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Real Cheap Eats: Winter Warmer

Real Cheap Eats: Winter Warmer

by James Boo February 20, 2013

Striking at the heart of winter, the Real Cheap Eats food writers’ collective is warming up 21 new additions to its $10-or-less digest. Highlights from our selection include a West African sweat potato leaf stew, an Indian breakfast gem, a bargain seafood soon dooboo (courtesy [...]

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Live and Let Dine: Revisiting Chieu Kien Buddhist Temple in the Bronx

Live and Let Dine: Revisiting Chieu Kien Buddhist Temple in the Bronx

by James Boo December 14, 2012

Two years ago, I paid a visit to the Chieu Kien Buddhist Temple for a free vegetarian lunch. This week, I’ve been given a chance by New York’s brightest upstart storytelling publication, Narratively, to return to the temple for a deeper conversation with Thich Thien [...]

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Single Serving: Breakfast Tacos at Güeros in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Single Serving: Breakfast Tacos at Güeros in Crown Heights, Brooklyn

by James Boo October 2, 2012

It’s been over five years since I first tasted Texan breakfast tacos in Austin. I’m sad to say that in those five years New York hasn’t even begun to catch onto the idea of eating eggs, bacon and beans in taco form. There are exceptions, [...]

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Single Serving: Morir Soñando at Reben Luncheonette in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Single Serving: Morir Soñando at Reben Luncheonette in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

by James Boo September 13, 2012

The Reben Luncheonette, a decades-old breakfast-and-lunch counter in Williamsburg where fried eggs are accompanied by sagging mounds of orange potatoes and shriveled slats of deep-fried bacon, doesn’t have a lot going for it in the way of food. That’s probably why the storefront, along with [...]

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Real Cheap Eats: Summer Beats

Real Cheap Eats: Summer Beats

by James Boo August 16, 2012

Another season, another collection of pro tips from the Real Cheap Eats crew! In the final stretch of summer, we’re mostly focused on New York’s warm-weather eats, with 23 highlights across the boroughs. The highlights include no less than 6 desserts in the iced genre [...]

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Single Serving: Black Sesame Seaweed at Sky Ice in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Single Serving: Black Sesame Seaweed at Sky Ice in Park Slope, Brooklyn

by James Boo August 14, 2012

Sky Ice, a young and modern Thai cafe at the northern tip of Park Slope, serves its customers from a Bermuda Triangle bound by the “authentic” Thai cooking this neighborhood sorely needs, the “healthy” tweaks on standby Thai dishes this neighborhood thinks it needs, and [...]

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Where Office Food Is No Taboo

Where Office Food Is No Taboo

by James Boo August 7, 2012

I never expected to find pulled pork this good in a pita joint. I certainly never expected to find the perfect office lunch so close to my office. Taboonette has turned me around on both counts. The downtown outpost of Mediterranean-leaning restaurant Taboon, Taboonette offers [...]

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Single Federal File

Single Federal File

by James Boo June 1, 2012

Restaurants crowd-source annoyance. Long waits and stuffy spaces are why I hesitate to have dinner in Manhattan or check out anything that smacks remotely of a new attraction. If I’m going to spend more than half an hour just getting to the meal, I prefer [...]

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Established, Philly Style

Established, Philly Style

by James Boo March 27, 2012

The first honest-to-goodness Philadelphian I ever met greeted me from behind a plainly planted table at 30th St. Station. Girlfriend and I had just gotten off the bus and circled the terminal in search of assurance. Spotting the phrase “Travelers Assistance,” I approached the man, [...]

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