Lunch Break: Asian Delights
Chinese, Korean, Japanese: explore Asia with these delights in today's New York Lunch Break. By Yvo Sin.
Cha An
230 E 9th St
New York, NY 10079
(212) 228-8030
chaanteahouse.com
Cha An, the Japanese teahouse, is a great place to take a moment and reflect upon your week. How's it going? How will it finish? You can ponder these questions and more while you soak in your tranquil surroundings; choose a tea from the extensive list, but the best deal is the lunch set. For $10, you get genmaicha (roasted rice green tea), a side and the special of the day (Wednesday begets chicken teriyaki over rice). If that doesn't strike your fancy, there are other tea seats on the menu that surely will win you over to the tea drinkers' side. Bliss.
Bo Ky
80 Bayard St
New York, NY 10013
(212) 406-2292
Bo Ky offers authentic Chinese food at super reasonable prices; pass a five to the counterlady and you'll likely get enough food to easily feed you for two meals. Try the pork chop over rice, or the duck leg over rice, both succulently juicy enough to sustain you through the white rice underneath. Barring those, just about any of the noodle soups are sure to please - pictured, the curry noodle soup with wontons, just another one of the many delicious noodle soups. Try them all!
BCD Tofu House
17 W 32nd St
New York, NY 10001
(212) 967-1900
BCS Tofu House is known for its rather generous outpouring of banchan (pictured), or the small appetizer plates that are served at Korean restaurants with every meal, free. It is also known for its incredibly seafood tofu soup, served boiling hot in small cast iron pots that will burn you if you touch them when they're served - but you probably don't want to order that in this weather. If not, there's always the steak tartare dish - thin slices of beef, slicked with sesame oil, and served with skinny slices of Asian pear, a quail egg yolk perched atop the tangle of beef slices... Cold, delicious, and refreshing on a hot day. Sometimes it even arrives still slightly frozen... yum, perfect!
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Yvo Sin is the founder and head writer of The Feisty Foodie.
