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January 17, 2006 4

Cendrillon (NYC: Soho)

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I always tried to get out earlier working so I get to do a bit of shopping; the stores here closed surprisingly early. I saw this Filipino+Japanese fusion place at Soho. Turns out it’s an overpriced place, and all asian girl + white man couples filling up the entire place that night. (so awkward and […]

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January 17, 2006 6

Negrill Chelsea (NYC: Chelsea)

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When it’s not too busy at work we tried to explore around for a good longer lunch (instead of deli food all the time). Menupages.com is a great resource and I found this Jamaican restaurant Negril. I had the Ackee & Saltfish, Jamaica’s favorite exotic fruit (and national dish) cook-up with saltfish. Ackee is the […]

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January 17, 2006 8

dim sum (NYC: Chinatown)

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So I went with Noami and her bf for dim sum in Chinatown, the restaurant is called something else in Chinese but as usual called something 88 in English. It is inside a very 70s mall with chandelier, escalators, lightboxed waterfall photographs…it is truly frozen in time. It is quite empty so I figure this […]

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January 16, 2006 5

Chinatown Icecream Factory (NYC: Chinatown)

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Ginger (too tame, not spicy enough) and Black Sesame + Greentea (black sesame is the best!). Pumpkin Pie flavor. Heavy pouring rain yesterday, what a bad day to go to Chinatown! The already narrow, crowded and vibrant city is even more chaotic with all the umbrella joustle. But at least the weather was still warm […]

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January 15, 2006 4

Back to normal

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For one whole week NYC’s weather was abnormally warm (they called it ‘heat wave’ and people asked me if it feel like LA). Yesterday there was a never ending rain and snow storm and today the weather is back to normal = bitterly freezing. I got so used to the heat, I was just about […]

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