappeared so I apologize for the double post if there is one. I am meeting my sister in nyc this weekend. She is on a grad school networking trip and I'm tagging along for about 40 hours. I'm a teacher and she is in school so we aren't looking to spend a ton of money, but we would love a few interesting/lower cost suggestions. We are staying near her meetings in midtown west. We were thinking maybe the Fatty Crab but we are open to other suggestions- maybe a Korean place? We are looking to keep mains (or pp small plates) under $20. We are going to try to get student rush tickets to the nyc ballet saturday so I don't know if there is anything near by or we should try another place elsewhere. We were also thinking of trekking t the brooklyn flea... is it worth it in the winter? Thank you all for being a dependable place to reach out.
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    This place could really use a visit from Gordon Ramsey or the Restaurant Impossible people. Its a nice space, nice people work there, a town of people who would love more options in town (and could support more options for dining)... and yet the food...
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    Italian rainbow cookies
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    I'm a top chef expert and happy to help. Last Chance Kitchen runs in parallel.. the eliminated chefs face each other until the point where the winner at that time gets re-entry in the competition. Last year, the winner of LCK rejoined the competition with the top 3. So the eliminated chefs faced each other until that point in the competition.
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    Thanks Don! I don't get out too much but I happened to eat there with a Vermonter some time ago. That dessert is definitely unique.
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    Thank you for such a comprehesive review! Can you come fill in MD for us Until then, I'll have to come over and try some of your recommendations. Thank you!
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    It looks like the sugar on snow from America eats (with additional flowers). since that is closed I am guessing minibar. or I could be way off...
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    I've used dried tomatoes (ground up) blended into the custard to amp up a corn and tomato tart. Perhaps a seasonal equivalent...
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    Be careful at that bar... a friend of a friend ended up with a $32 top shelf manhattan. (trusted friends to both)
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    call now- Lotus of SIam.
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    Please move this if I am wrong, but I did not see a topic for the Corned Beef King. The king has a food truck and sells full time from the Exxon station in Olney. My parents still live there and picked up sandwiches this afternoon, and I was very impressed. We split two sandwiches between the four of us and it was plenty of food for the non-famished. They aren't Carnegie deli style, but definitely ample for the $10 price tag per sandwich. The meat leans toward moist rather than lean which made it more enjoyable at the time and slightly less so later, when cool (though those who don't mine fattier meat would likely have no problem). The mustard was spicy and the slaw (a side) was sweeter and vinegary, just the way I like it. The pastrami was cut a bit thicker than the corned beef. They sell around MoCo I believe from the truck- I think it's worth seeking out in our deli-starved area. http://cornedbeefking.com/
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    If you are in Bethesda- I really like Tako Grill (tako as in octopus). The prices are great and the fish I've had has been very good.
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    I went to Panas in Bethesda last night with friends who had an expiring livingsocial deal. For $14 (pre-deal) you can get 8 empanadas with baked plantain chips and 4 sauces. We got 2 of those between the 3 of us and had 6 left over happily for lunch today. No one had a bad word to say about any of them, but I can personally speak to the tamal empanada (corn, farmer cheese, jalapeno), smoked eggplant and ham and cheese. I would order any of them again (and likely will sometime soon). I really enjoyed the pimenton and aji sauces as well. The other two were probably good, but in my mind contaminated by cilantro, so I passed. One thing to note- everything is baked, not fried. The empanadas are thus not greasy at all (my friend compared them to matzah which was fair more in flavor than texture as they don't taste like fat or salt). A touch of salt would probably be good, but once you taste the filling it isn't noticed any longer. I believe you can get 3 empanadas for $7 which would be a great lunch. They are next to the potbelly and barking dog on elm. I
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    This review sounds like the writer was just so flabberghasted by the levels of bad, all he could say was "really?" http://www.nbc.com/s...nd-amy/1173561/
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    I asked at the Central Pike Market yesterday, and they said they were sending it to the bigger markets.
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    If anyone out there is a coconut fan, I HIGHLY recommend the coconut water ice floes. They look like popsicles but I usually end up eating them with a spoon in a bowl. The ingredients are : coconut water, sugar, coconut cream, coconut shavings. They are amazingly refreshing. As the list of ingreidents would suggest, only big coconut fans will likely enjoy them. On the downside for those who enjoy eating popsicles by holding the stick..I only have this option about 50% of the time. The melting may be happening on my drive home or in the store, but by the time I eat them they are often rehardened around the base of the stick.
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    I regrettably have eaten at the CP location. At the time I did not comment, I think I wanted to forget it ever happened. I ordered a turkey caesar burger, which was a special. It was horrible. The caesar dressing just tasted like pureed anchovies, the burger was chewy and dry. I tried to scrape off the sauce but couldn't really get it off. A friend I hadn't seen in a long time picked the restaurant so I didn't want to return it and make a scene. Maybe the other burgers were fine. My friends seemed to enjoy their beef burgers, but I won't be hurrying back.
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