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"44" Restaurant-Tel Aviv's Best Kept Secret

Wednesday 14 Nov 2012 | 3 Comments
Filed under: Entrees, Restaurant Reviews, Salads, Soups Tags: cilantro, Fish Sauce, Indonesia, peanuts, thai, Vietnamese

By: Danya Weiner Mine and Deanna’s birthdays are two weeks apart, and each year to celebrate, instead of buying gifts for one another, we go out to a nice restaurant. Come mid-October, just before our birthdays, we try to carefully decide which restaurant we want to treat ourselves to. We usually try to go with something culinary adventurous, that we can’t go to with our husbands, who are both culinarily challenged. This year we couldn’t decide where to go, and we almost decided to postpone the celebration due to the lack of plan. On the night we had planned to go out, I was strolling down the trendy “Nachalat Benyamin” street, when I recalled that I had done a photo shoot at a cool new restaurant called 44. I called to make the reservation and the hostess explained that they were having a special evening that night-a Vietnamese grill night-on the outside patio of the restaurant. Total karma. The night was amazing on all fronts. The food was divine, the music (live dj) was spot...
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Chicken Satay

Thursday 26 May 2011 | 1 Comment
Filed under: Entrees Tags: chicken, peanuts, thai

By: Deanna Linder It’s a pretty common occurrence to hear a song and have it remind you of something, somewhere or someone. For foodies like me, a certain food does the same. There are the obvious, like chicken soup reminding me of my mother, French toast reminding me of my childhood and oysters, oddly enough, bring me back to Las Vegas. Chicken satay will always make me think of my older brother. Two years older than me, half a world away and still my best friend, my brother is what I like to call a “raw foodie”. He’s not into the snobby part that comes along with the title, but really a lover of simple, authentic flavors and tastes. He knows all the best ethnic ‘hole-in-the walls’ from taco truck to Indian spot in Los Angeles. Chicken is so unpretentiously his favorite protein. Satay is marinated, skewered and grilled meats found all throughout South East Asia, especially in Indonesia and Thailand. They are generally served with a sauce, and every time I’ve eaten Thai...
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Som Tam- Green Papaya Salad

Friday 3 Sep 2010 | 3 Comments
Filed under: General, Salads Tags: cherry tomatoes, green papaya, peanuts

Once I finished photography school I travelled to the Far East for the first time. My first stop was Thailand. It's hard to even articulate my experiences in the culinary realm, but it was definitely a sense awakening experience, both positive and negative. In Thailand, street food is of abundance, and simply walking down the streets provides a sensory encounter filled with smells, some amazing, and others difficult for my Israeli nose to handle. My first visit to Thailand left me with mixed feelings and a mouth on fire (previously unexposed to spicy foods). On my second trip to Thailand I arrived from India with a passion for Thai food. The Thai kitchen has a way of creating dishes with loads of flavor on one hand, but which also give respect to the ingredients themselves. To make a long story short, Thai food is now by far my favorite cuisine. Sweet, sour, spicy and savory is my motto! Food stalls in the Neve Sha'anan market For insperation i decided to visit Neve Sha'anan...
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Vietnamese chicken and glass noodle salad

Thursday 14 Jan 2010 | 2 Comments
Filed under: Salads Tags: carrots, chicken, cilantro, lemons, mint, Noodles, peanuts

In the super trendy and popular Mitte district in Berlin there is a charming Vietnamese restaurant called "Monsieur Vuong". The menu is quite modest- with around six courses- but the small selection comes with compensation- each of the dishes on the menu are exceptionally tasty , the portions are generous, the service is exceedingly prompt and the prices are ridiculous (in a good way, especially for Berlin or Europe for that matter). My favorite dish of theirs is the glass noodle salad- a spicy dish with an abundance of flavors, textures and colors- that is also filling! The glass noodles and fish sauce can be found in Asian specialty markets, but may also be found in your regular supermarket in the Asian products section. Here is my version of this salad: Ingredients for 6-8 servings: For the salad: 1 bag (200 grams, 7 oz.) glass noodle, soaked in hot water for about 10 minutes. Use a very large bowl for this because the noodles come in a bunch and are nearly impossible to separate....
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