Pok Pok

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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Endorsements

Andy Ricker’s Pok Pok Drinking Vinegars Can Now Be Bought With Your Hard-Earned Tokens Of Economic Exchange

by Tina Nguyen 3:38 pm, January 8th

What if everything you ever wanted, in dreams and reality, came in the form of bottled acid? No, silly, not that kind of acid! (You’re so silly.)
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Restaurant Openings

Andy Ricker Adds Whiskey Soda Lounge To Growing NYC Empire

by Mariella Mosthof 5:06 pm, December 26th

Andy Ricker, who managed to successfully transplant his Portland restaurant Pok Pok to Brooklyn (with a smaller outpost called Phat Thai in Manhattan), is laying the groundwork for a third New York joint.
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Holidays

David Chang, Danny Bowien, Paul Qui, & Andy Ricker’s Picks For Christmas Chinese Takeout

by Mariella Mosthof 11:21 am, December 25th

Not celebrating Christmas today and wondering what to do about that rumbly in your tumbly before running out to get a good seat for either Les Mis, Django Unchained, or a sneaky double-feature of both? Most excellent news! Food and Wine Magazine rounded up some of our favorite chefs and quizzed them on the best places across the country to snag Chinese food on Christmas Day.
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Lists

Who Made Adam Platt’s List Of Best New Chefs And Restaurants Of 2012?

by Mariella Mosthof 12:24 pm, December 24th

In advance of any outrage, please note that New York Magazine’s food critic Adam Platt acknowledged that Andy Ricker is not technically a new chef.
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Travel

Andy Ricker Says Don’t Blame Street Food For Your Food Poisoning

by Mariella Mosthof 9:43 am, October 22nd

…You snobby pricks. Just kidding!
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Last Call: You Won’t Like Michael Ruhlman When He’s Angry

by Tina Nguyen 5:13 pm, September 18th

Plus: Andy Ricker talks with a Thai-language newspaper about his obsession with the TV series “Golden Girls.” We think. We can’t speak Thai.
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Smackdowns

Why Pok Pok’s Andy Ricker Refuses To Accept American Express

by Tina Nguyen 3:04 pm, June 21st

In his review of Pok Pok, eagle-eyed Bloomberg restaurant critic Ryan Sutton noticed that, “somewhat appropriately, in a credit card-style fine-print font at the bottom of the menu,” owner Andy Ricker states that he will not accept American Express credit cards at his restaurant.
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