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Passing by the Hasidic Jewish community of Brooklyn

April 11, 2012 eating out

What’s the first thing you do when you open your eyes in the morning? Though this is kind of sad, the first thing I do is reach for my cell phone (which sits, charging, next to my pillow) and check my email inbox with blurry eyes. It’s probably not the best thing to do the [...]

Tagged as: baked good, bakery, Beford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Clinton Hill, Concrete, donuts, dough, downtown Brooklyn, frozen custard, Hasidic, Jewish, Korn's bakery, New York, rugelach, Shake Shack, Williamsburg

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Hipsters: Love or hate them?

April 9, 2012 eating out

For our last day in NYC, my friends and I decided to dress Bohemian. Well, yeah. That’s our definition of “Bohemian”—I think we dressed more LA-hipster instead. The unexpected warm weather really messed us up. That was our conceived theme of the day, because we were going to hit up the two most hipster areas [...]

Tagged as: bagel, banana, Boubouki, Brooklyn, cream, cream cheese, Essex Street Market, Greek, hipsters, New York, nutella, pie, Pies N Thighs, spinach, subway, The Bagel Store, Williamsburg

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NYC Day 2 Dinner: Powerpuff Girls storm Shake Shack and street carts

April 4, 2012 eating out

I was walking my friend Alda to her subway station after a drink at a speakeasy with my two travelmates, Marilyn and Tracy, when she said something to me that I myself have repeated several times. “I’m surprised you’re so close with them,” Alda told me. “You guys are so different!” It was the first [...]

Tagged as: 56th and 6th, biryani cart, burger, caffebene, chicken, halal cart, indian, lamb, M&M, New York, powerpuff girls, rice, Shake Shack, Times Square

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Gossip Girl wrote this post (nah, not really)

April 1, 2012 eating out

Hey Upper East Siders (and everyone beyond who isn’t fortunate enough to be called one), Gossip Girl here. Today I’ve been blackmailed to write this post about three West Coast gals who skipped over to our territory in Manhattan in exchange for my anonymity. What’s a Gossip Girl to do? Girl’s gotta preserve her identity [...]

Tagged as: Chelsea Market, chocolate, cookies, crack pie, gelato, gossip girl, Grom, hot chocolate, Jacques Torres, Laduree, macaron, Meatpacking District, Momofuku Milk Bar, New York, peanut butter, Upper East Side, Upper West Side

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NYC Day 2 Breakfast: Papaya, Dogs, Bagels and Witches

March 28, 2012 eating out

There’s a reason why I don’t like to watch films in movie theaters. It’s because I’ll be distracted the whole time by the itching urge to flash open my smartphone and start googling. Whether it is an issue discussed on film, or the background/filmography/availability of a hot actor, or a random word I don’t understand, [...]

Tagged as: 'wichcraft, bagel, cream cheese, Ess-a-Bagel, goat cheese, hotdog, New York, papaya dog, sandwich, saurkraut, Tom Colicchio, vegetarian

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NYC Day 1 Night Crawl: Falafel, Belgian Fries and Alcohol

March 26, 2012 eating out

New York University was my second top choice for college during my high school years. I might have been a NYU student. Heck, I might have become a proud New Yorker— living in a Brooklyn apartment with four other college students, spending an hour each day in the subway, strutting past the New York Times [...]

Tagged as: bars, beer, Belgian, Chinatown, chinese, cocktail, dinner, falafel, fries, Greenwich Village, Irish, Mamoun's, mayonnaise, McSorley's, New York, pommes frites, pub, St. Marks Place, Xi'an Famous Foods