I can't wait to try it. Burmese is very tasty food. I miss the old Cafe Mingala on the Upper East Side, right around the corner from the first apartment in NYC. The mango soybean dish was to die for. When I walked in, I didn't even have to ask for it.
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I hope to try Rangoon Spoon in person soon. Around three decades ago, there was a place in SOHO, called Burmese Kitchen (at least, that is what I recall). Ironically, I discovered it on the Ed Koch-era list of restaurants with health department violations that appeared weekly in this very publication. Knowing that it had some sort of problem meeting all the standards didn't outweigh my desire for Burmese and I made many happy visits, mainly for their night market noodles.
Not mentioned in this article is a food truck set up in Long Island City's Court Square, called Burmese Bites. Quite limited in what it offers, but a welcome change when you tire of the usual tacos, gyros and shawarma. E, M, 7 & G trains all take you right there.
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Sorry, but I hope this restaurant provides a better version of what I ate during a year and a half living in Yangon. Tea leaf salad and Shan noodles were about all I found palatable.
We used to say, "Bordered by India, China and Thailand who can all cook, what happened here?"
However, I'm sure these are lovely people, and I wish them well.
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That's one person's opinion.
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Thank you, NYT...a place a vegetarian can actually eat!
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Gee Tulsa is ahead of NYC?
We have had a very down home Burmese restaurant for at least a year now. Including Mohiga Thursdays.
Also 2 Burmese groceries.
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Ms. Mishan, you might want to suggest to chef Tun that she try shredded kale instead of cabbage for the fermented tea leaf salad. One of our several Bay Area Burmese restaurants does this, and it's frankly superior to the cabbage version.
Does Rangoon make roti with curry dip? One of our favs!
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Does anyone else read these columns and say "I must go here now!"
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Yes, Julia, all the time. Unlike the regular weekly reviews, which disproportionately cover large, expensive and trendy restaurants, often owned by restaurant management groups, the Hungry City reviews are usually of small, neighborhood, affordable ethnic restaurants, owned and operated by families, often immigrants to our wonderful and diverse city.
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@ Julia Weeks
I believe that in the wake of all the articles promoting the various ethnic-national-geographic cuisines, the City of New York should allocate sections of Manhattan for concentrating in each the eateries by ethno-gastrinomic criteria. For example, sections for Fareastern, North African, Southeast Aisian, Arctic, Amerindian, French, Russian, etc., food.
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Yes. The rich read Pete Wells' reviews and the people who like food read this one.
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