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Thursday, April 17th, 2008Like most love stories, this one begins when I was least looking for love.
I was at the Columbia Greenmarket last Sunday. I didn’t really need anything; it was just a nice spring day and I wanted to get out of the house. I picked up some apples and a butternut squash, probably the last […]
Oh, Chinatown.
Monday, March 31st, 2008Just when I thought you had shown me everything — from the most delightful dumplings ever to old men horking up unnameable globs onto the sidewalks — I though I had become inured to your myriad charms.
And then, I found something and fell in love all over again.
Thai Pocky.
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It must be spring.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Because we just ate our first coco helados of 2008:
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FINALLY!
Friday, January 11th, 2008City Council Passes Bill for Recycling of Plastic Bags
Do you know many NYC stores currently offer plastic bag recycling?
ONE: Whole Foods. And some D’Agostino’s (but not all) — not that there are any in my neighborhood. Not even the Greenmarket currently offers bag recycling (but they will soon, according to an email I just […]
Taste of Chinatown tomorrow!
Friday, April 20th, 2007The tasting map is up! [PDF] It looks like there are slightly less places participating this time around — 48 this time, and I think last time it was 55.
If you want to meet up with the Gezellig-Gang, we’ll be at the information kiosk (the i in the top left corner of the tasting […]
Taste of Chinatown 2.0!
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007It’s back!
I don’t care if it is overrated/overcrowded/brings out the tourists in swarms — I freakin’ love Taste of Chinatown.
Here’s a series of posts about last fall’s Taste of Chinatown:
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Who’s coming with me this year? I’m gonna have a stack of singles on me like an ugly bridesmaid at a […]
Wait… what?
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007This just landed in my inbox: FreshDirect is offering a premade Passover seder plate and $20 gets you a platter, prefilled with all the necessary items.
To wit:
Why schlep all over town? Our seder package includes an attractively blue-scripted white platter full of all the essentials: a cooked lamb shank, a hard-boiled egg, parsley, romaine hearts, […]
Why I Moved To NYC: Reason #437.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
One word: jerky.
My friend Eun-Duk and I were aimlessly wandering the streets of Chinatown, after seeing Raise The Red Lantern at Film Forum. When we passed by, we could see them grilling the jerky in the window facing the street, at which point, it was all over for us.
The one on the right is sliced […]
Thanks Lucy, whoever you are.
Saturday, February 10th, 2007As part of my Resolutions: 2007 campaign, I resolved to go to the Union Square Greenmarket once a week — every week. The thing is, in the dead of winter, the Greenmarket’s somewhat of a crap shoot; you never really know what’s going to be there or if it’s even going to be worth the […]
An Open Letter
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007Dear Korean Food,
I still remember the day we met; I bought some mysterious pickled cabbagey thing I’d never heard of from the local Wild Oats. I brought it home, popped it open, and as soon as that fermented smell hit me, I knew we were gonna be friends. Remember that? I was living alone and […]
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