Back to the missus and my trip to New York, last October. When last seen in the city, we were eating Italian dinner at the since-closed Foul Witch with a very old friend of mine. Lunch was with someone I’ve known for a much shorter time and, until this lunch, only online, Krishnendu Ray, professor of food studies at NYU and a renowned scholar of the culture and sociology of immigrant cuisines and restaurants in the United States. We’d interacted online for several years prior and had talked about getting together in person for a while—it finally happened on this trip, and a very nice encounter it was. He had asked us what kinds of foods we were most interested in eating and, keeping our other meal plans in mind, we had suggested South East Asian food of one kind or the other. He then furnished a list of possibilities, from which we chose Laut, a Malaysian restaurant located right off Union Square. Here’s how it went. Continue reading
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Uncle Fung, Borneo Eatery (Long Beach, CA, December 2022)
Just about a month after our trip to southern California in late December began, here finally is my first meal report from that trip. It is not of our first meal (dim sum) or our second meal (sushi), but of our third meal: at Uncle Fung, Borneo Eatery in Long Beach, who specialize in dishes from Indonesia (Borneo specifically), Malaysia and Singapore. They are a relatively recently opened branch of Borneo Kalimantan Cuisine in Alhambra (in the San Gabriel Valley). Since the Long Beach location opened in 2018, they’ve also opened a branch in Buena Park. It was to the Long Beach branch we went, however, as it is located a mere 10 minutes drive from my mother-in-law’s place in Seal Beach. We’ve not found much food of interest in Seal Beach—indeed our worst meal on this trip was eaten towards the end in Seal Beach. And so, the prospect of good Southeast Asian food within easy reach was enticing. I am glad to report that that is exactly what we found. Herewith, a bit of detail. Continue reading