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Saigon Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Saigon Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 10, 2022April 10, 2022

According to some stereotypes, when you eat Chinese food, you’ll be hungry an hour later.    That stereotype is known as the “Chinese food paradox.”   One of the culprits behind that stereotype is rice, a very starchy food which metabolizes quickly.  Others blame monosodium glutamate (MSG) when hunger creeps in…

Bamboo by Kulantro – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Bamboo by Kulantro – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 9, 2022April 27, 2022

Hawaiian pizza, black licorice, blue cheese, anchovies, candy corn, cilantro…these are among the pantheon of foods Readers Digest says everyone either loves or hates. And by “everyone,” Readers Digest includes such culinary glitterati as Julia Child who expressed her loathing for for cilantro in a 2002 interview with Larry King.…

SAIGON CITY – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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SAIGON CITY – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoApril 2, 2022April 7, 2022

My brother in blogging Ryan Cook describes his first day in Vietnam: “So, my first stop in Vietnam was the capital, Hanoi. My honest first impressions… what the hell have I let myself in for. Seriously…The roads are chaos! The ride from the airport to the hostel was basically 40…

Cafe Nom Nom – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Cafe Nom Nom – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoMarch 4, 2022March 12, 2022

“Nom nom.” It sounds innocent enough. Parents–yes, including parents of four-legged fur babies–utter it in baby talk intonations to get our children to eat something, especially when that something is “good for them” but doesn’t actually look or taste good. Nom nom was, of course, the favorite expression of Sesame…

Thai Boran – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Thai Boran – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoFebruary 11, 2022February 17, 2022

Many of us with a puerile sense of humor can probably recall giggling like silly school kids the first time we visited a Thai restaurant and perused a menu. We went straight into the gutter the first time we came across such foods as phat prik and fuktong curry. Even…

Zu Hot Pot – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Zu Hot Pot – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoJanuary 17, 2022February 4, 2022

“You have tattoos and others have piercings, but for me, there’s nothing that says more about me than the food I choose to carry every single day. As a kid trying to maintain my identity in America, my Chinese was passable, my history was shaky, but I could taste something…

Roy’s Restaurant – Phoenix, Arizona
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Roy’s Restaurant – Phoenix, Arizona

Gil GardunoDecember 25, 2021January 13, 2022

“Viejo El Viento,” one of my favorite songs during my youth in Peñasco asked “como vas a comparar el original con la copia?,” essentially how can you compare the original with a copy.  As our Christmas visit to Roy’s at the JW Mariott in Phoenix proved, sometimes the “copy” is…

Pho Bar – Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Pho Bar – Rio Rancho, New Mexico

Gil GardunoDecember 8, 2021December 13, 2021

“In food, as in death, we feel the essential brotherhood of man” – Vietnamese Proverb Western sensitivities cause even those among us who consider ourselves gustatorily open-minded to utter an “ick” or two at what is culinarily acceptable–even considered delicious–in other cultures. Some of us would recoil in disgust at…

Lime Vietnamese Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Lime Vietnamese Restaurant – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoNovember 25, 2021December 2, 2021

Kevin: What am I looking at here? Donna: It’s pho. Kevin: It’s what? Donna: Pho. Kevin: Well pho looks like a clogged sink. What are those chunks floating around in there? What is that? Donna: It’s chicken. You love chicken. Kevin: Do they make this outside? What is this? <pulls…

Sushi Freak – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Sushi Freak – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoNovember 20, 2021December 12, 2021

Somewhere in Japan generations of traditional sushi chefs are rolling in their graves…and they’re not rolling sushi.  What set them off?  No one knows for sure, but it could have been a 2014 article in the San Diego Reader in which Jennifer Duarte, the co-owner of a San Diego based…

Kitsune – Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Kitsune – Albuquerque, New Mexico

Gil GardunoOctober 31, 2021November 19, 2022

Here are a few tips if you’ve got  a trip planned to Japan and would like to practice terms to convey your enthusiasm for the delicious meals you’re sure to experience,    After your first bite, use the term “umai” to express how delicious that first bite was. As you…

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