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Rasika

Cost: 
$$$ - Pricy

Location

Rasika
633 D St NW Chinatown
Washington, DC
United States
38° 53' 41.8488" N, 77° 1' 16.7196" W

Great modern Indian cuisine

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Flying Fish Restaurant

Cost: 
$$ - Average

Location

Flying Fish
815A King St Old Town
Alexandria, VA
United States
38° 48' 19.8792" N, 77° 2' 55.5108" W

Flyin Fish has some of the best West Coast style sushi (lots of spicy sauce, tempura, roe, non-traditional presentations...). Don't go there for strictly traditional sushi and you'll love it!

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Aatish On the Hill

Cost: 
$ - Cheap

Location

Aatish
609 Pennsylvania Ave SE Capitol Hill
Washington, DC
United States
38° 53' 6.5868" N, 76° 59' 52.6632" W

(202) 544-0931
www.aatishonhill.com/

Aatish is pretty authentic northwestern Indian/Pakistani food and a great neighborhood go-to spot.

Your rating: None Average: 3 (1 vote)

MV Spices Chai Recipe

When we were in India, we visited MV Spices and bought a lot of Indian spices (probably at tourist prices), including a spice mix for Indian Chai (tea). The ingredients listed on the tea bag are:

Cardamom
Cinnamon
Ginger
Nutmeg
Black Pepper
Clove

The recipe, copied from the back of the bag, is as follows:

2 cups water
1 spoon tea (black tea)
Little tea spice
2 spoons sugar

Boil 5 minutes
Add hot milk (or dry milk)
Boil 3 minutes
Filter and serve.

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Crab Rangoon

All I can say is this crab rangoon recipe is ... delicious!! Shamelessly stolen.

Obviously, this is a "notional" recipe.

Ingredients
Roughly equal parts cream cheese (at room temperature) and imitation crab meat (chopped up)
(Go a little heavy on the cream cheese)
Chopped green onion
Dash garlic powder
Smaller dash soy sauce
Enough won ton wrappers (recommend cutting them in half and makings smaller pouches)

Process
Mix ingredients together (except won ton wrappers).

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Steamed buns with Pork Belly

Pork Buns

While the entire recipe is far too insanely complicated to repost here, it comes from the Momofuku cookbook.

The ingredients are
steamed buns
roasted pork belly
scallions
sweet pickles
hoisin and siracha sauces

The candied crispies from the roasting of the pork make a fantastic condiment to the buns

Your rating: None Average: 5 (2 votes)

Thai-Spiced Watermelon Soup with Crabmeat

Thai-Spiced Watermelon Soup with Crabmeat

From http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Thai-Spiced-Watermelon-Soup...

For soup
5 cups coarsely chopped seeded watermelon (from a 4-lb piece, rind discarded)
1 fresh lemongrass stalk*
3 tablespoons finely chopped shallot
1 1/2 tablespoons finely chopped peeled fresh ginger
1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
1 1/2 tablespoons mild olive oil
1 small hot green chile such as Thai or serrano, finely chopped (including seeds), or to taste
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice, or to taste
3/4 teaspoon salt, or to taste

For crab

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Udon Soup with Prawns and Poached Egg

Udon Soup Before Broth

So, there's this Japanese movie, Tampopo, all about a woman's quest to serve the perfect noodle soup in her small roadside soup shop. If nothing else, its an interesting look at Japanese food culture.

Anyway, inspired by that and memories of walking by this (Japanese, I think) soup shop ever day we were in Paris last year, I decided we should try and make Japanese. soup. Our local bodega, P&C Market, sells Japanese noodles (both soba and udon), so we gave it a whirl. It actually turned out pretty good for the first shot.

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Dashi (Japanese Seaweed Stock)

Dashi

This is a basic recipe for dashi, or seaweed stock (as I would describe it). It is the basis for many Japanese soup recipes. I consider the American equivalent (not in flavor, but in use) to be chicken stock.

* 4 large strips of Dried Kombu (dried kelp), cut into roughly 4x4 inch squares
* 1 Tbsp mushroom buillon base
* 6 cups of cold water
* 6 dried shiitake mushrooms

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Fried Rice

This recipe is meant to mimic the fried rice of my favorite LA Chinese restaurant - Yang Chow (or Hunam, as it was called in my youth). The key feature is that it isn't loaded down with soy sauce. Your diners can always add it post-cooking.

Serves 4 as a side dish:

Ingredients
1 cup chinese/short-grain rice, cooked (Put 1 cup rice, 1.5 cups water in pot. Bring to boil. Reduce to simmer. Cover and cook for 20 minutes.) and fluffed with spoon or fork
2 eggs, lightly beaten

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