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wagyu double cheeseburger


mango kombucha and my boy's gochujang honey chicken sandwich in the back

Interesting the from lucie hype died a bit

Ya i also saw on ig how long radio bakerys lines r and just dont get it i font think

Overall
I do like trying new novel shiny things but

Tbh if i know for a fact itll just b a midtier thing i wont try
Like i was convinced from lucie and l’appartment was all just hype w/o substance (in the case of l’appartment that its actively bad whereas from lucie is just actively any other cake u can get from a nice coffeeshop/restaurant)

And this article reaffirms that

Idk
I have a lot of patience for bullshit and whatnot if i think itll be good but some of it is just entirely out of the realm of possibility that its worth a line

And i get it that the business owners never came out and said “yes my s*** is the best in the city come stand in a line at x time” but idk i think its an issue of how food gets highlighted in certain sections of ig and how certain ppl ingest those sections only

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just a regular choco chip i believe, but they added sea salt flakes i believe, and also pretty large lol

was kinda hard but my friend said it still tasted really good

i hate this article and i hope this doesn’t make getting pastries more difficult for me this month.

why they gotta make pastries some new hypebeast s***

looks amazing.

what is this though?

list of ingredients pls

tuna for the fish (mixed with soy sauce, sesame oil, chili paste, furikake, & sesame seeds)

then just brown rice (I had sushi rice but didnt feel like making it) and cucumber, and avocado. Also topped with some kewpie mayo lol

yeah i dont think the article helps wait times LOL

the wait times/lines/general effort u need to exert for a lot of ig baked goods popups is actually kinda nutty lol.
like for a lot of them if u show up on time ur not gonna get anything. u need to plan to be there 15-30 ahead and immediately stand in line even if one hasnt formed yet--theres always ppl that r like 'o i got here an hr early and didnt realize the line formed'

the issue is that its a lot of type a girlies going to these popups.... i dont think its that the ppl who are attracted to ig baked goods are all type a girlies, but those r the ones who show up and bc the ig algo casts its net far and wide, a lot of type a girlies show up and will show up very early

the only actual physical pastry stores ive heard running out of stuff like hb drops r

• l'appartement
• banh be (i tried going once and all they had was decent ish coffee but their selection is practically just jello and shortbread cookies anyway so it wasnt particularly exciting for me)
• maybe from lucie???? idk... never tried going
• lysee
• lafayette
• dominique ansel workshop special weekend drops
  -fromkora has a really difficult to get presale drop (gone within 15 min of website opening) but u can pick up in person the extras which i think might actually b p easy to get

that seems like a lot but this is truly a small drop considering how many bakeries there are in the city producing rly great stuff. and i think only lysee is truly producing things u can find nowhere else.

then la cabra, nick and sons, and caffe panna all have lines but its like a 15-20 min wait tops
on the flip side, mei lai wah started having 40 min waits now that theyre everywhere on ig/tik tok, same w cha an.

i think its just a general nyc food + ig/tiktok thing idk
theres 50 hyped restaurants out there that need to be booked a 3 weeks in advance minimum
some of which fully book within 30 seconds of dropping slots
some of which also do limited items that r really hard to get and require a lot of effort (wen wen's bdsm chicken which is 5 orders a night, dhamaka rajasthani rabbit feast which is 1 order a night, semma's dungeness crab, etc.). something about it just is good for business for these establishments undeniably.
unapologetic foods (restaurant group which owns a few spots including dhamaka and semma) pre-dhamaka press run had love from the neighborhood for their restaurants and critical acclaim but took walkins and had no significant booking scarcity. something about the idea of something being hard to ends up making it really hard to get

which ties into the thing about these dumb italian carbone dupes i was mentioning--whenever one of these dupes open, ppls first initial vocalization on ig is always "!!! book it before it becomes hard to book!!!!" which creates this false sense of scarcity therefore driving a bunch of ppl to book it therefore making it hard to book.

ofc again im not saying these places are bad (beside l'appartement which im convinced is genuinely bad), but if the love is spread more evenly throughout different spots in the city that are of similar quality it would just be more sensible to me

i am very passionate abt this topic !!!!!!!!!!!!!

thanks man!

will pick these up during my tj's haul tmrw

np 🤝

Pulled pork with collard greens 8/10

Onion rings 9/10

Brisket and baked beans. Brisket was dry 6/10.

Full rack of ribs 8.5/10. Fries were whatever, just filler.

Banana pudding and bread pudding. 8/10

where that cookie from tho

is lafayette worth checking out?

in terms of bakeries in that immediate 1 block area
i think librae is more interesting. instagram.com/libraebakery
its rly buzzy but theres no waits or anything and they always have good stock

like lafayette has good basics--their scone and whatever wahtevers r all pretty good but nothing of particular note

the supreme (the circular croissant) is not worth at all

• its super super super sweet
• i like croissants bc u have the light crispiness of the outside WITH the buttery inner soft fluffy part. the lafayette one is just a crunchy shell but the interior isnt soft at all, its just completely filled w the sweet pastry cream
• since its just a crunchy shell with rly sweet filling, it gets soggy in like an hr
• to me its designed with aesthetic and virality in mind, rather than for taste

i think when i got it i ate half, couldnt eat any more bc of how sweet it was, and threw the rest away bc i realized it wldnt survive me bringing it home

so u line up at the drop times with a bunch of tourists and ig girlies just to get a sort of bleh and overly sweet thing.

its ideologically just the followup to the cronut and to supermoon bakehouse (which is the nyc branch of mr holmes bakehouse in sf which apparently has shuttered)
i dont like the cronut bc its too sweet, and i find supermoon bakehouse actively gross in how sweet it is
but those 2 have the same thing in diff shapes u can get for much less effort

croissants w hella cream filling <<<

gimmick/for the gram croissants <<<

cronuts was actually pretty fire but think it’s cause the ones in bay are just alright so i had low expectations

librae look fire

i think dominique ansel is a rly rly talented baker for sure

ya they have a lot of cool flavor combos and stuff that i think sets it apart from other spots

i will say i think the la cabra plain croissant is definitely going to be better than a librae plain croissant, but libraes flavor combos and stuff are much more interesting

la cabra and librae r also fairly close 2gether 👀

i have beene ating

stir fry potato thewoksoflife.com/sichuan-stir-fried-potatoes
need to shop for a better recipe for this its not hitting yet

this guy instagram.com/p/CqIsXG8j9mm was hosting a free food thing so i went for the free food
ft various street food vendors from corona plaza as part of the street vendor project
wish they posted deets abt each vendor but they didnt so heres just waht we got

tlayudas (v good, first time having one actually filled w bean)

chicharron preparado (first time having, we got one topped w more pig skin and one w chicken meat)

pozole

4 types of tamale--this lady is a 3rd generation tamale maker
we got chicken jalapeno, mole, etc.

3 types of atole-- walnut, strawb, and pistach
walnut tasted like sticky toffee pudding

overall jody liked the chicharron the best i was a big fan of the pozole i think, super flavorful

mao mao (thai spot w retro thai movies, retro thai soundtrack, etc)

beef laab plus pork/pork skin sausage. sausage was fire, laab wasnt that good to keep it a buck. i think the flavors were fine but the beef was kinda tough and anemic. maybe a diff protein is better
moo na nao (cooked pork in a spicy sauce) was rly good but forgot pics. felt very similar to their laab in presentation but the sauce was different. plus this was warm and pork was tender
leng zabb (spicy pork rib soup)
honestly this was fire. it was really really good. really sour, really spicy, pork was fall off the bone