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New York Magazine 
Where Super Chefs Shop in New York City |
How do you shop like a chef? You ferret out the best ingredients at off-the-beaten-path specialty shops and ethnic markets... We asked a few kitchen pros to share their secret sources for fresh kaffir limes and elusive pasta shapes that are worth paying retail for. |
By Robin Raisfeld & Rob Patronite, New York Magazine |
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Bangkok Center Grocery (104 Mosco St., near Mulberry St.; 212-732-8916) |
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THE VIBE: A clean, well-lighted repository of Thai foodstuffs and a gathering place for Thai food fanatics, like one fellow who was buying rarities for his friends Thai restaurant in Israel. |
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WHAT YOULL FIND: Fresh kaffir limes and lime leaves, sweet basil, galangal, lemongrass, and refrigerated curry pastes that have reportedly made their way into Chef Daniel Bouluds kitchen. |
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CUSTOMER-SERVICE DEPARTMENT: The owner, Nong Premjit, is a one-woman ambassador for her native cuisine. If it were up to her, everyone would cook Thai food at homepreferably with one of her sticky-rice steamers and imported mortar and pestles. |
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CELEBRITY CHEF SIGHTINGS: Kuma Inns King Phojanakong is such a regular, Premjit posted this magazines review of his restaurant on the wall. I pick up birds-eye chiles there and Thai apple eggplant, he says. They have the real Thai Red Bull, tooit comes in a smoky bottle. | |
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