A while back, I visited my mom in North Carolina and went to one of her favorite restaurants, Imperial Koi, for some sushi (my review here). The owner, Peter, agreed to have his sushi chef, Jack, teach me how to make a California Roll so I could have a sushi party. Here’s the sushi chef [...]
On Saturday, my aunt picked us up to meet up with my cousin at a sushi restaurant, Mitsui. Mitsui is a really popular place right now because it was in the papers a little bit ago; the last president, Chen Shui-Bian, was very corrupt and his son used to discuss insider trading operations at Mitsui. [...]
I wish I had more time to do a full update (I will definitely do one once I get back home and sort through pictures from three computers) but for now, here are some things I did in the last couple of days: Wednesday We went to the Taipei 101 area to eat at one [...]
After learning how to make focaccia bread from Carl, we went out for Japanese food near Times Square. When I mentioned that I wanted to eat near Times Square, I could tell Carl was very hesitant (I would be, too), but I reassured him that there are small pockets of Japanese restaurants throughout the city [...]
Last week, my friend, Remy, flew in from Europe to wine and dine his friends from the city. Well, he was here on vacation, but he’s very interested in fine dining and made reservations at many of New York’s best restaurants and invited his friends along for the ride. Luckily, Remy asked me for some [...]
