NYC
Out here for the weekend to celebrate my brother’s birthday …
Soup Dumplings at Joe’s Shanghai. I was eager to compare them to my faves in SF, Shanghai Dumpling King. I thought the dumplings at Joe’s were generous with the soup, and the crab, pork combination was tasty, but I think the better overall package is in SF at Shanghai Dumpling King. The skin of the dumpling is more supple, and the over all dumpling experience is more tasty and sensuous overall. Joe’s ain’t bad, though.
Then — directly to the new MUJI in Soho, smaller than the one I was in in Hong Kong, but still had lots of good stuff. I bought some more plastic containers for my conducting nerd stuff.
Dinner at Eleven Madison Park. It was amazing and perfect as only a fancy NYC restaurant could be. Though my brother tempted fate when he told the chef, “Boy, you sure like foam on your food.” “There was only foam on two of the dishes!” he protested. He was cool though, and did not come out later with a meat cleaver.
A visit to The New Museum. A really cool building on the lower east side that opened a week ago, but boy was the art BAD. It was an exhibition called UNMONUMENTAL. But it was more than that, it was un-good. Four floors of piled up crap. Stuff like this is hard to judge, but I get so happy looking at Richard Tuttle’s piled up crap and got nothing out of this. I dunno.
Really good kebab on a street corner in Astoria.
And lots of QT with my nephew!
There’s a new sheriff in town!