A wise man told me this past week, “You know, you in D.C. You in the South now.” I guess I never really thought of it that way but yeah, there are significantly more people around me who drawl and shift their phonemes in ways foreign to me and I guess D.C. is technically under the Mason-Dixon line…
I realized a few hours ago that I never actually wrote the article about the wonderful package of Momofuku Milk Bar goodies I received from my boyfriend / frequent dining companion for my birthday (in February) this year, so the following article is a tad belated. Momofuku Milk Bar is a bakery and dessert shop…
Miami’s nightlife has a characteristic flashiness about it which can turn tacky at the snap of a finger. But after a few too many years of being surrounded by the dingy and the smug, the always quite dark nightlife of Boston, I have actually come to appreciate a little bit of juicy, loud pizazz and…
Another cool spot I visited in San Diego was Prep Kitchen. The restaurant has three locations, of which I went to India Street in Little Italy, only a few blocks from my office. Apparently my colleagues frequent the place for their Happy Hour special, which allows customers to try some of their signature tapas ($5 a…
I’m moving to Washington D.C. in a few days, and have been feeling quite nostalgic lately as a result. In the past week I packed up the room I grew up in, had multiple boxing-and-wining nights (as in putting things into boxes, while drinking wine) with some very good friends and I’ve taken long, meaningful…
On my last day in San Diego my boss took me out for a leisurely, long lunch at one of San Diego’s monumental seafood-with-a-view restaurants, The Fish Market Seafood Market and Restaurant’s Top of the Market, overlooking the San Diego Bay. The market is basically divided into a ground-level counter, where passers-by can pick up…
A few weeks ago in Nanhui, Shanghai I went out with a college student whom I was working with for a bite to eat, something spicy to warm me up after having lost my coat at the Beijing airport and thus having been freezing my butt off for days. Long story, but suffice it to…
On my recent trip to San Diego, my local colleague and guide suggested that we pop across the border and have some fun in Tijuana. Always open to new cultural experiences, I agreed. So, after 25 minutes and absolutely no border hassle whatsover, we found ourselves in a taxi cab in Mexico, headed for a…
For Valentine’s Day this year I received a wonderful gift from one of my favorite chocolatiers in Boston, L.A. Burdick. It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of their thick and wonderful hot chocolates and mochas, their collection of cocoa and coffee beans from different regions of the world. Their pastries, cakes and multicolored…
On the first night of my trip to Miami a few weeks ago, I begged my dinner companion to take me to a place representative of the cliché Miami experience. My flight had just barely made it out of Boston because of what at that point had been the 5th or 6th slushy, disgusting snowstorm of…
That Best Bite 