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Pick Up The Fork

A Serious Eater's Guide to Buenos Aires and Beyond

An Open Letter to Maní Japonés

Posted on September 25, 2012 5 Comments

An Open Letter to Maní Japonés

Dear Maní Japonés, I love your salty, crunchy morsels of peanuty wonder. I don’t know what makes you Japanese, but you certainly are addictively delicious. I’m glad you are served in homemade plastic see-through packaging, without any nutritional facts on the label, because I’m sure if I saw what you were really made of, I’d feel extra […]

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BBQ Town: Korean BBQ Right In Your Backyard

Posted on October 25, 2011 29 Comments

BBQ Town: Korean BBQ Right In Your Backyard

Barrio Chino, my culinary mecca, and home to many disappointing Chinese restaurants (except Asia Oriental counter and Hong Kong Style), has now just gotten a lot more interesting: spicy kimchee, beautiful bulgogi, more than 25 small plates of hot and cold dishes, soup, oysters, bacon, shrimp, lettuce wraps, dumplings – I could go on and on. […]

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Barrio Chino Stock Up

Posted on March 10, 2011 10 Comments

Barrio Chino Stock Up

Barrio Chino is one of my favorite places in Buenos Aires where I still get excited every time I visit.  Pathetic? Maybe. Hard to find imported products kinda get me off. This time around I picked up the following items: Coconut milk, mango chutney (not that good), Asahi beer, Sriracha, tofu, lemongrass, Kikkoman soy sauce bc […]

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Barrio Chino, Buenos Aires: A Culinary Mecca

Posted on February 7, 2011 16 Comments

Barrio Chino, Buenos Aires: A Culinary Mecca

Despite the fact that Barrio Chino, or China Town, takes up only 2 blocks in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, it still remains a favorite destination in the city.  It’s basically my version of Disney World, where you can find anything from tofu to hot chili peppers to lemongrass to sriracha to many more delectable (and not […]

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Chinese Food Hong Kong Style

Posted on September 25, 2010 15 Comments

Chinese Food Hong Kong Style

Barrio Chino has tons of restaurants to choose from.  Some good, some bad, some with chicken feet displayed in the window, and others with empanadas and milanesas on the menu.  Hong Kong Style offers a huge variety of the greasy Chinese food persuasion that I hold so dear to my heart. The menu includes pages and […]

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Cashew Stir Fried Noodles

Posted on August 30, 2010 Leave a Comment

Time to take my WOK out of retirement.  With an intense urge for American style Chinese food, I didn’t want to be disappointed by the crapness delivery services in my area.  After eating the best Chinese food I’ve had in BA a few weeks ago, I knew it would be difficult to get up to […]

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Curry in a hurry

Posted on May 2, 2010 Leave a Comment

Once I tried to smuggle Indian food into a movie theater. Wasn’t the best idea for many reasons: The smell, this one is a given… I reeked of Indian spices, as if I bathed in pungent coriander and tumeric stew, liberally rubbing garam masala as a body scrub.

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The Buenos Aires Barrio Chino Food Crawl

Posted on January 3, 2010 4 Comments

The Buenos Aires Barrio Chino Food Crawl

The challenge: food hop around Buenos Aires’ Barrio Chino (China Town), visiting the best restaurants in Barrio Chino, to take the ultimate Chinese-inspired food tour. I attempted to visit as many restaurants as possible, to try all that Barrio Chino has to offered, determining which restaurants in China Town are worth visiting, and which are […]

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