Entries Tagged as 'iced coffee'

Mekong River on 6th

March 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Mekong River on 6th
Mekong River, Austin, TX

After the Google party we decided to get some dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant nearby, Mekong River. (Check out this funny note that Matt photographed in their entryway.) Mekong River turned out to be the NSFW menu jackpot – Skirts on Fire, Tongue Toaster, Spicy Landlord, Spicy Boss, Double Sensation, Secretary Holiday, Saigon Temptation, Saigon Mistress, Rated-R Shrimp, Ambassador’s Honey. Honestly. These were all names of entrees on Mekong River’s menu. Not even making this up!

I had a chicken dish that I don’t see on the online menu but that I believe was called Aftermoon Chicken. It was basically a rice and chicken dish with a sweet honey sauce. We had Tiger and Singha beers. At the end of dinner I also had a Vietnamese iced coffee, which is something I used to get in New York’s Chinatown all the time and haven’t had since then. It was a nice treat.

Tiger Beer, Singha Beer
Tiger & Singha at Mekong River, Austin, TX

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Relaxing

September 9th, 2005 · 2 Comments

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Cafe View :: West Village, Manhattan

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West Village, Manhattan

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West Village, Manhattan

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Rachelle & Mark :: West Village, Manhattan

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Jessica & Rachelle :: West Village, Manhattan

After running around downtown all day I was exhausted so I went to a little cafe on Houston and Thompson to sip some iced coffee and nibble some tiramisu. .. to let NYC pass me by instead of trying to wade through it. After a while my iced coffee became wine and Jeannette, Jessica and Mark met up with me for a few more drinks. Then Jess and I met up with Jen for some dinner at Sushi Samba.

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Run Around Saturday

November 8th, 2003 · 7 Comments

Jessica, Rachelle, Eleanor
Jessica, Rachelle, Eleanor, Pho Bang, Chinatown, Manhattan

Last night I went to a party in Park Slope and didn’t get home until 9:00 this morning. (Long story). I still somehow managed to meet up at Ping’s for dim sum at 11:30 a.m. Afterwards we met Sarah at Pho Bang where we got some Vietnamese iced coffee and Sarah got Banh Mi (Vietnamese sandwiches).

Jessica in the Cadillac SRX
Jessica, Brooklyn

Sarah reviews cars for her job and this week has a Cadillac SRX so she volunteered to drive us out to Prospect Heights in Brooklyn where I was scheduled to look at an apartment. I’m so out of touch with cars these days and for the most part Sarah always has high-end cars so I’m always impressed with the features on them. This one had a theater system in the second row and power-folding third row seating. We were watching Scratch – that’s Mix Master Mike with Jess.

Mirror Project
Eleanor, Rachelle, Yvan, Jeannette, Financial District, Manhattan

Jess walked down to Park Slope to visit with some other friends while the rest of us rushed back down to Lower Manhattan. Sarah wasn’t feeling well, so she just dropped us off. Heather Champ is in town and was having a group photo taken for the 20,000 photo submission to the Mirror Project site. Unfortunately, we hit a ton of traffic in Brooklyn and got there late. We took our own photo anyway. Sucks.. I really wanted to say “hello” to Heather. Oh well.. maybe she’ll be at SXSW again next year.

Numbers on Water St & John St.
Numbers on the Corner of Water St. & John St., Financial District, Manhattan

Jeannette & Yvan & Eleanor caught the bus uptown and I walked to the subway. I was starting to crash and when I passed by these numbers on the corner of Water St. & John St. it really confused me. Does anyone know what they are? I thought it was a calendar, but there are too many numbers.. and the number 5 was lit up.

Broadway/Nassau Subway
Broadway/Nassau Subway Station, Financial District, Manhattan

….so tired…

- Yvan’s Mirror Project Photo
- My Mirror Project Photo
- Eleanor’s Mirror Project Photo

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Brooklyn’s Chinatown

September 14th, 2003 · 26 Comments

Butcher in Chinatown, Brooklyn
Butcher, Chinatown, Brooklyn


Butcher, Chinatown, Brooklyn

Toothpaste, Chinatown, Brooklyn
Toothpaste, Chinatown, Brooklyn

Crabs in Brooklyn's Chinatown
Having Trouble Keeping His Crabs in the Basket, Chinatown, Brooklyn

Sarah‘s latest assignment took us to Chinatown in Brooklyn to sample several Banh Mi (vietnamese sandwiches) from 2 different restaurants there. The sandwiches are overstuffed, toasted french baguettes with mayonnaise, pate, meat, pickled vegetables and cilantro. They were pretty good but I let everyone else eat most of them. I ordered a vietnamese iced coffee at the first restaurant we went to. Vietnamese iced coffee is different from regular coffee in that it’s really strong and is mixed with sweetened condensed milk. I liked the coffee I got today but I think that it’s better from the place we sometimes go to on Baxter street in Manhattan’s Chinatown.

At the second restaurant we went to they had avocado shakes. We were all intrigued by what these would taste like so we ordered one to share. I really don’t like avocado much, which almost got me kicked out of Southern California because I rarely ate guacamole, but I wanted to taste it anyway. Surprisingly, it was really good. Very sweet and it barely tasted like avocado at all. I was reminded that avocado actually is a fruit, even though it doesn’t taste like one in guacamole. The shake was so rich and creamy that I would never be able to drink the entire thing. As it was, the four of us couldn’t even finish one.

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