I love Hudson River Park on the west side of Manhattan, but the thing is.. you sit around there in the sun and stare at Jersey. The cool thing about Pier A Park in Hoboken, which is very similar to Hudson River Park, is that you get to take in a view of Manhattan.
After running around for a few days, I met up with Jeannette, Eleanor, and Dan for dim sum in Chinatown then spent the day with Julie and Jess just laying around Pier A Park and talking and reading and relaxing. It was a nice break.
Tags:chinatown·dan·dim sum·eleanor·fountain·hoboken·jeannette·jessica·julie·New York·pier·pier a park
On Wednesday night my flight was delayed by like 2 or 2 1/2 hours so we didn’t really do anything.. sat at Jess’s house and caught up and talked til the wee hours. The next morning I got up and went to work with her just to say “hi” to some of my coworkers and to meet some new ones who started in the New York office since I transferred to the Chicago one.
After that I headed down to Chinatown, which is not far from the Tribeca office, to get myself some high-quality Gucci and Prada. I also got a few pieces of pottery and dishes at Great Wall City, which is in the old Pearl River building and is exactly the same as the old Pearl River except that I think the prices are a little more expensive.
Tags:chinatown·crab·excellent dumpling house·fish·great wall city·jessica·New York·pearl river·seafood·Shopping·tmp·tribeca
Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Part 1: Sink :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Part 2: Sank :: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, Ping Tom Memorial Park, Chinatown, Chicago
Last night Margaret, Sam & I went and saw Spectacle ’04: Sink. Sank. Sunk…, a Redmoon Theater production, in Ping Tom Memorial Park in Chinatown.
It’s hard to describe the show we saw:
Part 1: Sink. is from 6:00 – 6:45: The characters in the spectacle are scattered throughout the park and you can interact with them.
Part 2: Sank. is from about 6:45 – 7:45: There’s a concrete narrative and the characters all collect in a central playing space.
Part 3: Sunk…: The finale is a progression down to the river where the ending takes place.
Whether you’re a little kid or an intellectual theater aficionado you’ll like this performance, so just go. It’s still playing tonight and tomorrow night. And it’s free – you can’t beat that.
Passing up authentic Asian fare in Chinatown, we went and got some Americanized Pan-Asian at Penny’s in Wicker Park afterwards. It was really good. And cheap. Afterwards, the old favorite, Ginbucks.
Low-quality video clips:
» The band in Part 1 (.mov, 588k)
» Hobo Limerick (.mov, 588k)
» I Love Trains (.mov, 452k) The entire performance stopped and they did this dance almost every time an El or Metra train went by the park.
Tags:Chicago·chinatown·ginbucks·margaret·pennys·ping tom memorial park·redmoon·sam·sink sank sunk·Theater·wicker park
Dining Room at Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan
Eleanor & Jeannette, Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan
Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan
Tien gives dessert the thumbs up, Jing Fong, Chinatown, Manhattan
Here’s a funny movie clip of Tien and Jeannette at dim sum:
- Caw! Caw! (.mov, 788k)
After dim sum, walking to the parade route, Chinatown, Manhattan
With the temperature outside at 8 degrees, we opted for Vietnamese coffee instead of ice cream!
Subway, Chinatown, Manhattan
Finally we got to the parade route where we met up with Jen and Jake. Everyone there was setting off confetti bombs.
Chinatown, Manhattan
Senator Charles Schumer began the parade.
Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan
Drummer in a band, Chinatown, Manhattan
Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan
Tien takes a photo of the monkey king.
Yvan trying to keep warm.
On a sidestreet, Tien points out a Chinese character that says “Mao”.
As we start to make our way to the subway to go home, no one seems to care if we walk right beside the parade. This is where we get the best photographs.
Beauty Queens?
Yellow Dragon, Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan
Yellow Dragon, Chinese New Year Parade, Chinatown, Manhattan
Little boy dressed as a dragon.
Confetti on the stairs.
A store we passed on the way to the subway.
Chinatown, Manhattan
Going home on the F Train.
After dim sum at Jing Fong, Eleanor, Jeannette, Yvan, Tien, Shannan, Jessica and I met up with Jen and Jake on the parade route to watch the Chinese New Year festivities. What a great way to celebrate my chinese-ness, or lack there of! My goal of the day was to see some dragon dancers, which I’d never seen before. Luckily, there were several of them. Unluckily, the temperature outside was about eight degrees. After an hour standing outside I could no longer feel my extremities and my camera was whacked out so we left.
More:
- 2004/4702 Chinese New Year Parade, by Tien
- Chinese New Year, by Eleanor
- Jessica’s Ofoto Album
- Chinatown Parade, by Jake
- Chinatown Parade Photo Gallery, by Jake
- Chinese New Year Parade, by Jen for Gothamist
Tags:charles schumer·chinatown·chinatown ice cream factory·chinese new year·dim sum·dragon·eleanor·f train·jake·jeannette·jen·jessica·jing fong·monkey king·New York·parade·shannan·subway·tien·yvan
Vivian & Yvan Trying to Order, Oriental Garden, Chinatown, Manhattan
A trip to the aquarium? No! These were just a few of the lovely creatures waiting in the tanks at Oriental Garden to become our dinner. Yvan, Jeannette, Sarah, Tien, Michael, Vivian, Yim and I were out celebrating the Chinese New Year yesterday. $198 may seem like a lot of money for dinner but not when you’re getting almost 10 courses of seafood for 8 people. We had:
- Full-bodied, freshly steamed shrimp (gnarly too look at, but very tasty)
- Seafood soup (didn’t care for this one too much – Tien ate mine!)
- Sauteed clams
- Mixed seafood platter (really good scallops & conch on here)
- A whole fish in a brown sauce (very tender and yummy)
- Lobster (delish but hard to eat with chop sticks!)
- Sauteed mussels
- Sauteed oysters (may be the first time I ate an oyster – I didn’t really like it)
- Seafood fried rice (big chunks of scallops, very tasty)
- Lo Mein (I was told it’s tradition to order this for longevity)
- Sauteed Pea Pods (I think that’s what it was – really sweet and tender)
- Oranges for dessert, of course
After adding Tsing Tao and 3 bottles of sake, the bill wasn’t all that reasonable any more, but still the dinner was so delicious and so much fun it was well worth the price.
Note: In a restaurant like this, with a menu where the prices are the only thing not in Chinese, it helps to have someone there who speaks Chinese. After 20 minutes of back & forth with the waiters, Yim finally arrived and within seconds took over the situation and ordered our drinks and food. Thank God for Yim or we’d still be there bickering with the waiter!
More Information:
- Chinese New Year, Take II, by Tien
Tags:Animals·chinatown·chinese new year·clam·crab·jeannette·lobster·michael·mussels·New York·oriental garden·oyster·sake·sarah·seafood·shrimp·tien·tsing tao·vivian·yim·yvan