I was very excited when my pal Eric—who knows pretty much everything a white dude could possibly know about the culinary wonders of Flushing’s Chinatown—sent me a text confirming that he’d be joining me for Taiwanese food. It got better when he promised that a pair of his Taiwanese friends would be coming with us. […]
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Like most people who live in Manhattan, I’m guilty of perpetually ignoring the Bronx. I’ve eaten food from almost 90 countries, but have deigned to visit the Bronx only three times. That’s kind of lame, and I kind of suck. But my anti-Bronx suckitude isn’t actually all that bad by Manhattanite standards: according to a […] Read More >> |
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Our Dutch evening had the potential to be absolutely epic. The friendly folks at the Netherlands-America Foundation organized a night of Dutch jazz and Dutch food as part of Five Dutch Days, an annual festival celebrating Dutch history and culture in NYC. (Is anybody else impressed by the fact that I just used the word […] Read More >> |
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As a former waiter, I am thoroughly embarrassed by our attempt to annoy the living hell out of the staff at Rudar Soccer Club, a Croatian-Istrian bar and restaurant in Astoria. Four of us—including a legendary shark-eating Slovenian and an American dude who is abnormally chummy with orangutans—showed up at around 5:00. A fifth diner […] Read More >> |
