Chinatown posts on Food in Mouth
A quick detour from the vacation posts. To give you an idea just how damn slow I am, those vacation posts are nearly seven months old. At the current rate, I won’t finish til it’s been a full year since the vacation. But a break is necessary sometimes. Every year around the first few months of the year, I beseech for my market value on the job market. Just like the last few years, it has been a sobering and humbling experience to realize just how dire I might feel if layoffs ever come. Apparently I’m not very employable, but at least I have a job now, right? Excuse me while I look for some wood… As I was saying though, we all need a break. If you take one in Chinatown, you can confidently try the Portuguese egg tart at Simply Bakery. They make both kinds of egg tarts but really, the ones emblazoned with burn marks are the ones you want anyway…. [Continue reading]
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February 6, 2014 at 1:54 pm
When Steph and I were in Taipei, we had bubble tea from this place called Chatime. There are all sorts of different chains and I thought that Cha Time was just a random chain, but apparently I’ve been living underneath a rock because Cha Time is not only in New York City, they even have more than one location. DOH! So basically when I tweeted about Chatime, I was just a complete loser. There’s a freaking Cha Time on Canal Street… right next to the subway station… How dumbass can I get?… [Continue reading]
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November 27, 2013 at 11:22 pm
When you don’t eat out that much and you try to run a food blog on a non-regular basis, it’s hard to eat at your favorite places over and over again. Not everyone can eat out nightly like Charlie Rose. For normal folks, it’s nice to eat at a place you like but don’t go to very often. The other day I had the beef noodle soup at Excellent Pork Chop House. Even though I still love their pork chops, sometimes switching it up to the beef noodle soup is nice. I remember trying to find this dish when I used to life in the Lafayette dorms in Chinatown when I was in college…. [Continue reading]
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April 4, 2013 at 6:39 pm
With a new year comes new possibilities. There’s a new Olympics this year, a new presidential election, and in the restaurant world, probably countless new openings and closings. As 2011 drew to a close we all parted ways with the outgoing New York Times restaurant critic and in 2012 we’re all going to get used to reading what Pete Wells has to say. This is exciting, right? Sam Sifton gave ethnic food a good spin, and I hope Pete Wells does the same. It was cool when Sifton reviewed 456 Shanghai Cuisine because Manhattan’s Chinatown doesn’t get enough recognition…. [Continue reading]
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January 4, 2012 at 9:16 pm
Excellent Pork Chop House has fallen on many lists of best places to get pork chop over rice in New York. The NKOTB is Hua Ji, which I respect and enjoy. They’re not as centrally located in Chinatown as the EPCH. Even in the face of new competition, Excellent Pork Chop House is still really awesome. They’re still got one of the best bowls going on because the proportion of pork chop to meat sauce to pickled mustard greens is still pretty wicked…. [Continue reading]
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November 17, 2011 at 5:00 pm
One of the things that is really new about being a parent is the little things that make you geek out and have a positive reaction. I can imagine this… [more]
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April 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn’t get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it’s nice to take… [more]
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March 30, 2016 at 11:30 am 
I am a dad now! It’s only been about a month, and it’s as surreal to write that now was it was when my son first came into the world. Being… [more]
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February 29, 2016 at 2:27 am 
For the food loving couple that’s hobbled by the exclamation of, “I’m getting too old for this,” there’s some usefulness in food courts…. [more]
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January 10, 2016 at 1:12 am 
When the semester cycles to an end, my brain basically cannot fit everything all in, and that’s why the blog has really suffered. My plan for the… [more]
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December 31, 2015 at 8:39 pm