When I was in Bangkok for a week, there was a little noodle stand at the corner from our hostel. They had 2-3 options, but the owner of the hostel recommended the chicken stir fry noodle, and instructed us on how to order it.

I have never tasted anything in the same class as this. We seriously ate there maybe like 10 times in 6 days and when we left I kept thinking about it for months. I’m vegan now and the thought of eating meat repulses me, plus it’s been almost ten years, but I still think of this place regularly. I want to find the family that runs/ran it and pay them a bunch of money to make me tofu stir fry noodles.

Pizza Napolitana

Chef in a small town in a small town in Montana made ham hocks as a special. IIRC, he said that shit was slow cooked overnight for like 14 hours. I’ve never had pork that good since.

I followed Binging With Babish’s recipe for Cubanos (from the Jon Favreau movie “Chef”) to the T and it came out like the BEST sandwich you could ever imagine.

I tried it first with french bread and was sorely disappointed. I found a local baker who made pan cubano sandwich rolls to order. 100000000/10 would go to a stupid amount of effort to make one sandwich again.

Fried rice at a greasy spoon diner chain restaurant in the Osaka area.

Probably the equivalent of someone saying the best food they’ve ever had was a Moons Over My Hammy, but it is what it is 🤷

I’m gonna narrow this down to two categories because many foods could land on this list

Pizza: either Chicken Bacon Ranch or parmesan sauce pizza (also called Asiago). Recently discovered the latter and I honestly can’t go back to red sauce

Chinese Food: Crispy Honey Chicken from my local Golden Rice restaurant. They’re wildly old-school, drive thru with paper menus, a menu taped on the window and no modern drive thru. They used to be a dine-in location but last I knew they closed that part of the restaurant. They own my soul with their Crab Rangoons and once I tried the CHC, i never looked back

Lots of food, to be honest. The one that comes to mind right at the moment is the Teriyaki Glazed Hen of the Woods Mushrooms with Tomato Polenta, Sweet Red Peppers, Roasted Rapini at Equinox in DC - it was really good!

Oh! and the vegetarian b’stella at the old Marrakesh restaurant, also in DC.

The chocolate suicide cake and the beer-cheese soup at the 93rd Aero Squadron in Philly.

The pretzel shortbreads at Lost Bread, also in Philly.

At a local Italian place called Ozzie’s, they used to have a crab pasta that is easily my favorite dish from any restaurant I’ve ever been to (like lick the plate good). They took it off the menu about 15 years ago, and I was so devastated that I think I actually felt my soul leave my body when the waiter told me. He had to give me a few minutes to mourn, and to this day I still feel sad/hopeful when I go back in and look at the menu. Fuck. Now I’m sad again.

Tiramisou

Indian anything

“Arabisches Reiterfleisch” after a long day out in the woods when I was at the “Pfadfinder” like scouts. Its a mix of bolognaise (vegan today), apples, pickle, potatos and more.

It’s always changing, can’t choose from the plethora of tasty yummieeeeeeees. :3

That one homemade pizza I made once.

Like I don’t even think I proofed the boules, but it was like chewy and crispy, with the perfect black peaks coming out of the oven.

It’s heavily hyped, but authentic A5 Wagyu. It’s so rich you can really only enjoy a tasting portion, a few ounces at most (which for the price is all you should get anyway). It practically dissolves in your mouth.

kashkeh bademjan

I had a really good meatball sub when I was like 10 and I still think about it on occasion

Watermelon Sugar