With the devastating news yesterday that Hot Doug’s will be closing in October, I felt it only fitting to pay tribute to them with photos of their delicious delicious sausages.
These photos were taken on August 26, 2009.
Earlier this year – January, to be specific – Justin came down for the kind of weekend where we just basically eat and drink to our hearts’ content. On a night where we’d end up at Minetta Tavern for their $26 Black Label burger, we decided to go cheap during the day. That basically meant a food tour though Flushing with one of those stops being the $1 Peking Duck bun stand. Honestly, you’d be a fool not to stop here when you’re in Flushing – well, unless you don’t like duck. For $1, you get tasty duck meat and crispy, fatty duck skin wrapped in a steamed bun with scallions, cucumbers, and a smidgen of hoisin sauce. We were fortunate enough to stop by when they were just getting ready to carve and slice through a fresh duck. A total win for us!
This photo was taken on January 16, 2010.
For the first time in my entire life, my family did a home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner that didn’t take place at home. This year, we had our feast at my brother’s apartment in LIC, which makes sense since he ends up doing the brunt of the cooking anyway. And it’s definitely a win for me since his apartment is a much shorter trip from Astoria than it is all the way to the southern part of Brooklyn. The feast is what’s become the usual fare for us at Thanksgiving – turkey, cornbread dressing with mushrooms and andouille sausage, brussel sprouts, mashed potatoes (truffle oil instead of roasted garlic this year), ham, kale, and cranberry sauce. Even as I type this out, I’m still working on finishing the leftovers!
These photos were taken on November 25, 2010.
This is the turkey we had for dinner last Thanksgiving, a turkey we hadn’t planned on having but ended up making anyway. We were gonna do a Chinese-heavy Thanksgiving dinner since my brother was moving into his new apartment the day before and wasn’t inclined as such to go the whole traditional Thanksgiving route. But the fates conspired to force him into the kitchen for hours when our father’s friend gave him a frozen turkey. I mean, what were we gonna do, not cook it? Thus, we ended up doing a Thanksgiving that was pretty much the same as it always is in the Wong household – some traditional, some Chinese, all good.
And on that note, Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Eat well – I know I will!
This photo was taken on November 26, 2009.
My second trip to San Francisco in 2008 came with it a second visit to PPQ Dungeness Island for what I think is the best dungeness crab in the city. On our first trip, Justin and I came here because we figured we had to have dungeness crab while we were out there but we didn’t know where to go so this just became the place to go based on online accolades. Well, the praise was well deserved because the crab and the remainder of the meal was just perfect for the two of us and at a moderately decent price. When I went back out there a few months later, my co-worker Sonu, also out there for WWDC, heard me sing PPQ’s praises and really wanted to go. Fine by me. We just couldn’t find any time to do it and as the WWDC closing party/concert dragged on, it seemed like we just might not be able to get it in before Sonu’s flight home the next afternoon. Thankfully, the band wrapped up and we hopped into a cab, getting there less than a half hour before their kitchen was set to close for the evening. Mission accomplished!
This photo was taken on June 12, 2008.
