One evening at dinner table in Chengdu Yinxiang, Pang Ye inadvertently muttered out how much she wanted to have Shanghai soup dumplings. It seems a tiny wish very easy to satisfy. So I propose tonight we meet in Joe's Shanghai tonight, on 56th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenue.
For the past a couple of years, we have spent a lot of Friday evenings in Chengdu Yinxiang, but we also explored some other interesting restaurants. We often were surprised by our little adventures. One of Jason's favorite restaurant is in Meat Packing District. Spice, a Thai restaurant built on the site of a former Belgium seafood restaurant, its setting is romantic and food delicious. "I am not sure whether the girl fell in love with me or just the restaurant after a bottle of
Merlot, " Jason reported, "But every girl I took there did become affectionate and it makes the night full of potential." Actually the former Belgium restaurant is superb too. Now moved to 23rd Street and 5th Avenue, its appetizer Steamed Mussels is one of the best in town, and the portion is unusually large and satisfying for a seafood lover like me. Don't forget to dip your bread into the wine sauce after all the mussels turn into empty shells. Tout Va Bien, the small French restaurant on midtown west side, offers Cow Head (yes, you will eat the brain) and Veal Kidney. Sitting in there with almost everyone around you cooing in French, you feel you are in a country restaurant in southern France. I heard it's a primary destination for French sailors visiting New York. Also in that neighborhood I found a Afghanistan restaurant. That was when the war just started and most of people still had trouble to locate the country on a world map. It's a very small place with good Shish Kebab on rice (at least I think this was what I ordered). Dinning there is also like watching National Geography channel for an hour, with all the maps and flags and
decorations to study. Worth mentioning is the Ethiopian restaurant Pang Ye took us to (I remember Qianfei said she ate there before too). The cuisine is quite, hmm, unconventional, and, African. I guess the cuisine might have something to do with the scarcity of food on the continent of Africa. They prepare the food in such a way that you have to be really starved to be willing to eat it. No offense...
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very well-written. But would you double space next time?
Don't know how to do double space though... Tried the editor but it doesn't have the option.
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