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Pok Pok Brings Cultishly Loved Chicken Wings To LES
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Jan 10, 2012
Modified Jan 10, 2012
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Published Jan 10, 2012
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Pok Pok, the Portland-based Thai restaurant with a fervent, bicoastal fan base, has officially opened a tiny wing-centric snack shop in the Lower East Side, just as we predicted. The small menu features chef Andy Ricker's cultishly loved fish sauce chicken wings ($12.50), papaya salad ($8.50), papaya salad with coconut rice and sweet shredded pork ($10.50), coffees and the restaurant's signature drinking vinegars (sorry, no booze for now).
With operating hours between 5 p.m. and midnight during the week and 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends, plus the near-deafening food-world buzz around Pok Pok, you can pretty much expect the place to be packed for the foreseeable future. Or you can just hold out for the impending Columbia Street Waterfront District expansion that's also headed our way.
Pok Pok Wing // 137 Rivington Street // 212-477-1299
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