Spaghetti with salmon roe, seaweed and scallops at Jonathan's, a Japanese chain with cheap toys for sale near the cash register, booths, muzak and an evocation of a much gentler and cheesier USA. My Tokyo friends are quite amused at my fascination with Jonathan's, but I've returned there a bunch of time, and tonight, I had a doria, the Japanese gratin, topped with four Hiroshima oysters.
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Last week I revisited a Cantonese street food cheapie in Manhattan Chinatown 'XO' on Hester - across from the $1.25 noodle cart - where I get unlimited free tea on cold mornings, and they have lots of photographed dishes like doria where large portions of cheese are melted over everything. I get my new cholesterol reading on Monday but I stay off that stuff. I might have told you about this Nepalese guy I knew who tried to start a place in South Jersey that served Chinese food as it was made in old Calcutta - didn't make it tho it was good, moved to a restaurant somewhere in Queens. I guess Japanese/ Chinese versions of American in the US get changed into upscale Japanese, + places like XO which cater to Chinese people.
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