Word: pastrami
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...those people who eats meat at every lunch and dinner. In my opinion, and here I borrow a turn of phrase from University President Lawrence H. Summers, vegetarianism amounts to anti-Semitism in effect if not in intent, for as an ideology, it frowns upon those who love pastrami...
...bagels are fresh. The cream cheese is piled thick. The salami is kosher. The address is ... Hong Kong? Yes, welcome to the place that's fast become a veritable oasis for expats looking for comfort food that's more pastrami than pork bun-Archie...
...Enter Archie B's. Tucked in the city's trendy Soho district, the restaurant, tel: (852) 2522 1262, has become a one-stop shop for familiar comfort foods that used to only exist Stateside. Think pastrami sandwiches and chunky potato salads. Rice Krispie treats and black-and-white cookies (good luck finding those anywhere else in Hong Kong outside of Seinfeld reruns). There's cheesesteaks for transplanted Philadelphians, and subs stuffed with roast turkey and cranberry sauce. "People would like to assume Americans go into McDonald's and go, 'Ah, home!' But it's not like that," Levin says...
...expats know that when it comes to those desperately missed foods, there's no place like home. So, to win over the die-hard New Yorkers with his deli, Levin says he knew only the real stuff would do. "My suppliers tell me I can get cheap pastrami from Australia," he laughs. "Right." Instead, Levin goes straight to the source. His rye bread is par-baked in New York ovens (with New York water), then finished in Hong Kong. His salami comes from the famed Katz's delicatessen. And the bagels-which will fool even the most hardened Manhattan bagel...
...best fiction?from The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959) to Barney's Version (1997)?the work of contemporaries Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. The Scotch drinking, Schimmelpenninck cigar-smoking Mordecai was never a follower of stylish food fads. Dine with him in a deli and order a pastrami lean, and Mordecai would tell the waiter, "Bring me his fat." Our lives will all be a little leaner without...