OK, Here we go..... I think it only fair to start with this photo as this trip to Tokyo, and the inspiration of these two guys with me in the photo, really kicked off my interest in exploring food, photographing said eats, and sharing/explaining my impressions of my experiences. So, to you David Chang and Anthony Bourdain, Cheers, and thanks. As I begin I think it only fair to explain a bit of what my purpose with this blog is. As you know, I do not participate in Facebook, and I wont go into why here, but I NEEDED a vehicle to communicate and connect with those in my life, both near and far. As the name implies, this will primarily be a blog about pizza. However, as this is mine, I will feel free to do and say as I damn well please, as it pleases me. So I hope to not offend or tiptoe too far over the line of appropriateness, but if I do, that's just too fucken bad. Enjoy. Pizza, food, life experiences, thoughts, feelings, rants, and more food. This is what you will find here. Please feel free to share and pass along to anyone you think might have an interest, as I hope you will as well. Sincerely yours, DVA

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Nice Green Bo - China Town, NYC


http://nicegreenbo.com/default.aspx

Josh, you are the man.  A great recommendation, a great restaurant.  Not that you have, or would ever, steer me wrong, but this place is great!  Great food and super cool also.  Not super cool in the sense that it's new and glitzy and there's some hot new chef.  There's no celebrity chef here, none needed.  This place looks like it has been here since the first railroad was built in America by the first Chinese to come to America.  And did I say that it's small?  Yeah, tiny.  But they have the fastest service and are simply KILLIN IT! I even had the old Chinese lady running the place give me a wink while I stood outside in the snow waiting to be sat, letting me know that my table was ready.  She looked like some old lady Chinese woman gangster, but cool/edgy.  I love this place.

I ordered all of the recommended dishes, even though they have like 200 other items on the menu.

Here is the Hot and Sour Soup



Scallion Pancake




Lo-Mein with Mushroom and Spinach



And the star of the show

****Crab and Pork Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao)****

They are like little soft pillows filled with some sort of ground meat (obviously pork and shrimp just based on the name alone, but you couldn't necessarily identify the meat....just sayin) and then filled with broth.  Some kind of lovely, flavorful, all enveloping elixir of wonderfully flavored magic.  It's a pocket of soup in a dumpling!?!?!?!?!?!?!?  I've heard of the larger version, the kind that you would use a straw to suck the soup out of.  But I really love the small, bite sized version.  It really is magic.

The dumplings are joined by a small dish of black vinegar and julienned ginger.

The perfect bite is the dumpling, dipped in the vinegar, a few slices of ginger.

Josh recommends also adding a small dollop of the spicy red chili.  My table didn't contain any of this, but I am absolutely sure I could've gotten some with a mere nod of the head or toss of my hair....However, at that point I was finished eating and ready to roll.





Nice Green Bo

Soup Buns

Who knew???

Clearly not me, but now I do, and so do you.

Eat More Soup Buns

DVA

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