Reset template and restored old html coding. Seems to be working fine….

March 10th, 2010 | Category: posts | Leave a comment

Hi Everyone, Apologies for my absence and for the template change.
My website was hacked last month and some douchebag infected my template, the one I built up with photos and customized icons and columns. Visitors wrote me saying they were routed to other sites and that their anti virus programs were freakin out.
I hastily changed [...]

March 9th, 2010 | Category: posts | Leave a comment

It started with chatter on Chinatown street corners, and soon, the conversations moved into neighborhood community centers.
Hold the terror trials here? In my neighborhood?
Apparently so.
Federal officials had announced in November plans to hold the trials of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other self-professed 9/11 terrorists in a federal courthouse – right in the middle of [...]

January 30th, 2010 | Tags: 9/11 terror trials, Bloomberg, chinatown, Chinese Americans, Governors Island, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, lower Manhattan, Manhattan, new york city, Washington D.C. | Category: posts | Leave a comment

I just had the best Cheung Fun I’ve ever had in Manhattan.
I have always said New York City Chinese food is decent, at best. Never amazing. Much lower in the ranks when compared to my hometown of Toronto, the great Chinese food mecca that is Vancouver, and the most awesome city that is Hong Kong.
But [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Tags: cheung fun, chinatown, food, Grand Street, hong kong, Hong Wong, Manhattan, new york city, Toronto, Vancouver, 肠粉 | Category: posts | Leave a comment

Admittedly, I have walked by 31 Canal St. and never looked twice.
It is an old, shuttered electronics shop with a sign that reads “ABC  enith”  – It’s missing the Z in “Zenith.”
But if I looked up, I would have seen this beautiful white façade, festooned by masks, wreaths and griffins.
And inside, the old chandeliers [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Tags: canal street, chinatown, CREATE, Loew's Canal Street Theater, Lower East Side, movie palace, movie theater, new york city, Rebecca Lepkoff | Category: posts | Leave a comment

Happening NOW – Google.CN seems to be scouring the Internet as any normal Google search engine should.
Meaning, you type in a few words and you’ll get whatever you are looking for. No strange message saying the website you are trying to seek is forbidden. No watching the cursor load and load and load and load… [...]

January 13th, 2010 | Tags: censorship, China, firewall, GFW, google, google.CN, internet, netizens | Category: posts | Leave a comment

“The passion for the craft younger journalists have will keep them heading to far flung places … Media institutions need to find a better way to prepare and better support reporters.”
An interesting report from TIME.com:

January 11th, 2010 | Tags: dangerous, Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, freelancers, freelancing, journalism, reporting | Category: posts | Leave a comment

Someone asked me about what direction the blog will take in the coming year. You may have noticed the change of the banner, from a bubbling Sichuan hot pot to a beautiful night panorama of the Manhattan skyline taken from a Brooklyn pier.
You also may have noticed my last two posts have been about my [...]

January 10th, 2010 | Tags: China, chinatown, city life, decisions, DNAinfo, Girls Prep Charter School, Lower East Side, Manhattan, Manhattan Bridge, new york city, stress | Category: posts | Leave a comment

Two days ago, I started getting hate mail from taxidermists, hunters and self-described animal experts. One e-mail came from as far away as Australia.
When a large animal bust reportedly fell off the wall of a Lower East Side restaurant and struck a woman on the head, many press reports identified it as that of a [...]

January 7th, 2010 | Tags: caribou head, DNAinfo, lawsuit, Lower East Side, Manhattan, moose head, new york, taxidermists, White Slab Palace | Category: posts | Comments (4)