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...
Hidden Gem on Canal Street
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...
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...
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