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Just spent 10 days in NYC and New Orleans for a wedding and short visit to friends.
Aside from all of the pastrami sandwiches I could eat. (NYC) and as a 3 beignet/day minimum during my time in the new Orleans I didn't really know where to go. Luckily I had friends in both places to help me out.
The best meal that I had in NY was Chinese which was surprising to me. Xi'an Famous Foods in new york is the god damned place. It's semi well known I think (but I hadn't heard of it before [so much for my ear-to-the-streets status]). Spicy noodles with caraway lamb is exactly the thing.
In New Orleans, our friend took us around and we ate and ate and ate. Po Boys, raw oysters, thin fried catfish, fried chicken livers and hog jowls and cetera. Still my favorite food came out of the little vietnamese place we went for breakfast on my last day there. I have been craving bún bò Huê almost since moving to Berlin 5 years ago*. I finally got it and was happy. The broth. The tastes. mmm.
*It was a staple for lunch when I lived in the bay area. I have asked around in Berlin and never found it. The closest I got was at a little place that said they tried to serve it as a special and literally nobody ordered it. They told me a back stall at the Vietnamese center you can get it. I am going to try to get out there again and see. Still, there is no way it is better than that place.