if you saw me crying on the subway this morning no you didn’t 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲
A group of us
@sendchinatownlove have spent the past 2 years compiling a cookbook and narrative collection archiving the stories of over 40 NYC restaurants and food businesses, and it’s finally ready to share with you.
In it, you’ll find recipes like
@pecking_house ’s dirty fried rice,
@chodanggol ’s spicy galbi jjim,
@thaidiner ’s som tum,
@banhnyc ’s Viet seafood noodle stew,
@goldendinerny ’s sesame scallion milk bun breakfast sando,
@punjabidelinyc ’s chana & sarson ka saag,
@yoshoku.nyc ’s borscht curry udon noodles & chili crisp pelmeni,
@falansai ’s lamb skewers w fish sauce honey glaze,
@insabrooklyn ’s seafood corn dog,
@fatchoyworld ’s veggie longevity noodles,…. thoughts on the various communities that have established themselves in Flushing, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, lower Manhattan…. cultural diasporas that can only exist in the way they do here in NYC, like Manhattan’s Chino-Latino community, or the intersection of Thai, Chinese, and Dominican flavors embodied by everything
@forsythfireescape is churning out, as well as a peek into the complex world of Asian produce supply chains that keep many of NYC’s restaurants stocked,… and all of this only scratches the surface!!!!
You won’t notice Phaidon’s signature phi on this book’s spine, nor will you catch Ten Speed’s winged wheel, Random House’s penguin, or any other colophon for that matter, other than our own. We knowingly stepped into a process none of us knew all that much about in self-publishing this 352-page behemoth. And had we worked with a publisher, we likely would’ve run into significantly fewer hiccups (lessons!!!) along the way. It was important to us, however, that the money coming into our organization from this book go back to the merchants and residents of the communities our organization was founded to support.
With that, I hope you’ll grab a copy for your kitchen or coffee table—link in the bio for a few more days while preorders are still open ❤️
