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April 11, 2012
SUNDANCE IN SOHO
A movie pass around the globe
Blogs
April 8, 2012
Year of The Takeout Day 98: New Hong Kong Kitchen
Ma Po Tofu from New Hong Kong Kitchen (756 Grand Street, Brooklyn, 718-388-1331)
Blogs
July 25, 2011
Magnolia Is Basically Planning to Take Over the Planet
bearbooandyumyum/FlickrSoon, world, this will all be yours.Although you could be forgiven for thinking that Magnolia Bakery had already achieved worldwide domination, its reach extends only to New York, Los Angeles, and Dubai. But that's about to change.
Blogs
July 5, 2011
Beard of Bees: A Stroll Through Flushing's New World Mall
The Main Street entrance of Flushing's new New World Mall Remember the Old Navy on Main Street at the corner of Main and Roosevelt? Providing the best public restrooms in Flushing and haphazard heaps of even cheaper and bigger clothes than the other Old Navies in town? Well, it's gone, and ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2011
Detective Dee: The Mystery of the Phantom Flame
The Main Street entrance of Flushing's new New World Mall Remember the Old Navy on Main Street at the corner of Main and Roosevelt? Providing the best public restrooms in Flushing and haphazard heaps of even cheaper and bigger clothes than the other Old Navies in town? Well, it's gone, and ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2011
Things You Don't Need: Funny Kitchen's Banana Slicer
Purchased by Fork in the Road's San Francisco correspondent Tracy Van Dyk in the Hong Kong airport, the banana slicer is one kitchen utensil you can probably do without. How hard is it to slice a banana? It takes 10 seconds and you can do it with a butter knife. Yet there is a special kitche ... More >>
Blogs
April 28, 2011
Shark Fin Soup Continues to Be Served at a Troubling Number of NYC Restaurants
Bloody harvest.While plenty of people have asked why New York restaurants continue to serve blue fin tuna, they've largely ignored the similarly problematic inclusion of shark fin soup on menus across the city. But according to the Humane Society, there's ample reason to pay attention.
Film
March 16, 2011
Combination of Noir and Immigration Tale Doesn't Quite Work in Motherland
Bloody harvest.While plenty of people have asked why New York restaurants continue to serve blue fin tuna, they've largely ignored the similarly problematic inclusion of shark fin soup on menus across the city. But according to the Humane Society, there's ample reason to pay attention.
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Our 10 Best Things to Eat in Manhattan's Chinatown
In A-Wah's Hong Kong-style wonton lo mein, the noodles are cooked al dente, and the broth is served on the side. The amazing thing about Manhattan's Chinatown, no matter how it ebbs and flows, no matter how many restaurants come and go: It's always been a bastion of excellent cheap eats. Th ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2011
Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Things to Eat in Manhattan's Chinatown
Wah Fung No. 1 Fast Food, Inc. always has a line waiting outside for its excellent charcuterie at jaw-droppingly low prices, but will it make our top 10 treats? As other Chinatowns have grown and prospered, Mahattan's -- the city's first and most ancient, dating at least to the 1860s -- has ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2010
Kosher Cocktails; $835 Thomas Keller Dinners
L'Chaim is a new kosher vodka imported from Israel just in time for kosher holiday cocktails. [NY Daily News] The 415 spots available at six dinners by Thomas Keller in Hong Kong were all snapped up six months in advance at $835 per person. [Wall Street Journal] The recession in Europe has ... More >>
Blogs
November 6, 2010
Mayor Bloomberg is Counting Down the Days Until He's Done
Everyone keeps asking Mayor Mike Bloomberg if he is running for president in 2012, despite the fact that he has not indicated, ever, that he plans on it. In fact, quite the contrary -- he keeps denying it. But they even asked him in Hong Kong. "No," he said. "Definitely no?" the reporter ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2010
Posts of the Week
Here we are at last, the latter part of a Friday afternoon. And so it is time to gaze wistfully over our shoulder at the week that was: In a two-part interview, Junoon's Vikas Khanna talked about good Diwali eats, dishes he'll serve at his new restaurant, and what foods he misses from his childhood ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
A Look at the McRib Cult; Waiterpay.com Lets Waiters Know Their Rights
Corn futures surged on Monday, and with sharp gains in soybeans, sugar, and coffee, worries over the rising cost of food have been sparked. [NY Times] Los Angeles food trucks are about to be subject to the same health department rules as brick-and-mortar restaurants, including letter grades. ... More >>
Film
September 29, 2010
Bruce Lee Mentor Ip Man Gets His Own Kickass Movie
Corn futures surged on Monday, and with sharp gains in soybeans, sugar, and coffee, worries over the rising cost of food have been sparked. [NY Times] Los Angeles food trucks are about to be subject to the same health department rules as brick-and-mortar restaurants, including letter grades. ... More >>
Blogs
September 24, 2010
Our 10 Best NYC Chinese Restaurants, 2010 Edition
The "boiled beef with hot-spicy sauce" is every bit as mouth searing as it looks, but there are plenty of blander options -- such as "special spinach pancake" -- on Lu Xiang Yuan's menu. Like an arcing missile, Chinese cuisine in New York moves so fast, you can barely keep track of it. Thus, ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Where Am I Eating? Saint's Alp Teahouse
