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more from 西安名吃

xanawu — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 03:20:13 +0000

I was supposed to take my parents somewhere to eat during their layover at JFK yesterday, but they didn’t make it out of the airport due to ticketing problems. Not to waste an opportunity to eat away from Manhattan, G and I headed to Flushing anyway.

I wanted to try this new Qingdao restaurant called M&T, [...]

a sunny day in flushing

xanawu — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:19:31 +0000

For foodies, it’s no secret that Queens is the home of New York’s best cuisine–and for Chinese and Korean it’s in Flushing, an easy (if long) ride on the 7 line all the way to Main Street. Here are a few photos of this vibrant neighbourhood:

Vendor scooping out seeds at a tea & herb shop:

Street [...]

nyc elections

xanawu — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:32:24 +0000

As New Yorkers voted for the richest man in the city for mayor, I spent the morning of November 3rd doing exit poll surveys for AALDEF. My shift started at 6 AM in District 20 of Flushing, Queens–which meant catching the subway at 4:30 from where I live.

Flushing is one of the most diverse communities [...]

xi’an in flushing

xanawu — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:32:30 +0000

the best food I’ve had in NYC was in a Flushing food court.

actually, the term ‘food court’ is misleading. it’s more like a collection of half a dozen Chinese food stalls in the basement of a place called Golden Mall (also a misnomer because the ‘mall’ appears to consist entirely of this basement).

after hmm-ing and [...]