Rice Dishes – C H E W I N G T H E F A T

Thai Basil Minced Pork

I am crazy about Asian food for so many reasons. There are so many flavors at work in Asian cuisine and so many ways of putting them together. Asian Food generally requires as much cooking time as it does prep time. It works best when […]

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My latest Travel Article for Travel-Wise has just been published. And with it, a recipe for Bali’s most popular dish.

In March, I took an amazing trip, some of which I have already shared on Chewing The Fat. But before I boarded Silversea’s Silver Muse for my culinary odyssey in Bali, Borneo and the Philippines, I spent a magical five days in Bali itself. It […]

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Cumin-Lime Shrimp with Ginger and Garlic Fried Rice

My friend Lorna said she thought I should focus some attention on seafood cookery. She’s convinced that most people don’t have a clue how to move beyond their one recipe for sword fish. Or tuna. Or flounder. That, when confronted with any other fish, they […]

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Dinner Party Dishes: Vegetable Biryani

After I published this post, I shared it on Jonell Galloway’s Facebook page “Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway, The Rambling Epicure”. One of Jonell’s readers got involved when I mentioned the multiple spellings of “biryani” and Jonell asked whether it was the English spelling of […]

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Baked Rice with Chicken and Mushrooms from David Tanis in the New York Times

They line up down the block the Halal Guys Chicken and Rice Chicken and Rice in one form or another may be one the world’s most ubiquitous foods. You can find it in many guises. Claypot Chicken Rice is popular from Southern China to Singapore […]

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Review of Fatty Crab and a recipe for a one-dish wonder called Nasi Goreng with Shrimp

I can’t get enough of Fatty Crab www.fattycrab.com 2170Broadway (76th-77th St.)212-496-2722 for reservations or https://www.opentable.com/), the spinoff of the original West Village restaurant (634 Hudson Street, between Horatio and Gansevoort Sts., 212 352-3592 (No reservations are taken). Now that it’s made the trek north […]