Fried daikon cake fritters. Alas, the dish I picked this week was just too indistinct-looking for a good game of Where Am I Eating? (Someone often guesses correctly within the first hour, so I was trying to be tricky.) Those pepper-flecked nubs of fried stuff are actually daikon radish cake ... More >>
Blogs
June 25, 2010
Everything You Know About Cooking Is Wrong: Iceberg Lettuce
simplyfreshfruit.comQuick, how many things can you think of to do with iceberg lettuce? It certainly constitutes one of the most discredited and abject foodstuffs on the planet. Can you even buy a head at the farmers' market? Let's see, you can cut it into wedges and serve it as a salad, dum ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2010
In Praise of Ovaltine
"You're Keats, you're Shelley, you're Ovaltine," goes the Cole Porter song You're the Top. Although you can buy your own tub of the malted milk powder at the supermarket, it's more fun to grab a warming cup of it at any Hong Kong-style cafe or bakery, where, among the buttered toast sandwiche ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 27, 2009
Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra
"You're Keats, you're Shelley, you're Ovaltine," goes the Cole Porter song You're the Top. Although you can buy your own tub of the malted milk powder at the supermarket, it's more fun to grab a warming cup of it at any Hong Kong-style cafe or bakery, where, among the buttered toast sandwiche ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2009
Incredibly Cheap Eats: Octopus Skewers
If you happen to be walking down Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park's Chinatown, especially on the weekend, follow your nose to the charcoal fires. There are several carts and street-side windows selling Northern Chinese-style charcoal barbecue skewers--lamb, beef, fish balls, and more, for bargai ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2009
Strange Snacks of the World: DuDu Pig Tofu
At the Hong Kong Supermarket on Hester Street, this package recommends itself, the enthusiastic pig on the front seeming to give you a thumbs-up. Maybe it's a pack of delicious sweet and spicy jerky? On closer inspection, the pig is actually flashing you the loser sign, and he's missing his pants. ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
What's The Dumbest Movie Ever Made?
Not "dumb" as in goofy and slapdash in a kind of likable-despite-itself way that at least manages to kill two hours. I mean "dumb" as in relentlessly, painfully, buzzsaw-to-the-brain inept and unwatchable, leaving you wonder who to sue to get those 120 minutes back. I'll start with an example: Pork ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2008
Christmas Dinner Debriefing
Every Christmas a bunch of pals and I head down to Chinatown for Christmas dinner. Not only because we love Chinese food, but because we've had enough of Christmas by that time, and need an escape. Chinatown provides a religion-neutral, anti-holiday setting, and accommodating big groups is a natur ... More >>
Film
April 29, 2008
As Tears Go By: Wong Kar-wai's First Moody Move
Two decades later, a leap revisited
Voice Choices
April 1, 2008
THE WONG WAY
A conversation with Hong Kong’s hottest director
Film
March 11, 2008
Flash Point's Phony Gravitas
Almost fun when it plays dumb
Film
January 29, 2008
The Eye
Almost fun when it plays dumb
Film
June 12, 2007
Flash in the Can
Lesbian schoolgirl terrorists and hair extensions gone wild? Must be the NYAFF
Film
January 30, 2007
'The Messengers'
Lesbian schoolgirl terrorists and hair extensions gone wild? Must be the NYAFF
Dining
April 4, 2006
Shrimp Mountain
Kinky new Flushing Thai offers oddball cuisine collection
Screens
January 17, 2006
Binge-Drinking and Despair in Hong's Dour Love Triangle
Kinky new Flushing Thai offers oddball cuisine collection
Dining
August 2, 2005
Magnificent Morsels
A brilliant dim sum specialist appears in the Brooklyn outback
Blogs
May 5, 2005
Whodunit: The British Consulate Bomb
A brilliant dim sum specialist appears in the Brooklyn outback
Film
November 23, 2004
Flight Club
Seeking a band of airborne rebels, a dancer and a swordsman get lost in orgasmic set design
Dining
November 16, 2004
Chop Suey Christmas
From lo mein to lobster in the city's five chinatowns
NYC Life
November 9, 2004
A No-Name Destination Serves Up Tchotchkes and Tipples
From lo mein to lobster in the city's five chinatowns
NYC Life
November 2, 2004
Asians in the Diaspora: The Journey, Not the Destination
From lo mein to lobster in the city's five chinatowns
Film
September 21, 2004
Studio of Flying Daggers
Ornate sets, emperor-peasant action, and royal-court face-offs highlight a Shaw Bros. retro
Film
September 7, 2004
Double Exposure
The enemies within: Crisscrossing moles face off in a stylish hall-of-mirrors mood piece
Dining
June 15, 2004
Democracy Now
Hong Kong Chinese restaurant in Jersey burbs put to a vote
Music
July 1, 2003
Maserati Does 185
Lost My Apartment, Now I Can't Spell
Film
June 17, 2003
In Between Days
The Realm of the Senses
Film
March 25, 2003
World Beat
Argentinean Cowboys, Tajik Thugs, Italian Gay Dwarf Taxidermists
NYC Life
October 8, 2002
Close Up On: Flushing
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Film
July 17, 2001
Flip-Side Stories
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Film
May 22, 2001
Fast Company
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Film
November 7, 2000
Eternal Return
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Books
August 22, 2000
Dungeons and Dragons
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Theater
November 3, 1998
Vegging Out
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