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January 12, 2006 2

Petite Abeille (NYC: Chelsea)

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I heard that there was a Belgian food boom in NYC awhile back but it has faded. I first walked by Petite Abeille at night and saw all those TinTin characters on the wall! *O*!!! This is ten blocks from office but we still walked. However the menu in the Chelsea’s branch is very minimal […]

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January 11, 2006 7

Cha-An (NYC: East Village)

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This time it’s Japanese teahouse! Also around the little Tokyo corner. I got the Chef’s 3 course dessert specials. $16 with your choice of tea. Macha Latte, very good but bad choice, sweet vs sweet… XP Chocolate Shouffle with mochi. Red Bean icecream with Sake, and fancy bamboo box for cookies. ^^;; Even though small […]

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January 10, 2006 9

Cafe Sabarsky (NYC: Uptown East)

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If I thought MoMA’s cafe was awesome, the museum cafe at Neue Gallerie totally blows me away! Of course it is more $$$. Even so there’s already a long queue outside the beautiful early 20th century bentwood room (with Adolf Loos & Otto Wagner’s designs). So I dined at the less pretty underground cafe but […]

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January 9, 2006 5

26 Seats (NYC: East Village)

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Pate and the very fantastic Quail, it’s better than this. My friend recommended me this tiny French restaurant on the East side called 26 Seat where she lives. Very valued. the main course are mostly $13 – $20. It is very dark and narrow, very intimate and friendly. The place was packed but luckily I […]

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January 9, 2006 4

Typhoon (NYC: East Village)

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I met a freelancer in the office and she showed me around her East Village neighborhood. There is sort of a “Little Tokyo” corner here and lots of authentic Japanese pubs and restaurants. We ate at this Izakaya style pub with her bf! There’s another popular crowd waiting outside Izakaya down the street that has […]

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