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This week on Let's Eat In Cathy hosts ethnic food fanatics Wendy Chan and Joe DiStefano to discuss the goings-on in NYC's most ethnically delicious borough, Queens. The Asian Feastival is coming up, and the gang discuss why there is no better place to have it than Flushing Queens. The Feastival is a one day culinary explosion--a series of events and tastings and discussions all taking place on September 6th starting at noon. Give a listen and find out what these ethnic foodies would make for their special someone on a date. This episode was sponsored by Fairway: like no other market.
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The Asian Feastival w/ Wendy and Joe (14:40)
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Wendy Chan, Asian Feastival, Joe DiStefano, Orange Hi-Tops, Queens, Orange is the Mets color, why is it the right time for the Asian Feastival?, recruiting a large number of Asian Restaurants to be in the same event, the best place to have it is in Flushing Queens because its essentially Asia!, there are a lot of immigrants that have gone out of the way to procure the exact ingrediants sauces and condiments from home, you can get exactly what you get in the back streets of Taipei, people may find Queens ethnic food daunting, Leah Mclaughlin, Edible Queens, Yak, fostering an Asian community that is not just about being Chinese or Japanese or Korean etc, helping foreign governments promote their cuisine in America, education and exposure is important, Asian Fusion, Bounty is a Sri Lankan Restaurant in Flushing, there is not a lot of intermixing, MNT is Tsing Dao food with high standards of freshness and cleanliness, Wendy really appreciates people that don't comprimise on their qualit, at the end of the day there are a lot people that love and want real Asian food but don't know where to find it, the Feastival is a curated show, small restaurants are targeted by people trying to rip them off and so are very cautious, bringing value and profile to smaller and deservfing restaurans=ts, one goal of the Feastivali is to distinguish what is Sri Lankan or Indonesian etc, Cathy is doing a farmer's market talk, Fuzzy Melon, Joe's walking tour, the infamous shopping mall, head cheese from China?, lamb face salad, Queens Crossing to show the newer upscale side of Flushing thats emerged in the last two years,Durians and Dates (14:33)
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Fairway Markets, Wendy is a rooftop gardener, rooftop gardening is time-intensive, internationally ingredients are more important, the basis of good food is the best and freshest ingredients, never writing a menu until you have your ingredients is common sense, in Asia there are still people shopping from the Wet Market which is like a farmers market except its their way of life, fish swimming in basins of water, meat hauled on a bicycle and butchered at the Wet Market, convenience is so prized in America we want something that tastes like its fresh but takes no time to make, Joe does not cook a lot, the last thing Joe made was shrimp and grits while working as a line cook at Jimmys 43, the last thing Wendy cooked was Ox tail with red wine, Wendy personally makes sure every program in the feastival is short and sweet but wth depth to it, aroma is a natural attractive aspect of food, Durian fruit are notoriously stinky, Durians are banned in Singapore, Dragon Fruit, Joe's most date worthy food for a fun date is Ice Fire Land a Taiwanese hot pot restaurant in Flushing, Wendy would take her husband to a Japanese restaurant called Kazuno in Forest Hills, AsianFeastival.com, tickets are online now!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
