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god, i thought this movie was utter shit. and boring shit, which is the worst kind. the acclaim it's gotten in so many quarters (not least from wilfrid) completely mystifies me.

meet the new sneak. same as the old sneak.

sneak, i am so sorry to hear your news. maison rustique: i hope your sister pulls through and that your husband's doctors find a med combo that works for now.

i had appreciable side effects for the first time in december, when i took a booster 3 weeks before leaving for my off-campus program. i put it down to the fact that it was my first moderna shot, after god-knows-how-many pfizers. also had the nastiest site soreness across all the shots. thing i will soon be annoyed about: side effects of my second shingles vaccine. it is due. the first was innocuous. i'm told the second is usually much worse.

i ask because at our lunch at indian accent in delhi in march, a card listing the group's restaurants that came with the check included a koloman in new york. what are the odds there are two? you can see said card in the last pic in the slideshow of my review.

this restaurant is also from the indian accent group, right?

six, yes*, ten, no. *not anymore, but once.

not this summer but the next, we might be back in seoul for a week for some planning for the next iteration of my off-campus program (5 weeks in bombay, 5 weeks in seoul, every other year) and if so, we would like to add on some time in tokyo/japan. with that in mind i've begun to look idly at potential places to stay and very quickly came to the realization that i have no idea about the tourist geography of tokyo. those of you who have been or are very familiar with the city: are there neighbourhoods or parts of the metro i should be looking at more than others if the budget is not limitless? is airbnb a decent option in tokyo or would we be better off hotel'ing?

at zuni? we are in san francisco for three nights in mid-june. two dinners will likely be at copra and state bird provisions. was considering zuni for the third but open to other suggestions: doesn't need to be fancy; indeed, will be great if relatively cheap. probably dim sum for one lunch; maybe sushi for another. recommendations for non-cart dim sum and non-bromakase sushi spots very welcome.

so, as some of you know, we spent five weeks in bombay this winter, followed by five weeks in seoul. all my bombay reports have gone up on my blog (i'll start a thread for them at some point) but the seoul reports are still in progress. we ate one meal out on most days. almost all of our eating out was towards the casual end of the spectrum. but we did also eat at three places that currently sport michelin stars. i'll kick this thread off with a link to the first of those that we ate at--and the only one of the three i've yet reported on--as i think that's what's most likely to be of interest to people her: mingles. they currently have two michelin stars and were recently the highest ranked korean restaurant in the stupid "asia's 50 best restaurants" list. i'm guessing this means the price--already high--will go up even more by the time we get to seoul next. anyway, here's my detailed report on our lunch, which we thought was really rather excellent. how this approach to high-end korean cuisine compares to the exemplars in new york, i have no idea. maybe those of you who have eaten at those places can provide points of comparison to the meal i describe. (and, of course, this meal was quite a bit cheaper than eating at the high-end korean places in new york.)

i'm also a bit confused because the article seems premised on the novelty of the place and its food, but after reading it i have no idea what that novelty comprises.

maybe the place is "all you can eat"?

(ori: can you at least bring back the malta/yalta content from the old mouthfuls?)

and let's not even talk about the coverage in the maltese press, which is as hard to swallow as their cuisine.

though, you know, mt. everest isn't as big relative to its surrounding terrain as mt. kilimanjaro is relative to its surrounding terrain.

semma at #7, foxface at #81: this does not match our experience of the two restaurants on back-to-back nights last october, but let's face it, all rankings are silly*. *except mine.

go to bastible, mister s or fish shop. you can also look at my dublin reviews from this summer. give up all hope of good food when in northern ireland but in all other ways i far preferred belfast to dublin.

yes, certainly not a doddle when stir-frying several large head-on prawns together.

yes, but to be fair semma has a michelin star and foxface does not (yet).

now you can finally get the goods on this jumped-up diner peddling overpriced scampi.

well, we received 6 pieces of shrimp so i don't know what the fuss is all about.

the coveted my annoying opinions review will be dropping next week as well.

(i don't actually want to hear from hannah gadsby.)

i'd like to hear from hannah gadsby.

how dare he leave foxface natural off his list?!! the bounder.