Must Eats
Last Saturday - my NYC food gorging celebration - we ate the best dish we'd had in a long time! Not surprisingly, it was at my beloved Vegetarian Dim Sum House. We had just placed our orders for the usual suspects (pan fried noodles with mushrooms, ham and baby bok choy; mashed taro treasure boxes; rice flour rolls with cilantro and ham; corn jook; and monk dumplings) when they dumped a GIANT box of fresh snow pea shoots out onto the table across from us to pick through in time for the dinner rush! be and i were staring at the wonderful pile of beautiful greens, practically drooling and completely mesmerized. Then with a sudden urgent tone - like we had only 2 seconds left to do so, he added a plate of sauteed snow pea shoots to our order. The main waitress was slightly amused by our emergency addition but i think she totally understood; they were some damn good snow pea shoots.The dish was sauteed in a very light broth. The greens were perfectly cooked, crisp and tender. A generous sized plate was enough for 5 of us, although secretly i could've eaten half of it by myself! Be sure to eat them now - it's season! I love you, snow pea shoots!
Here's my old post and picture from 2005 in case you don't know what they look like.
posted by beXn @ 12:44 AM
2 Comments:
The snow pea shoots do sound tasty. It's been a while since I've had the pleasure of eating them.
It's easy to make them yourself, too. The hard part is finding a vendor that sells a good batch!
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