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Momofuku Fried Chicken Dinner
Posted: 10:58 pm, September 26th, 2009 in Midtown Connections
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$100 for 2 fried chickens, plus a few veggies and sauces? To split among 6-8 people? Will I get a whole wing out of this? Let me think... no.
You do realize you're on Midtown Lunch, right? Even splitting that 8 ways makes it over $10/pp, "not including drinks/tax/tip." I'm not going to pay out the nose for a morsel of chicken, just to say I've done the "momofuku thing."
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16 pieces of chicken for $100? lmao.
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I don't know... looks pretty freakin' amazing to me
http://newyork.seriouseats.com/2009/08/momofuku-fried-chicken-dinner.html
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i'll bite. moo shu is a weakness of mine.
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stevenp - imagine the cost if we went there. Our indian pizza outing bill was 50% food 50% booze (and some people didn't drink!)
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adam--yup, and I bet the drinks are 2-3x the price. Part of the momofuku scam: build hype with the hipster crowd, and charge way too much and compel reservations for a generally interesting but not insanely-great menu. Let the cachet of the hype keep business up, for all those lemmings willing to pay for the name-dropping privilege. I challenge you to find a single person who ate at any momofuku and *didn't* tell their friends all about it, even if they weren't crazy about the food. Which is why I refer to them as the "Emperor's New Restaurants."
We need another outing soon, and a happy hour. (I vote Rudy's of course! Or 1849, for those brave enough to head tothe village.)
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Judging things on price alone without trying it is kind of lame. Lots of irationally expensive things are awesome.
People laughed walking by me waiting in line for $16 soup at that little place just off Ninth ave a few years back. Remember that place? I'd pay $20 for that chicken chili soup if I could get one today. Seeing as that's about 5 times as much as a normal soup, the ratio holds up on the Momofuko chicken.
Just sounds like "poor guy sour grapes" to me.
Truth is, for some people, no soup is worth 16 bucks. For others, it's so good they think about it four years later and would pay even more for some. I'd wager the same is true here. But until I try it I really don't know WTF I'm talking about, do I?
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I think the Momofuku's are worth the hype - the food is consistently good and innovative. Ko was one of the better tasting menu's i've had in New York (better than dare I say, Le Berndardin's) and i've heard nothing but high praise for the Bo Ssam and Chicken dinners, both of which I hope to try.
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Yup Mike, thats exactly the point. You're free to spend $20 on awesome soup. Different people have different tastes.
( it's just that, we're free to ridicule you for it )
:)
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Poor guy sour grapes would only apply to those of us who couldn't afford it. I didn't want to chime in on David Chang and his MomoFuk-U empire, but I can't help it now. I had the bo ssam (the whole pork butt dinner) and really, I can tell you now, it wasn't that amazing. Some of the pork was fatty and delicious and succulent. Some of it was dried out and hard to chew/eat. All of it was mildly flavored (I have the same issue when I make pulled pork, but I've only done it 2-3x in a slow cooker, I'm not sure what his excuse is) and not very interesting. What WAS interesting was the stuff he chose to pair it with - not the lettuce, not even the spicy red sauce (was it gochujang?) or scallion oil which was quite yummy and added a ton of flavor to the otherwise blah pork... it was the oysters.
HOWEVER, having said that, even so... I don't think it was worth the price paid, nor do I think it was even amazing food. So he said "put some oyster in your lettuce with pulled pork" and yeah, that was really interesting, but beyond that, so what?
If I'd eaten at any Chang place and enjoyed it more, I would probably be really into him as well. I have yet to actually really like any of his offerings except the compost cookie at Milk Bar which was DELICIOUS but he didn't even make that himself, so props don't even go to him!
I am a little sick and tired of everyone who's drinking the Kool-Aid and talking about him as though he were God, or as stevenp says, the Emperor's new clothes, but for the most part, I keep my mouth shut and let it roll off my back because honestly, it doesn't matter. Chang fans/lovers will keep going to his restaurants, while I will occasionally try something (and I will be honest when I finally find something I like! I can't wait!), but for the most part decline invitations. Politely. Let it be.
Having said alllllll of that, the point of this post was to find people to dine with the OP. So let's stop shitting on the guy and let him find some eating buddies. Good for him for using the forums, let's stop being trolls (I think that's the proper term).
Hope you find some dining buddies.
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Yeah, stop shitting on the guy. Let him enjoy his "8 people, 2 chickens" experience.
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you know what jtothexo... you get the reservation and my wife and I are in! I actually loved the bo ssam when I had it, and have been wanting to try the fried chicken (despite the high price.) Coincidentally enough, I also like kool aid.
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I suspect he'll get the rest of his people very easily now.
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My friend and I want to eat the fried chicken dinner at Momofuku Noodle Bar. It includes two whole fried chickens, one southern style and one korean style. The dinner comes with mu shu pancakes, long spicy peppers, baby carrots, red ball radishes, shiso leaves, bibb lettuce, four sauces, and an herb basket for $100 (not including drinks/tax/tip). We need four to six more people. We'll probably do Fri or Sat night at 6 or 8. Anyone wants to join us?