The Year of the Sheep is in full swing and with it comes the annual Lucky Rice Grand Feast, a large, walk around tasting event featuring "the best in Asian cuisine from Hong Kong to Hanoi." Doing the cooking, nearly two dozen NYC culinary luminaries like the teams from The Black Ant, RedFarm, Tuome and Mokbar.
The Feast aims to showcase Asian foods from fine dining to casual street eats, with plenty of hooch, beer and sake to aid in consumption. Morimoto will be doing Spicy Cold Noodles with pork belly; Tuome is offering Crispy Deviled Egg with chili; and newcomer Bricolate will be slicing up a Vietnamese Beef Carpaccio on a chip made from beef tendon. Cocktails include a Sesame Colada with Bombay Sapphire EAST, white sesame paste, caramelized pineapple and other flavorful additions from Lumos and the Odd Job, made with Bacardi 8, Lemongrass Blanc Vermouth, curacao and "Far East Spices."
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The Mandarin Oriental in Columbus Circle hosts the fete this year, which takes place on Friday, March 20th. Tickets include a $250 VIP option, which gains you early entry, or $150 GA, which still gets you a full two hours of munching and sipping. As with all of these types of foodiot events, if you can't spring for VIP, be sure to get there early for first crack at all the dishes before they're swamped.
