Taste Good Malaysian Cuisine

Went out with Ramen and Friends to Elmhurst, Queens to eat Malaysian food at Taste Good ...and it tasted really good. One of the best group meals I've ever had. We ordered a lot of food and it was only $12 each...

Purple Yam – Filipino Pan Asian

Went out with Ramen and Friends to Purple Yam out in Ditmas Park. They've been getting good reviews (i.e. NY Times & Time Out). Even the table next to us was filled with people from New York Magazine and wa...

Matsukado NYC

Tried this new ramen spot with Yoshie of Ramen and Friends. She had the Udon (with tempura flakes, sweetened deep-fried tofu pockets, spinach) --which I thought was pretty good. I got the Ramen Matsukado that h...

Xi’an Famous Foods Manhattan

I saw the Roboppy/Serious Eats post about a Xi'an now opening in Manhattan's Chinatown. This is the famous place in Flushing's Golden Mall everyone keeps talking about. Even more so after Bourdain went to it on...

Ramen and Friends: Cafe Sim-Sim

A Ramen and Friends event in Kensington, Brooklyn at Cafe Sim-Sim (Azerbaijani food). Yoshie set up a set menu with the owner/chef at $30 a head. It was originally $50/pp, but she got it knocked down for a smal...

New Malaysia

Dinner at New Malaysia with Rob and Yoshie. Always start out with roti canai. I love that chicken curry sauce. Then happened to get more of it in my Nasi Lemak (coconut flavored rice with belacan anchovy, chick...