Anthony Bourdain to open NYC food market - hawker style

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Anthony Bourdain — the sharp-tongued chef, gastronomic explorer, author and CNN personality — is getting back into the restaurant business.

He has signed a deal to open his first large-scale food market in Manhattan, which will reflect his passion for international street food, Page Six can exclusively reveal.
Article: http://pagesix.com/2014/01/09/anthony-b ... od-market/

I'd certainly be excited to try this but the feeling of arriving into Singapore around midnight with the sudden explosion of humidity and green exiting the airport, then catching a cab to some hawker stalls for cold Tiger beer & awesome food, will be a very tough act to follow.

Evidently, this is still going to happen. It was recently announced that Bourdain & partners have signed a lease for a large part of Pier 57. It's slated to have butchers, bakers, fishmongers, produce vendors and, most exciting to me, a Singapore style Hawker Market.

The New York Times wrote:But “the beating heart and soul” of the project, Mr. Bourdain said, will be a Singapore-style hawker market, with communal eating spaces surrounded by small stands selling street foods from around the world — many of them mom-and-pop operations that Mr. Bourdain and his team plan to bring here.

If his vision pans out, visitors will be able to savor Geylang Claypot Rice simmered with meats over a fire, as dished up in Singapore, or tostadas slathered with uni by Sabina Bandera, whose cart, La Guerrerense, in Ensenada, Mexico, Mr. Bourdain contends is “the best in the world.” He has struck deals with both vendors.

Tony Bordain wrote:“The way people eat has changed,” he said. “They want to be at counters and communal tables. They want heat and funk and chicken wings that set their hair on fire. They’re as quick to brag about the greatest $3 bowl of laksa as a dinner at Ducasse. That’s what I want to create for New York, some place where I would want to eat. Right now, there is nothing like that.”

Read more about it here http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/dinin ... .html?_r=0

The first hawker zoo? Or is this what EPCOT basically is?

JeffB wrote:The first hawker zoo? Or is this what EPCOT basically is?

I'm hoping for the best. If they realize their goal, it will be quite a destination for shopping and feasting, albeit probably at ridiculous NYC prices.

Tony Bordain wrote:“The way people eat has changed,” he said. “They want to be at counters and communal tables. They want heat and funk and chicken wings that set their hair on fire. They’re as quick to brag about the greatest $3 bowl of laksa as a dinner at Ducasse. That’s what I want to create for New York, some place where I would want to eat. Right now, there is nothing like that.”

I was thinking this had to be a parody the first time I read it, and then I noticed the obvious giveaway of attributing it to "Tony Bordain".

Not bad though, a pretty accurate skewering of the Hippest Guy In The Room bestowing his hipness upon us writing that marks so much food/lifestyle journalism these days.