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Poutine - The Famous Quebecois speciality food !

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I've been asking people what food is very canadian and only available here and the two I've heard from everybody is Poutine and Maple Syrup. Last night went to try the famous poutine I have been hearing about - Poutine is basically just french fries with cheese curds with a brown gravy poured on to (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poutine). Went to a very famous place in Montreal that serves it - La Banquise. This place is serving poutine since 1958 and got a lot of variations on the classique poutine. I had a poutine with onions and mergueze toppings. I tasted it and it's definitely not going on my list of favorite foods :)

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Soft Shell Crab - it's the season in NY !

It's soft shell crab season in the East Coast. Could not miss the opportunity to have a couple while here - went to Great NY Noodletown which has been raved for the crabs in nyt and yelp... Enjoyed them !

I thought soft shell was a different species of crab until I googled it and found out it's just regular crab in a different stage of their lifecycle. Crabs have to molt as they grow bigger.. i.e they have get out of their current shell and they've outgrown it. The soft shell crab is basically just the cran which just got out of their old shell. Their body hardens within a few hours of molting with a new shell if they stay in water. So it's tough to harvest them and hence not a year round delicacy.

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Filed under  //  chinese food   crab   food   nyc   seafood  
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African lunch - Thiebu Djen (Jolof Rice)

Thiebu Djen is the national dish of Senegal. It is fish stewed in rich tomato sauce with eggplant, carrots, cassava an white cabbage, served over exotice rice. Went to Harlem today for lunch and had that. Pretty good homey soul food !

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Filed under  //  african food   food   harlem   new york   nyc   soul food  
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NYC halal food trucks

I love the halal food trucks around every other block in NYC. Not too healthy but great tasting fast food. This particular one had a great variety of food - briani, kathi rolls, chicken kofta and even daal over rice, with max price being $5! Awesome deal !

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Fresh fried Oreos !

Seen at one the stands on the Atlantic City Boardwalk

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Filed under  //  american food   atlantic city   desert   food   fried   sweets  
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Roast duck over hand pulled fresh noodles !

Eaten at : http://www.yelp.com/biz/tasty-hand-pulled-noodles-new-york

Nothing beats a freshly made noodles in a great broth. I sat facing the kitchen and was amazed to see the chef make noodles from scratch starting from the dough and twisting and turning it till I had what I had in my bown :)

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Filed under  //  chinatown   chinese food   duck   food   new york   nyc  
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Brooklyn Food Flea Market - Smorgasburg !

Every Saturday in the summer time, there's a food Flea Market in Brooklyn by the East River side - Smorgasburg.

It had a varied mix of street food vendors and nice crowd relaxing by the river side eating with awesome views of Manhattan in the background.

I was wondering how the street food/local food culture differs in NYC vs SF, for research purposes. This event gave me a bit of an insight in the steet/local food culture of NY.

I had the fried anchovies with head on (they called it Jersey Style with the head on). Never had fresh anchovies before and they were a delicious bunch. Loved it !

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Mauritius Independance Day Potluck lunch for San Francisco Bay Area Mauritians

As every year is the tradition, we celebrate the Mauritius Independance day amongs all the Mauritians in the San Francisco Bay Area and this year, we had a record turnout of over 70 Mauritians.

It was a great awesome crowd with tons and tons of food as is the case with any Mauritian gathering. We had so much variety and so much food that I did not get to even try all of it. Many new Mauritians showed up this year following the successes from our previous gatherings.

This year, we also had a silent auction and raffle to benefit a non-profit organization helping the less fortunate in Mauritius and we got a decent amount collected to send to the organization. 

I've posted a few pictures of the different foods we have. Just to name a few of the foods that I can remember -  we had, amongst others,  Briani, Napolitaine, Gato Arouille, Gato Pima, Dipain Frire, Badia, Mine Frire, Carri Poule, Wantan, Lumpia, Sipec, Farata, Salade Mangue, Salade Laitue,  Chatini Cotomili, Mazavarou, Roti Poulet, Poudine Mais, Mauritian Flag Black Forrest Cake, Dahi Wada, Baguette Fromage, Poudine Dipain, Carri Zac dans Massalla, Gratin Sousou, Chatini Coco, Rougaille etc..

 

Filed under  //  food   friends   get together   independance   mauritian food   mauritians   mauritius   movalley   people  
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Mauritian Flag Sweet Polenta Pudding - Poudine Mais

Yesterday, we had a potluck to celebrate the Independance day of Mauritius for the Mauritians living in the bay area. I decided to cook something easy - sweet polenta pudding. It's a very common traditional sweet snack in Mauritius. Usually we don't add color to it, and it's yellow and plain. I decided to make it in the colors of our Mauritian flag. Making the pudding is very easy. Basically, boil some cornmeal, add some milk to it until it reaches a good thick consitency, then just add sugar, coconut and soaked raisins to it and let it set.

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Lahori Fish Bites

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Decided to try something new tonight for dinner and got some pakistani fish spices and cooked this Lahori Fish. Was pretty easy as it was pre-packacged Shaan Spices. Just had to make a batter out of the spices, marinate fish for one hour or so and then fry it. Came out very tasty and crispy. Love it !

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