[ezcol_2third] THE ARUGULA IS NOT JUST THERE TO VALIDATE THAT I'M STILL A HUMAN BEING
[ezcol_2third] [/ezcol_2third] [ezcol_1third_end] THE PROBLEM WITH AN ANTIPASTO THAT TASTES THIS GOOD, IS
[ezcol_1quarter] [/ezcol_1quarter] [ezcol_1half] THE FOOD-EQUIVALENT OF BATMAN AND ROBIN, THE BRANGELINA OF ICONIC TURKISH EATS [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1quarter_end] [/ezcol_1quarter_end] [ezcol_1half] AS some of you may have noticed from this particular announcement, that I am now officially divorced
[ezcol_1half] JUSTIFICATION - MAXIMUM CARAMELIZATION [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] SO you watched Tony Bourdain in Bronx, didn't you? And if in the next following days, a certain very catchy phrase got stuck in your head like the most maddeningly annoying tune, echoing "chop'cheese
[ezcol_1half] I have never been to Mexico. To clarify further, I have never even been close to any of the states next to Mexico except maybe LA, which I'm not even going to use as my pathetic credentials on real Mexican cooking which is to say, zero to none. I've heard that Taco Bell is about as close to real Mexican food as fortune cookies are to being Chinese. I've also heard that they don't actually "nacho" much over there. Aside from that, Mexican food has remained quite a romantic mystery. But even though I don't know enough to say what's Mexican food, whatever it is, that tasteless borderline-inedible crap we were served with the other day near Beijing's embassy area, was definitely not it. Given that it was a very hot day hence we weren't feeling particular choosey, we thought those more-than-a-handful patrons who were present during off-meal hours were a good indicator that the restaurant at least serves human food. WROOONG! I mean seriously, seriously, how inhumanly difficult is it to serve passable tacos to someone who's never had a real taco! Not so freaking hard is it? Why!? [/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end] We left the place feeling psychologically hungry. The trauma only left me wanting more of what I've
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[ezcol_1third] THIS IS MAH-KHAO-SOI, AS IN