Andi Berlin

Like Shakespeare, I’ve coined a new phrase to use when describing deviled eggs, which are the world’s most perfect food … The “custardy mustardy part” refers to that heavenly yolk center, which here is topped with caviar because hell, it’s been a month.

I rate Long Island’s caviar delights from least to most delicious in my latest @newsdayfeedme article, out today. This one is from @shands.general and while it’s not my number one pick, I freaking loooooved it.

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“Next time you’re walking around Huntington village thinking about what to eat for dinner, may we suggest going to @ikka.li to see the biryani in a tube ... It’s rather dark inside the new restaurant, but when a server comes out carrying a half-charred tube made from bamboo, pay attention, because they’re about to pour the steaming rice from its cooking vessel into a serving bowl.

By the time we saw it, we’d already eaten our fill of coriander cakes and a deeply spiced goat curry served in a miniature pressure cooker that’s cracked open at the table. But the Thalassery chicken bamboo biryani ($28) is just one of the many spectacles at this ambitious Indian restaurant and cocktail bar.”

This is one to watch!!!

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This feisty little gem deserves a spot on the grid, mostly because it kicked my ass but also because I’m surprised it was this good. I wanted to show my friend Ben something good to eat in Elmhurst, and I was planning to take him to the Taiwanese place with the hot and sour soup, or the Indonesian ramen place or maybe some Thai or Vietnamese, but he zeroed in on this place and said “it spoke to him.”

Turns out, “this is better than Sripraphai,” according to the faded old Village Voice article by @rsietsema tacked to the wall. That’s a compelling statement but I’m convinced it’s true after one taste of that fatty pork neck!!! It was almost like charcuterie, whoa. But the spicy beef tom Zaab soup ripped open another dimension and left us stumbling around for half an hour, crying for Athena to save us. Is this place a Trojan horse???? Less

I dunno if this has ever happened to you, but I went into a vintage store today to get a new pair of jeans, and I must have tried on eight different pairs before I realized nothing in the store was going to fit me. I left the place so frustrated that I decided to go to a barre class that evening. Which was great, but when I was leaving, a woman on the street asked me if I was having a girl. 😭 My barre studio is in Long Island City and after a workout, I always want some form of Chinese food that I can claim is healthy. So I stepped into @huponyc for some dry pot, and holy mother of everything that is good … This was the finest dry pot I’ve ever eaten in my life. The fish was so delicate, the mala flavor so dialed in. I know that dry pot is oily but I ordered it without rice. As a professional and passionate eater, I just have such a difficult time managing my weight. And I have no idea if this helped or not, but damn, did it freaking taste good. Less

Newsday published my article on @gasalongthai.ny in Great Neck, Long Island this week, and I’m saying now, this is one to watch. I just went for lunch by myself, but I left thinking I want to come back with more people and try more of the Northern Thai dishes from the menu. I was really impressed by the beautiful lanterns, sophisticated restaurant design and interesting dishes from Chiang Mai. It honestly reminded me of my brother’s old restaurant Glai Baan in Phoenix. Link in bio for what to order.

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The @newsdayfeedme team just put out our best dishes we ate this April. I wrote about a stellar breakfast sandwich, and this fish …

The fish pollichathu was the highlight of a recent lunch at the new @crown_of_spices in Levittown. The kitchen specializes in Southern Indian recipes from Tamil Nadu, and whoa!!!! I’ve been Googling all week to find more restaurants like this. I don’t want to give too much away but I’ll just say the one thing that got deleted from my blurb, holy schnikes!

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This article came out while I was on vacation and I’m just now posting about it, but just look at this fabulous plate of pork bossam. Some of the pieces were so fatty, I felt absurd eating them. It’s like straight pork fat. But I took most of it home and even used some of the fatty bits to cook sweet potatoes.

Read more about the two new Korean spots in Port Washington at the link in my bio.

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I convinced my editors to let me do a Brooklyn taco crawl, and they put it on the cover!

I’m so proud of this one, as you can see I’m going back to my roots and writing about tacos. For a little while, I felt like I was back in Tucson again, except for the fact that it was like 25 degrees outside at the time, which made it slightly challenging to spend seven hours walking around Greenpoint and eating tacos.

Thanks to Laura for helping me at @bordertownbk and @frijolerosbk. And thanks to @emmarosemilligan for the gorgeous photos in the @newsdayfeedme magazine, edited by @janelear1 . It’s available to subscribers, so if you’d like to read it online, tap the link in my bio. Less

More evidence that you should not be ordering tacos at most Mexican places in New York. Because there are other more delicious things on the menu, like cemitas! The sandwich of Puebla, stacked so beautifully here, is spicy, sweet, buttery, savory, creamy, cheesy! Oh my gosh it’s fantastic.

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@tacos.loscielitos , Hicksville

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