Chinatown posts on Food in Mouth
The other day wifey and I woke up at 3 am and took the train into the city. Weather had not yet turned cold. It wasn’t the kind of wind that would dry out your skin. But waiting for a train at that time of the night, and then walking on the sidewalks of New York made me feel like a tourist, like some outsider. People walked around, ready to end their night at 4 am, not knowing where they had parked their cars. Maybe I’m the one who overstayed the welcome in New York. But one thing that always makes me feel right at home is some dim sum. It had been a long time since we had gone to Nom Wah Tea Parlor, and it seemed like a great time to go back…. [Continue reading]
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November 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm
About a week after returning from France, I was eager to try the newest ice cream fad in New York – 10 Below Ice Cream. We walked by but the line was out of the door and I just gave up on that. But my ice cream loving belly was not to be deterred and we went back a week later, and I guess the trick was that we arrived before noon. If you haven’t heard of 10 Below before, basically the ice cream is made in front of you. That sounds kind of crazy but they seem to have these anti-griddles that freeze liquids really fast and they do that a la minute. The lines out the door? It’s because it takes time to make each order…. [Continue reading]
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September 27, 2015 at 11:24 pm
At some point in my tenure in New York, I had a college degree, and voluntarily quit a full-time job from a company that was two acquisitions away from being bought by Google. I had two roommates in a railroad apartment, and my room had no windows. I remember it was around summer time, and I went to the July 4th hot dog eating contest on Coney Island for the first time ever. It was balls hot that year, maybe above 90. After that, I went home and sat alone in this living room and wondered when I had to move out of the city. My idea was to buy a one way ticket to Portland and then rent some small room, buy a scooter, and then… figure it out. What I would have missed out on would have been epic, but in a smaller sense, I would have missed out on things like getting Chicken and Waffle with Ming on a Sunday…. [Continue reading]
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July 15, 2015 at 12:56 am
There are dim sum places in New York like Red Egg where you don’t get the push cart experience. The quality of the food is on par with what you’d get at a Jing Fong and some would say it’s even slightly better. Crazy as that might sound, there’s a reason that some folks held out with a Blackberry phone because feeling those keys was just nice. Seeing what you can eat just two minutes prior to eating it is kinda fun. People do seem to wait a crazy amount of time on Sundays to get into a large dim sum place, while places like Red Egg aren’t nearly as packed…. [Continue reading]
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March 13, 2014 at 3:24 pm
Since we’re continuing on with the month of no public haterade (plenty of in-person haterade still, just ask wifey and friends), I’m going to talk about one of the good things about getting older. Normally I’d just complain about lower back pain and my achey knees. So the number one thing about getting older is that you run out of time. There’s a reason people have mid-life crisis and shit like that. The flip side of that is it’s really nice to just realize it’s cool to spend time with wifey or friends/family. Nice things you can do? Relax and eat dessert at Asian dessert spots in Chinatown. InDessert is a nice spot for that. It’s not going to blow your socks off, but it’s like a good role player on a basketball team…. [Continue reading]
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March 5, 2014 at 7:51 pm
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 
The other day wifey and I woke up at 3 am and took the train into the city. Weather had not yet turned cold. It wasn’t the kind of wind that would… [more]
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November 30, 2015 at 9:54 pm 
Sometimes wifey and I have serious adult conversations, such as when she told me a child at school had lice and we might have to comb each other’s… [more]
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October 29, 2015 at 8:53 pm