Nha Trang, a Vietnamese restaurant in Chinatown. This is Alex’s favorite restaurant in New York City. I was blown away by the hot and sour shrimp soup and the shrimp with salt and pepper sauce. Best of all, dinner for 5 was a mere $70 and you should have seen how much food we ordered!
Cendrillon in SoHo, my favorite Filipino fusion restaurant in the world. Despite Hurricane Hannah, which slammed into New York on Saturday afternoon, the restaurant was full by 8pm. Romy, the chef, does an amazing job and greets every table personally. I loved the mussels, the laksa noodles, lamb shank and kare kare (Filipino stew made with peanut butter, oxtail, tripe and vegetables). For dessert, we adored the passion fruit crème brulee, the bibingka, and champorado (sweet, sticky, chocolate rice porridge, what's not to love?).
Momofuku, a ramen noodle joint on the Lower East side. Momofuku serves fresh, Japanese style ramen noodles. The menu is limited, and unless you don’t like pork, order the pork steam buns and the pork ramen, which are superior to their chicken counterparts. Service was a little snotty. And since the restaurant does not take reservations, it’s best to arrived before 6pm. We got there at 5:45pm; the place was packed by 6:15pm on a Sunday. We've had better ramen on the streets of Tokyo, but good ramen places are rare in the US; to date, we have found none in the DC area.
Doughnut Plant in the Lower East side. I heard about this little doughnut place on Food Network, when Bobby Flay challenged Doughnut Plant owner, Mark Israel to a throwdown. Mark Israel’s doughnuts won hands down and I knew we had to make a pilgrimage. The $20 cab ride was worth it. If you go, order the tres leches doughnut, a cakelike doughnut that is out of this world. CJ loved the chocolate doughnut.
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