"It’s common to find curry puffs on Thai menus around town as an appetizer — little, deeply browned empanadas with a braided spine and curried potato filling. This Singaporean restaurant in the Flatiron District offers a gussied-up version of the dish, which may have evolved from a fritter brought to Southeast Asia centuries earlier by Dutch colonialists. Its rendition features a pastry rolled into a spiral before being folded into a turnover, and the potato filling is sharper tasting than usual." - Robert Sietsema