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Downtown Brooklyn: Fried meats and seafood served out fast-food buckets? Sign us up. Baby's Buns & Buckets, a Thai American restaurant that sells sandwiches and rice bowls, is the newest arrival at the underground Dekalb Market Hall. Run by siblings Sage and Senna Lau, whose parents operate a handful of Thai restaurants across the city, including one in the food court, the stall specializes in Thai meats and seafoods like honey pork, fried basa, and fried chicken. Order them stacked, and possibly overflowing, from a small brioche bun ($7), or atop rice, herbs, and onions in an oversized bucket ($16). "We wanted to play on peoples' memories of fast-food," Sage Lau says, nodding to the fried chicken buckets at KFC and other chains. The menu runs under 10 items for now, but buckets of fried chicken and fish, sans rice, and french fries are eventually in the cards. 445 Albee Square West, in the Dekalb Market Hall

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