Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats in New York City [Paperback]

Robert Sietsema (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 294 pages
• Publisher: City & Co; Revised edition (May 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885492294
• ISBN-13: 978-1885492296
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,893,296 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic and essential guide to dining in NYC, February 10, 1999

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Ethan Zuckerman (Williamstown, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats in New York City (Paperback)

Sietsema has a rule for eating out in New York: he looks for the strangest restaurants he can find, orders the oddest thing on the menu and tells you all about it in enthusiastic and clear prose. This wonderful guide will tell you where to find jerk chicken in the Bronx, Tibetan yak butter tea on the Upper West Side and explain why you HAVE to go to Jersey City for the best Pakistani food. I don't travel to New York without this book and neither should you.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars don't try the japanese restaurants in this book, May 30, 2000

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This review is from: Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats in New York City (Paperback)

well, I bought this book mainly becuase of the attactive title. I took a look at the recommended list of chinese restautants, there is joe's Shanghai restaurant which I think it is good as well. So I think it should be a reliable guide. It seems to me that I should have a close taste as the author does. However, I am so disapointed about the japanese restautants the author recommends in the book. Especially "the taste of tokyo" which is the most terrible american japanese restautant I have been to. They have dirty sashimi which made me run to the lady's room a few times after having dinner there. Can you trust the spanish chef can make authentic japanese food? I don't for sure. the food there is not cheap either. I have been trying more than 50 japanese restuarants in Manhattan, a lot of them in San Marcs are good. I don't know why Robert names this one. Is it just becuase it is so easy to get lost on the way to the lady's room? I love japanese food and I sincerely suggest the author should review his list.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good & Cheap Ethnic Eats in New York City, December 20, 2000

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Jessica (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews

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This is a great book. It covers many resturants in the area. It provides good, accurate & quality information on these places. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone who is a new New Yorker or long-lived resident.