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Recent restaurants

Some recent restaurants I've eaten at since moving to New York:

• Dosa Diner - in Jackson Heights, Queens, one of my new favorite places, in the Little India section. I had a great dosa with chili and paneer. They also had Desi-Chinese food, including one dish that surprised me, Hakka Noodles. I'll have to try that next time.
• Wu Liang Ye - on 48th St between 6th & 5th Ave. Great Sichuan food, a slightly different flavor than Little Sichuan in San Mateo. I think I like the flavor of Little Sichuan slightly more, but Wu Liang Ye has a great variety of dishes I've never seen before. Today I got deep-fried fish skins. Yummy!
• Russian Vodka Room - on 52nd St, between 8th and Broadway. This seems like a quintessential Manhattan place. It's small, trendy, has live music, and just a feel to it so that you might imagine you are in a movie and Woody Allen is there having a conversation with a group of intellectuals and a girl much too young for him. This restaurants has a huge selection of vodka, and they make their own flavored vodka too! I had one with a dill and spice flavored one, it was like drinking vodka while smelling a pickle.
• Beautiful Bukura - One of the many Russian Jewish places on 108th St by my apartment (about a 20 minute walk or a short bus ride). I believe it is specifically Uzbeki, like all of the other places around. Cheap - a huge bread for $1, skewers of meats and vegetables for $2-$5 a piece, great soups, and interesting drinks (I had a tarragon-flavored soda). Everything is delicious, too! I'm sure I'll be going back there, or at least ordering food delivered. That's one of the great things about here - almost everywhere delivers.
• Golden Pond - a great Chinese Cantonese-style restaurant with tons of live seafood. You can tell it's good because the tanks of live fish, crabs, shrimp, etc. look so pristine. I've only gone there once, but the food was excellent!