One of my Google alerts turned up a blog entry titled "New York Chicken in Latino Sauce." My mind started racing. Had Prospect Park's feral chickens become a delicacy? And what, exactly, is "Latino sauce"? A sour orange-garlic mojo? Chimichurri? Salsa verde? Ground-up Latinos?
The intriguing title belonged to a post by one Valerie Tan. She's cute, and I'm guessing by her tag, 22 years old, loves "Christmas" and "Fuzzy Things," but I could not for the life of me figure out where she's based. The only hint is the reference to Kallang Stadium, which appears to be in Singapore.
I'm going to skip the obligatory those-wacky-Asians-and-their-malaprop-English jokes, and assume she's talking about an actual dish, either from a restaurant or a menu selection called "New York New York." Valerie reports that
The portion is just right for me, and the thick sauce is splendid.
What is this mystery chicken???
[Photo of New York Nugget by The Eggplant via Flickr]
As a lover of Singaporean (and Latino) culture, I also find this mystery chicken dish fascinating so I looked into it a bit. This blog
http://craziefoodie.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html
(scroll a bit) includes a photo and a humorous description, "Tender Cuban chicken thigh with superb gravy! Another Latino contribution to New York." New York New York is a mall restaurant that serves dubious “American” food and their menu is made to look like the New York Post (with a bizarre font). From my dining experiences in Singapore, I don’t suspect that the food is terribly authentic because there just aren’t any Latinos in S.E. Asia. The few Mexican restaurants they have are a strange fusion of Tex-Mex and BBQ. Though strangely, just yesterday I read about a supposedly accurate Mexican restaurant in Singapore so who knows? http://chubbyhubby.net/blog/real-mexican/
Posted by: Krista | July 07, 2007 at 04:43 PM
Krista, thanks so much for the enlightenment. I suspected as much on the "authenticity" front, and yet the name was so alluring, I just couldn't resist.
Posted by: caro | July 08, 2007 at 12:30 PM