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Food in Mouth

The Island of Taiwan Restaurant Review: Island of Taiwan restaurant

Sometimes the dissonance between my blogging self and my real life self reverberates and echoes so loudly and far, that I feel very much like a poser. It's difficult to really express about food in real life the way one could if one has pictures and time to put thoughts together. I suppose that's the genius of someone like Anthony Bourdain, who can do it on TV, and consistently deliver week after week. Most of the time, the enjoyment occurs silently and the message conveyed to others is muted. Even though the world we occupy is more about the gradients than the black-n-whites, it's easier for me to divide the world in one big stroke for the sake of this blog. I think the world is divided into three camps of eaters. One is the Giadas. This is named after Giada from the food network....

Otafuku Review: Otafuku

Do you ever eat something and then realize it is pretty good, but wish you would like it more? That is kind of how I felt with the food from Otafuku. It was like, this tasted pretty good, but it did not blow my mind...

Time loop and dynasties and repeat winners

Last year, Jeremy started watching Lost even though he had never seen it before. He did it because his coworkers would all talk about it and he wouldn't be in the conversation. Then he got me started on watching Lost and I have no idea what's going on this season except there's some freaky time traveling thing going on in the first few episodes. There's a lot of time shift going on and people are traveling back in time and then moving in time and it's all sorts of crazy stuff. Pretty soon, I guess they'll time travel to the future. And then back to the past, unless they get all those people back on the island. A huge time travel loop I guess. You see loops in the sports world too, albeit different kinds of loops. You have organizations and coaches and players that...

Co Review: Co is open for lunch

It's not often that a restaurant matches the food to its hype. I saw Jim Lahey at the NYCE last September, and it was clear that the guy's a bread genius. He's passionate about bread the way I'm not about blogging. His much anticipated pizzaria, Co or Company, has opened to much praise. Serious Eats is a big fan, and so are many others. I went this past weekend because apparently they are not open for lunch. The waitor informed me that they had been doing lunch service for about a week now. I strolled into Co around 12:40 on a Saturday. That's the only day they're open on the weekends according to their website as of today. I was maybe the eighth person in the dining room that day. In other words, if you're sick and tired of the crazy wait and the rumors of...