Top Chef Dale Talde's restaurant

There is an Asian spice party all up in Park Slope, Brooklyn.  Chef Dale Talde, formerly of Top Chef Season 4 and formerly sous chef at perhaps the most fun restaurant to pronounce, Buddakhan, offers diners a trip-around-Asia experience.  Some dishes like the pork and chive dumpling are familiar to dim sum palates.  But other dishes like the pork with spun fried chow fun noodle in gravy and pickled bok choy are are entirely new to a hip gwai lo.  Everything was savory and the variety of different Asian flavors made every dish singularly unique.  Goes to show you that Top Chef can actually launch some primo talent.

Pork and chive fried dumplings with hella hot spicy mustard

Vietnamese crepe stuffed with pork and shrimp and nuoc mam sauce

Calamari and papaya salad with grapefruit

Pulled pork chow mein with spun fried chow fun and picked bok choy

Sticky rice in banana leaf with chinese bacon and scallions

Who puts lobster in Tom Kha?  Smart people do.