I'M A LITTLE TEAPOT Congee Village is a well-known Chinese restaurant in NYC for congee, spacious rooms fit for giant dinner parties, and incongruous eye-raping decor. Okay, maybe...blinding is a better word. It's not really that bad. Just a little...
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congee - is chinese rice porridge. to me, it is the quintessential chinese comfort food. when i was a child, whenever i had a cold or an upset stomach, the cook would make congee and while the rest of the family would eat the regular meal of meats, fish and veggies, i or whoever was sick in the family would eat congee because it is highly digestible and therefore would not be taxing on one’s digestive system. if chicken matzoh ball soup is the jewish penicillin, then rice congee is the chinese tetracycline. of course, one does not have to have a cold to eat congee, it is also eaten for breakfast, lunch ,dinner as well as a snack at any time.
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I've heard that Congee Village is authentic, tasty - and the menu is intriguing. Among the offerings: sizzling eel, frog, and fish stomach casserole. The decor is somewhat cute too--replete with tons of theatrical bamboo. Admittedly, all that I've had here was a Lychee Martini - but it was a decent size, and very reasonably priced for a Manhattan drink. ($4.00). So - not bad for a start!
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Backtracking through Japanese, Chinese, and pastry foodstuffs
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When I’m craving congee, I usually run to Congee Village for their $3 hot bowls, either served with pork, chicken, duck, fish, hundred-year-old egg or a combination of all of them. Congee is a type of rice porridge cooked the Chinese way, slowly and with water until the rice has a thicker consistency. It’s comfort food and it reminds Filipinos of their own version, arroz caldo.
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So Congee Village opened up a new location on Bowery St among all of the industrial restaurant supply stores. There’s also a trendy restaurant a few doors called Blvd. and the venue Crash Mansion. Anyhow we went in to check out the new Congee Village restaurant location and personally I think it’s a little over the top : It’s got a large plasma screen and a round clear glass “manhole” that you can view the flowing water from the waterfall on the right wall. You can see the traditional white lucky Meneki neke cat, assorted lucky bamboo plants, etc. ha ha. We got one of the private booths that we ended up sharing the large table. The woodwork is nice on the interiors but overshadows the granite motifs on the wall and kind of gives the restaurant kind of a colder feeling. Going on to wards the food we ordered just 3 items : Thai Chicken Feet Dish, Chinese Broccoli, and a Steamed Bamboo plate of Chicken and Mushrooms. The Thai Chicken feet dish is just
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