Cha Chan Tang

After Nom Wah, we decided to walk over to Cha Chan Tang, which was only a few blocks away.  A while back, StB told us about the Special HK Style Milk Tea, which was put into bottles that were then placed into buckets of ice, so as to not dilute the tea.  We all ordered the special HK style ‘lai cha’ (literally, milk tea) for $3.95, though there were plenty of people around us eating dinner still.  The place was pretty bumpin’ on a Friday night, with people eating dinner, having specialty tea drinks, etc.  BB and I both commented [...]

Nom Wah Tea Parlor

After I’d spoken highly of Nom Wah, my girlfriends decided they wanted dim sum for dinner one night.  So after Brindle Room, I walked down towards Chinatown for some Nom Wah.  I arrived about 5 minutes late, but a miscommunication led to HB and StB ordering a ton of food before anyone else got there (they thought I’d said that the food took a while to be made).  First up, ha cheung or shrimp in rice noodle rolls.  Again, very fresh, slippery noodles… yum!  I will say they weren’t as good as last time, but still very good.  Rice crueller [...]

Grand Sichuan – Wisp Contest Winner!!!

So my faithful readers, you may remember a few weeks back when I had this nifty contest asking What Would YOU Wisp for?  I ran the numbers through Random.org and Corinne, with this comment, was the lucky winner.  It was a little awkward making plans to have lunch with someone with whom I’d not spoken more than a few words in the past, but I brushed past that.  After all, I’ve met lots of people through this wonderful thing called the internet.  How bad could it be?  Given that I arrived a few minutes late (okay, 15) and Corinne was [...]

Burger Shoppe

One rather warm Friday afternoon, I made my way down to my old stompin’ grounds – across the street from where I used to work – and met up with my buddy, Cookie, for lunch… at Burger Shoppe.  I’ve been many times since they first opened (and I thought I’d posted about it more than once, but apparently not!), but right before I left, they released the mac&cheese burger… which, unfortunately, was only available after 4pm and I went during lunch to check it out.  Boo.  Since then, though, they put it on their regular menu, so this time, I [...]

Nom Wah Tea Parlor

One recent night after getting my haircut, I decided I was hungry and that I should wander Chinatown to find food.  TC decided to join me, and after we’d shared two banh mi from Paris Sandwich, and then each taken down a pork chop over rice and a chicken leg over rice respectively, it suddenly occurred to me: dim sum, made to order, at New York’s oldest dim sum parlor.  Uhh… yes please?!  So we headed over to Nom Wah to indulge in what would – are you counting? – be our third dinner of the night.  Instead of dim [...]

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