WE LOVE QUICKLY, the bubble tea store at 11 Pell Street in Chinatown, for serving our most favoritist drink, taro milk tea with black tapioca. For either $3.75 (large) or $2.75 (small), we could choose blueberry, taro, passion fruit, and green apple. We also—and this is so friggin’ cool—got to choose the “bubbles”—jelly, cake, pudding, sour cream.
– Simon Chu
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on December 13th, 2009 | 
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WAY #1: DOUGHNUT PLANT.
We love artificial flavoring, but we make exception for the doughnuts at Doughnut Plant. All doughnuts are made with—yechh—natural ingredients, filled daily with fresh fruit jelly. Even glazes are made from fresh fruits and nuts. We are seriously thinking of getting healthy.
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on December 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
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You can’t be both. To find out which 12-step group to attend, visit Jacques Torres chocolate factory on Water Street, in Brooklyn’s DUMBO. Jacques Torres, once the top pastry chef in New York — he starred at Le Cirque — opened his chocolate shop in 2000, one of the first retailers in the neighborhood. For $1.50 per piece, you can eat the best tasting or you can eat the best tasting chocolate in the world.
Not ready to make the trip [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion, The City on February 14th, 2007 | No Comments »
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The Horn & Hordart commercials used to claim “you can’t eat atmosphere,” probably why fancy million-dollar interiors never impressed us, also probably why we did Krystal’s Cafe, the best Filipino restaurant in Manhattan. It wasn’t just the tokwat baboy and the Kare kare that filled our gut and took our breath, it was also place. Simple tables, nice waiters, cheap food. We spent $40 for two, and no way could we finish. Went home with four doggy bags.
We weren’t done. [...]
Posted in Food & Fashion on January 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
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