From Chinatown streets to Washington D.C.
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...
Best Cheung Fun 肠粉 in Chinatown
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...
China focus?
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...
Moose or Caribou?
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...
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