Archives:
- So I Finally Went to Grimaldi’s
(Or, Stuff White People Like #89: Waiting In Line For Pizza.)
My dinner tonight was three slices of what some have called the best pizza in New York City. This, in a city with entire blogs devoted to the pursuit of the perfect slice. When I moved here three years ago I thought my then-boyfriend […]
- Dimsum Stories
Yesterday I went to Jade Asian in Flushing, Queens, and had some of the first Chinese-tasting Chinese food I have eaten in my three years in New York City. It unleashed a torrent of childhood memories: some of them I worked out after the meal by shopping for Stephen Chow DVDs in the Hong Kong […]
- My Favourite Izakaya
I am obsessed with Ariyoshi’s fried chicken. It comes floating in ponzu, so you need to act fast before the crust goes mushy. I think about this dish all the time. It’s fried in smaller pieces than Southern-style chicken, so you get a higher crunch-to-flesh ratio. And the thinner batter allows the chicken’s own skin […]
- A Silly Thing That I Do
I have a menu board in my house, and when my friends come to dinner, I use it.
Unfortunately, since I bought the rusty thing second-hand at a restaurant relic store on Atlantic Avenue, it comes with a frustratingly incomplete set of letters. (Letters that, incidentally, I had to soak in bleach for two whole days […]
