Maybe it’s always best to ask what type of meat it is before and not after you tell them to put it on your plate. Pig’s feet. I still want it.
Taste Good – 18 W 25th St. (btwn Broadway & 6th St), NYC
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Lan Zhou Hand Pulled Noodle
One of the first food blog posts I was ever fascinated with was this pork bone hand pulled noodle soup on Cheap Ass Food. It inspired me to food blog. Headed out there with Jimmy and Brian. Finally a food blog date with someone who can read and speak Chinese …and who could tell me if they are calling me a gringo. Brian said the door had the word “glass” written on it in Chinese, so no one would walk into it. I got the ox tail soup in honor of Chinese New Year. I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to eat ox in the Year of the Ox. It almost seems wrong, like putting chicken in your eggs. But they served it to me and I ate it. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Lan Zhou Handmade Noodle – 144 East Broadway (btw Allen & Essex) Chinatown, NY
…one time I helped an old monk who was stranded and lost. He gave me his mobile phone and I spoke to someone in English and told them where he was. I was able to use the address from the awning of this restaurant to to tell them. There’s probably some good monk luck coming my way and maybe a good moral in there somewhere.
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Pizza in the Morning, Pizza in the Evening, Pizza at Brunchy Time
Once again, Graham Ave is bumpin. Checked out the new brick oven pizza spot …for brunch? There’s egg on my pizza. It works. Really works. It’s BYOB for now. So I ran to the corner liquor store for a $5 pint of Georgi to put into the virgin bloody marys. Rusty points out how you can get 10 Russian men drunk on $5.
Motorino – 319 Graham Ave (btw Ainslie & Devoe St) Brooklyn, NY 11211
Obamanali
Shonali came back from D.C. to bring us ignauration souvenirs. Really cool paper weight and a T-shirt with all the Illinois presidents. It’s really weird seeing a shirt with both Obama and Ronald Reagan on it. I told Shonali about how the Secret is getting me an awesome new bedroom. She then recalled how she visualized the same thing for me last week. How if I really organized my space, I could have a really awesome place. So we apparently did a double whammy on the universe. I just wished we visualized someone cleaning up for me.
Lokal Flood
Everyone was asleep and the buzzer rang. I thought I was dreaming it. I looked over and saw that it looked a little wet on the floor. Figured I spilled something. I touched it and it splattered. Then got up and I was standing in a puddle. At the door were four fighters come to save the day. The construction building next door flooded their whole basement and it seeped into our building. Our neighbors closer to the building got a foot and a half and we got a couple of inches. A lot of stuff got ruined and all the guitars got wet. Fortunately we had a house full of guests and Beth from the third floor and her boyfriend helped me move my stuff. I’m so grateful for my friends.
While we were all standing in the water moving things, Danny realized that there was a lot of stuff plugged in and we risked electrocution. That was pretty scary, but he successfully pulled out all the cords from the outlets. I was hoping that no one would find anything embarrassing in my room. At that moment, I saw a NYC condom (in its subway wrapper) floating around in the water. Everyone later admitted to seeing it.
Rusty made pizza while we watched the fire fighters pump out water from the building next door. I put Danny’s pineapples on it to make Hawaiian pizza – kinda fitting since my bed is like an island …Lānaʻi (The Pineapple Isle).
I needed to get out of the house to get a bloody mary. We drove to this cool looking brunch place in Greenpoint advertising $3 bloody marys, bellinis and screwdrivers. Awesome! I’ll have 3.
Thinking how this could of happen since I now know the Secret, I remembered last week I was just thinking how cool it would be to clear out the junk and make my basement bedroom a palace. I sure have the space. So perhaps the universe is giving me a good kick in the butt. Now I do have to throw my stuff out. So I’m going to make this work. Maybe I’ll finally open that suitcase I haven’t opened since I moved to New York 6 years ago. Or maybe just throw it away. I’m not sure I want to find out what’s inside.
Lokal – 905 Lorimer St (btw Bedford & Driggs Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11222
Pagoda Thai
Suzy Chapsticks and Ivy in town along with Danny and Theresa’s sister. It’s a full house. Checked out the new Thai on Graham. Right now it’s BYOB. I love BYOB! BYOB Saget.
Pagoda – 333 Graham Ave (btw Devoe & Metropolitan Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11211
Last Stop Hong Kong Station
They have a cool $3 menu with noodle bowls like squid balls & ho fun, pork intestine & cooked noodle, spam & egg on ramen. It’s hard to stick with a couple of toppings when they have curried fish balls, pigs feet, chicken wings, baby bak choy. The lady behind the counter started speaking Chinese and I didn’t quite understand. So I started speaking English thinking she would too. But she kept with the Chinese and I kept with the English. I don’t know if we really understood each other, but we understood the meaning of pointing.
Then I picked up a chinese sausage bun close to the subway stop. I tried my best speaking Chinese to the lady there. She didn’t understand what I was trying to say so she started to speak English. But I kept trying to speak Chinese.
Hong Kong Station – 45 Division St (btw Catherine & Market St) NYC 10002
Sun Light Bakery Corp – 160 E Broadway (btw East Broadway & Pike St) NYC 10002
Kakaw! Kakaw!
“Pio Pio” is how Peruvians think a chicken clucks. Like how Spanish people think dogs go “guau guau”. Oh I think they speak the same language. Anyway Jody and Christa take me to this cool Peruvian place in Greenpoint. A nice big plate of 1/4 chicken with beans and rice for $5.25. They have pretty cute waitress that are funny and dance and fight over the mp3 player playing classic 90′s oldies like the Cure and that song “How Bizarre How Bizarre”. I hear they also have a cool spanish band playing on Saturdays. Most importantly they have green sauce.
I got a huge appetizer plate that’s like a sampler of sorts (i.e. poo poo platter). It had this delicious potato with spicy cheesy sauce and the thing I really wanted to try –beef hearts. Call me Captain Beefheart. It tasted like beef teriyaki for real. I had beef heart leftovers that I brought to work. And when I was putting it on a plate to reheat, this cute voice actress came up and thought it looked really good. She wanted to know more. But I didn’t have the heart to tell her.
Pio Pio Riko – 996 Manhattan Ave, Greenpoint Brooklyn 11222
DhaBa Indian Lunch Buffet
Braised Veal Shoulder Blade Chop
j-CATION Taste Japan @ Japan Society This Saturday
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