Of all the neighborhoods I go into, the one I’m least likely to eat in is Chinatown. I love Chinese food and Chinatown boasts some great Chinese eating, but I’m generally put off by the smell from the grocery stores. I’ve mentioned this issue in an earlier post. But there’s one place in Chinatown that [...]
Archive for the ‘Chinatown’ category
Tea Time at Ten Ren Tea Time
October 20, 2007Wandering Chinatown
September 1, 2007This isn’t a real easy post. In my LES post, I confessed that I find nothing “cool” about Chinatown. I don’t. That doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it, but I don’t get a frisson of anticipation when I go there. What I get is a stench. This is coming from a man with a minimal sense of [...]
Wandering the Lower East Side (LES)
August 28, 2007The Lower East Side is an old staple of mine. I started visiting it well over a year ago and, until I started ankling my way around Harlem, I considered it the coolest part of Manhattan. Despite Harlem’s cool status (and my somewhat dampened love of that place), LES is still cool. It is also so all-over-the-place [...]
