I have good news about food and bad news. First the good: Korean fried chicken, which I am perhaps biased about to begin with, is insanely good. Last night I went to Bon Chon Chicken in Ktown (at 314 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor between 31st and 32nd). While arguments rage about who has the better version of tongdalk chicken all I know is that what I ate last night was damn good.
Light, crispy, beautiful taste, the pickled radish great to go with it. But I have to admit, our crew of Koreans were in pain from the spicy version. Be careful, that stuff isn't fooling around. Unlike regular fried chicken I didn't feel overgreased and queasy afterwards. I just wanted more. And there is no better food to drink beer with. Bon Chon is a little unusual, it has that overkill modern asian aesthetic of welded metal and far too loud dj music... A nightclub that serves fried chicken if you will. But it's so tasty.
Ktown is a chunk of Manhattan around the Empire State Building, centered on West 32nd street between 5th and 6th ave. We went to karaoke afterwards and Dan the other GR blogger dropped by. This was Dan's first trip out to the modern Ktown and he remarked on how happening it was. It does tend to be one of the most crowded parts of the city on weekends, and one thing that's distinct about it is how much exists on floors above and below. That's no problem for us Asian people but very unusual in New York to put nightlife above up and off the street. Whether or not there's PC bangs or DVD bangs, I don't know. The past few years I've always dropped by ktown just a little bit, or had a meal there and split. Last night was a lot of fun to get lost in it, even if we did get blind drunk on soju.
My dad of all people just told me an interesting fact about soju: if you drink it cold, it doesn't metabolize until it reaches the temperature of your body in your system and that's when it has an effect on you. So that explains why all of a sudden we got wasted out of nowhere...
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Ok the bad news, this article recounts the discovery of a stranded boat in southeast asian waters which was full of 5000 animals, almost all endangered species. It made me sick to my stomach. I don't care what cultural rationales are behind the consumption of these animals. There are things about our culture that we need to abandon when they're damaging. Claudine and I had a short exchange on her blog but I am really moving towards considering that the real problem with our environmental crisis is totally perceptual and attitudinal. The trade in endangered species for medicine and food consumption is most disgusting because as the animals become more and more rare the market conditions lead to even more exclusivity and profit for the traders. When the simple fact remains if they would lay off for awhile these species might recover.
Is there any sense at all to the fact that in China a plate of Napoleon Wrasse lips goes for hundreds of dollars? The lips of a fish?
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I know I've been fairly absent the past few days, more later.
Light, crispy, beautiful taste, the pickled radish great to go with it. But I have to admit, our crew of Koreans were in pain from the spicy version. Be careful, that stuff isn't fooling around. Unlike regular fried chicken I didn't feel overgreased and queasy afterwards. I just wanted more. And there is no better food to drink beer with. Bon Chon is a little unusual, it has that overkill modern asian aesthetic of welded metal and far too loud dj music... A nightclub that serves fried chicken if you will. But it's so tasty.
Ktown is a chunk of Manhattan around the Empire State Building, centered on West 32nd street between 5th and 6th ave. We went to karaoke afterwards and Dan the other GR blogger dropped by. This was Dan's first trip out to the modern Ktown and he remarked on how happening it was. It does tend to be one of the most crowded parts of the city on weekends, and one thing that's distinct about it is how much exists on floors above and below. That's no problem for us Asian people but very unusual in New York to put nightlife above up and off the street. Whether or not there's PC bangs or DVD bangs, I don't know. The past few years I've always dropped by ktown just a little bit, or had a meal there and split. Last night was a lot of fun to get lost in it, even if we did get blind drunk on soju.
My dad of all people just told me an interesting fact about soju: if you drink it cold, it doesn't metabolize until it reaches the temperature of your body in your system and that's when it has an effect on you. So that explains why all of a sudden we got wasted out of nowhere...
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Ok the bad news, this article recounts the discovery of a stranded boat in southeast asian waters which was full of 5000 animals, almost all endangered species. It made me sick to my stomach. I don't care what cultural rationales are behind the consumption of these animals. There are things about our culture that we need to abandon when they're damaging. Claudine and I had a short exchange on her blog but I am really moving towards considering that the real problem with our environmental crisis is totally perceptual and attitudinal. The trade in endangered species for medicine and food consumption is most disgusting because as the animals become more and more rare the market conditions lead to even more exclusivity and profit for the traders. When the simple fact remains if they would lay off for awhile these species might recover.
Is there any sense at all to the fact that in China a plate of Napoleon Wrasse lips goes for hundreds of dollars? The lips of a fish?
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I know I've been fairly absent the past few days, more later.
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