Tuesday, February 2, 2010

It's snowing


There's something irresistible about footprints in snow.

Doesn't it make you feel meditative and a little sad? No matter who you're with, you inevitably end up walking in silence through the snow as it falls around your shoulders, unable to resist looking at your feet, at the footprints that we make and those we leave behind us.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Tea Time

Most of my good friends know this about me- I love tea dearly. I think that I usually drink about 5 cups of green tea a day, which along with the coffee I enjoy having, makes for an incredibly dehydrated and caffeinated me. Hooray.

So I went grocery shopping at H-mart today and got a box of the tea that I have at home.

Upon closer inspection, I saw that the english name for this type of tea is Seal tea. Seal?

Closer...

Even closer....

Bingo! Now isn't that precious.

And here is that precious seal again.

The name of the tea actually originates from the markings on the root of the herb, which supposedly resemble the star of David. Seal--> Solomon's Seal--> ...what?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Go Go Curry and Joe's Shanghai

I visited quite a few restaurants over break but didn't take any pictures except for at Go Go Curry and Joe's Shanghai. Neither are particularly expensive and delicious meals can be had for around ten dollars.

Go Go Curry...I have nothing but praise for this place. The combination of katsu and curry is deceptively simple- the katsu should be crisp and freshly fried, and the curry should be warm and savoury, possibly with the addition of a few vegetables. Somehow, the katsu and curry at Go Go Curry goes above and beyond this, making for a ridiculously tasty dish. There are a handful of foods that I've encountered in my yet short life that I can safely say taste nothing like anything else I've had before. Go Go Curry's curry is one of them. The same can be said for Pat's cheesesteaks, Pierre Herme macarons, and pizza at Otto. They have a taste as distinctive as your mom's cooking-the kind of flavour that you can pick out of a crowd in a flash.

I like their logo a lot too :)

To tell you the truth, I forgot to take a picture of the actual food, so I had to settle for a picture of the plastic display. In my defense, this is pretty much what the actual dish looks like so there isn't much of a difference.

The theme of Go Go Curry is 55, which is Matsui's jersey number, so the staff wear baseball jerseys and incorporate little quirks into their daily operations, like giving a free topping on the 5th, 15th, and 25th of every month, and opening at 10:55 and closing at 9:55.

And now for Joe's Shanghai, that delicious bastion of soup dumplings in Chinatown.

This is an image I stole from Google showing the swarming crowds fighting to get into the doors. I've never seen it as crowded as it is in the picture, but I would imagine that there would be more foot traffic in the summer.

This colour isn't green, it's imperial jade.

Pork soup dumplings!



The subgum pan fried noodles. I always thought that subgum was a type of foreign vegetable, like taro, but it actually means a mixture of everything. In this case, the "subgum" referred to a combination of different meats. I wonder what it stands for...Shrimp Usually Bring Giant User Manuals? Sometimes Useless Bears Give Unsatisfying Massages?

Go Go Curry
273 West 38th Street
New York, NY 10018

Joe's Shanghai
9 Pell Street
New York, New York 10013

Sunday, December 6, 2009

A New Voyage


I am starting a new project but it is a secret.

Hopefully I will have most of it finished by early January.

It's a mystery!

Saturday, November 21, 2009

My apologies

I like to tell myself that my personal life philosophy is simple...I tell myself that I must always love others and that I must try to stay appreciative of my blessings. The sad truth is that I never seem to act on what I pretend are my principles. Theoretically, I believe in it with all my heart, but realistically, my selfishness always gets in the way of how I want to behave. I pursue what I want without considering how my actions might affect other people… I hold other people to a standard that I myself can never match up to… I make selfish demands for love and friendship that I don’t necessarily deserve.

I think that I am happy most of the time. And really, it doesn’t take a lot to make me happy. Sometimes my happiest moments are based on really trivial things, like finding out the best way to organize my socks/underwear drawer, or having someone rush by on their way to class, only to stop for a little hug, or making doodles of anthropomorphic animals having adventures in the margins of my terrible class notes. My mom always said that I was good at entertaining myself, and I am.

I wish I could be more mature.

It’s not as if guilt just springs out of nowhere…there must be something you did that made a part of you cry out in dissent. Maybe you muted that voice then, and covered it up in excuses and frivolity to try to forget, but it has a way of resurfacing from time to time. Sometimes I have mornings when I wake up a bit too early, and look out the window to find a grey, silent sky… and resting my fingertips on the cold glass, I suddenly get the sense of a drop of rain hitting a well hidden somewhere inside myself.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Macarons

Do you remember the movie Marie Antoinette? It was unremarkable save for two points: 1) it proved that Sofia Coppola should stop making subpar movies and stick to designing even more subpar handbags for Louis Vuitton and 2) it provided tons of Laduree eye candy.

If you chose not to go see it in theatres and wisely spent two hours of your life doing something else, here is a quick recap in photos!

Kirsten Dunst lounges around licking whipped cream off her fingers as her maids tend to her grooming needs.

Marie Antoinette goes under the guillotine and unfortunately gets her head cut off. :(

And then for all the nice lovely, frilly things in between!

She eats more pastries!

. Did you know that Laduree actually provided all of the gorgeous pastries featured in this movie?





Ah macarons...how I long for you! Now that I'm subsisting on cold sandwiches, I feel like I've grown more appreciative of good food...sort of like how prisoners on death row fantasize about their last meal, not that being at school is anything like being on death row.

Monday, November 9, 2009

:(

I haven't been able to upload any photos since I lost the usb cord for my nikon, which is partially why this blog has been so devoid of new posts as of late. Another reason is that I haven't been fooding as much...or fooding with my camera.

:(

I made a realization recently about something that we lack here at georgetown. No, it's not diversity (lol). Have you realized that we don't have any doughnut shops around here? There's a dean & deluca for satisfying random pastry cravings, as well as Le Pain Quotidien for other breads, and of course, Georgetown Cupcake for cupcakes, but no doughnut shop! This is preposterous!

Since I don't have any nice food pictures to show you, here are some random pictures of cute things instead!









And of course...here are some of Knut the cuddly polar bear cub, who isn't so cuddly and little anymore.