Gothamist has dined in all kinds of joints in Flushing’s Chinatown – killer Cantonese, top-flight dim sum and lamb-laden Northern Chinese. The area we haven’t explored much is the food courts, mazes of stalls so diverse that Tony Bourdain could easily cull material for an episode or two. It’s not that we are squeamish, it’s just that the signs are all in Chinese and many of the proprietors speak little English. A non-Chinese speaker......

What’s worth watching on food-related TV this week? ">Martha Stewart has all new episodes this week (10am Monday-Friday, NBC). Monday her guests are Mario Batali, Michael Schulson and Scott Conant; on Wednesday it’s Rick Bayless, Sue Torres and Tom Douglas. Fox has Episode 7 of Hell's Kitchen on Monday at 9pm. Melissa’s gone, and six contestants remain. Read the latest episode roundup in the LA Times here. Gordon Ramsay has also adapted his BBC show......

Hate airport food? Well, if you're flying out of JFK, they've just opened a Balducci's in Terminal 2. We're also partial to the Cibo Express in Terminal 6, pictured at right. [New Yorkology] What happens when you mix chefs, booze, fire, and egos? A mess, some broken glass, and an accidental stabbing. Seems that Marco Pierre White was demonstrating a flaming Sambuca trick to Mario Batali, Tony Bourdain and others at the Spotted Pig when......

- LX.TV profiles Hurapan Kitchen, some food blogger gives commentary. - Restaurant Girl visits The House, gives the ambience an 8 and the food, a fairly dismal 4. - Augieland stops by Dieci, awards it "640 decimalillian stars," and finds that, although it is improperly categorized as Italian, it's "a good little place for a bite." - Tony Bourdain set to become a proud papa. - Gridskipper leads us to some of the city's......

-- Time Out says the nicest block in New York City is South Portland Avenue between Dekalb and Lafayette in Fort Greene. No, seriously, they do. -- Tony Bourdain revises his famous eating rule: "Fish on Monday? I eat it all the time--but at sushi bars--where the quality is apparent and at Le Bernardin or at any restaurant where they specialize in and have made their reputation on seafood (like Esca) and at restaurants......

-- Nothing kicks off the weekend like a touch of the 'thrax! Luckily, it looks like the "beige" powder found at the Times today is harmless. -- New owner says it's "highly doubtful" he'll turn the Park Slope Pavilion movie theater into a residential building. Our bet: tenants move in by late August! -- Interesting spotlight piece on Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest rules: "a competitor will be disqualified if the effluvia hits the......