NEW YORK CITY RESTAURANT DANNY'S LIST

PIZZA   XI'AN   PULLED NOODLES    
motorino in williamsburg has really good pizza (neopolitan-style individual pies). 319 graham avenue. (brooklyn) if you're looking for a slice, i recommend the artichoke slice at artichoke, 328 e. 14th st. (manhattan)

xi'an famous foods in the east village is doing a type of chinese food (xi'an) that is almost impossible to find anywhere else. it's known for the lamb dishes and the heat. 81 st. mark's place (manhattan).

hole-in-the-wall hand-pulled noodle place is lan zhou handmade noodle. get an order of dumplings and any of the soups. the soups themselves are eh, but the noodles in them are excellent. 144 east broadway. (manhattan)

if you're feeling like an odyssey, spicy and tasty in flushing is known as the best szechuan in the city. it is very good. 39-07 prince street. (queens).

if you want to go higher-end on the noodles, check out ippudo, the city's best ramen at 65 4th ave (manhattan). it's pricy for a bowl of soup, but oh man, what a dish. if you go, make sure to get the kaedama (extra noodles). there's also a new place that's getting a whole lot of love on the noodle front called hung ry at 55 bond st (manhattan), but i haven't been there yet. http://nymag.com/restaurants/reviews/underground/70038/

for tacos, there are a lot of good places, but one i really like lately is la superior in williamsburg. it's young and fun and the food is delicious. 295 berry st. (brooklyn)

LYON RESTO LE BEC

14 rue Grolee,

69002 Lyon, France

04 78 42 15 35 | www.nicolaslebec.com

I finally went out to a real restaurant with Danny on the 16th of December. It was my last day of classes before the holiday break. This trip to Le Bec was well worth it. The Menu dropped down to 85 euros(it used to be around the 130 mark) and we drank a bottle of White Voignier for 30 after having glasses of the stuff for an apperatif. In retrospect, we should have started with the bottle and then finish it before the cheese plates came out at which point we could have switched to glasses of Red (20/20 hindsight). The food was delcious and by the end of the meal I was stuffed. (stay away from the bread at all costs because you'll never make it to the 2nd dessert).

PARIS RESTAURANTS le BARATIN (Belleville)

LE BARATIN (Bellevile) ligne 12 belleville
3, rue Jouye Rouve
Paris 20 (75020)

TÉL : +33 1 43 49 39 70

This place was recommended by a foodie friend of mine. It has a nice calm decor  and the food is hearty but the protions are not huge, (am I contradicting myself?) the meal was pretty good. I had the soupe aux pois cassés and after the joue de veaux au vin rouge avec des gnocchis (amazingly tender). I waltzed out of there after having a great class of red (Provence 1999) and a decent coffee for 25 euros. a bit pricey but then again I'm in paris. apperently this place was just reviewed in the NYTimes. you have to reserve for both dinner and lunch. Belleville is a great place to explore. it is right next to a sort of china town and around the bottom of the hill it is pretty artsy with cool scultures and art gallaries and printshops. The parc at the top of the hill is pretty amazing and offers a mind blowing view of Mont Martre from this sort of Italien gazeebo on the top of a butte  

PARIS RESTAURANTS SONG HENG

VIET
Song Heng
3 rue Volta 3em Paris (arret metro l'art et metier ligne 11/between Chatellet and Belleville)

this vietnamese resto/cantine is mindblowingly simple and good. 2 dishes in 2 sizes are available for 7-8 euros. it isn't marked but beer is 2.70 and tea is .60 cents. super friendly service as well.
someone with a much better blog than me captures it beautifully (in french but the photos are great)

http://foodandfashion.over-blog.com/article-paris-song-heng-53634071.html

semi-full treatment

IGBY GOES DOWN-usa-the Catcher in the Rye put in modern day film
RIDICULE-france-patrice lecomte-period piece about the court of louis XIV
AMORES PERROS-mexicain-all stories tied together-dog fighting,guerilla fighter,model in accident
LES TRIPLETS DE BELLEVILLE-canadian-animation about paris
EL BOLA-spain-small kid moves in with neighbors family after experiencing abuse
LOS ZAPATISTAS-mex/french documentary
DIARIOS DE MOTOCYCLETA/motocycle diaries-El Che played by Garcia Bernal
FANTASTIC MR. FOX-dir wes anderson- clooney, bill murray, meryl streep

full treatment films

HABLA CON ELLA/talk to her-almodovar
TODO SOBRE MI MADRE/all about my mother-almodovar
LA HAINE/hate-
LES GLEANEURS ET LA GLANEUSE-french documentary about gleaning food
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN
LUCIA Y EL SEXO
TWIGHLIGHT SAMURAI
DELICATESSEN
THE BIG LEBOWSKI

thai coconut chicken

this is a recipe I have dabbled with over the past few years. I created it from my own imagination and it took on an indian feel using cardemom and cinnemon but I have gone back to its thai roots (with a little help of online recipes). here is what I have
1 liter of water
1 liter of coconut milk
2 onions thinly sliced
one clove of garlic minced
10 drumsticks with skin
a ton of carrots thinly sliced
10 kaffir lime leaves
3 sticks of lemon grass cut into 3 pieces
2 big teaspoons of green curry paste
2 big pieces of galanga (about 5cm each) peeled and thinly sliced
3 teaspoons of salt
ground pepper to your liking

stirfry onions in sesame oil in a big pressure cooker. add water/coconut milk/chicken (with skin)/carrots/all seasonings and pressure cook for 10 minutes. while this is going, make rice on the side and sprinkle with finely cut mint leaves

DO NOT ADD
    soy sauce/fish sauce
    ginger

this recipe can be served to just about anyone. Add more green paste if you like it spicy.
divide the bowl/plate in 2 and have one side as the rice and the other as the soup and I mean SOUP
possible things to add
      sweet red pepers (probably cooked on the side so as to not fall about in the pressure cooker
      different vegetable-green beans, leeks, etc