Congee Village
July 29, 2010 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cheap Eats, Chinatown, Chinese, Cuisine, Downtown Lunch, Manhattan, Restaurants
After a couple of hours at the batting cages, BF and I had sufficiently worked up an appetite – despite my brunch – and met up with BlindBaker plus BF’s former coworker, JP (I don’t know why I referred to him as this in a previous post - one of the downsides to using initialed nicknames constantly) and his wife, VSa, to grab some food. JP and VSa wanted to hit up Congee Village in Chinatown, which caused both BlindBaker and I to cringe internally, but I decided to put my gameface on and put aside my prejudices. (With a name [...]
High Pearl
February 15, 2010 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under Around NYC, Asia, By Name, Cheap Eats, Chinese, Cuisine, Elmhurst, Queens, Restaurants
For my brother’s recent birthday, we went to High Pearl. High Pearl, which I may or may not have mentioned before, is the place my family goes to consistently. I mean, since the time I was 10 or younger. I’ve eaten here so many times over the years, but I can honestly say I haven’t eaten the entire menu because we usually don’t switch up our order too much. (I did, however, come here with friends a few times, and my friends order such totally, completely different dishes, it was really amazing.) Shark’s Fin soup. Please don’t tell me about [...]
