mongo
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next you're going to tell me you don't have a sabre on hand to deal with the most recalcitrant lids.
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god, you people are weak.
also, none of you know to hold the metal lid of a jar under very hot running water in the kitchen sink just long enough for the metal to expand a little?
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has he published his long-threatened opus on indian food yet?
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or tax the rich a little more and make public transportation free for all.
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but the microwave cooks the fish as it thaws it. don't get in the way of progress, i mean david chang's bank account.
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bombay bistro (in the west village) doesn't deserve a thread of its own so i'm sticking the link to my review of dinner there in may in this newly created catch-all thread. i was in ny/nj for a hit and run trip and for complicated reasons ended up at this place i'd never heard of before for dinner with an old friend. the menu is ye olde curry house classics but the food was not bad. it was packed on a tuesday evening.
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sorry to miss it! my timing was off by just 3.5 weeks.
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does wilfrid know how to drive?
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13 hours ago, Sneakeater said:
What always bothers me about that song is that many commentators insist on hearing a particular line as "the preacher likes the cold", and interpreting it as such, when it so clearly goes, "the preacher lights the coal".
it's actually "the preacher likes nicole".
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On 1/8/2024 at 10:04 PM, Wilfrid said:
Past Lives had a bunch of nominations, won nothing, but it was the one movie last year I really wanted to see, did see, and loved. But it’s the kind of cinema I love.
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.
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meet the new sneak. same as the old sneak.
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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.
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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.
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six, yes*, ten, no.
*not anymore, but once.
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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?
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On 4/16/2024 at 9:03 PM, Evelyn said:
I need to eat with you guys. I am 0 for 2 when dining there. The first meal was mediocre. The second was poor. Both were pre-pandemic.
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.
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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.)
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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.
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maybe the place is "all you can eat"?
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(ori: can you at least bring back the malta/yalta content from the old mouthfuls?)
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you need to turn up the heat on your boiler. that tepid drizzle isn't going to get the job done.