140 years of history, Brooklyn's oldest Pub Reopen

The oldest bar in Brooklyn had to trace back to the 1890s. And now, you can step in this pub to feel that 140 years of history.This pub is re-opened with a name of  "Goldenrob" after an bankruptcy of previous owner .  If you have a chance to go there, do not miss the signiture beer “Golden Pilsner", for $7 a glass!

Goldenbro was formerly PJHanley's for the past hundred years, although the name of the bar has changed and changed, the decor still retains the 19th-century style: retro print walls, marble bar counter,  small garden in Italian style. the wine list selection is also a continuation of 140 years of tradition, most of them are from the United States and even the New York local beer.

As I mentioned earlier, you must tray the Golden Pilsner if you are a fan of Pilsner. Even you doesn't know much about Pilsner, you should still give it a try since this Golden Pilsner is a special brew from the Brooklyn Brewery just for the bar. Furthermore, the bar also offers a range of food with beer, as well as specially prepared for vegetarians German pretzels, burgers, bean tempura and more.

More with Hokkaido Fair

Other than ramen, Hokkaido Fair of Mitsuwa Market has a lot more to offer for foodies!

If you like curry, all kinds of curries, you should try "Rakkyo" for their "Soup Curry". It is the first time that Rakkyo participate in the Hokkaido Fair, it is a mega popular shop in sapporo. The name Rakkyo is Rakkyo are sweet pickled scallions that are served alongside Japanese curry. Rakkyo brings a sweet, crunchy bite that augment the spicy and salty flavors of curry.

If you are seafood lover, you can spend a little bit more for the premium Bento Boxes with King Crab, Sea Urchin and Salmon roe.Don't forget the "Ika Meshi" of "Abe Shoten", that is squid stuffed with sweet rice and simmered in secret sauce. 

Attention Ramen Lover, Mitsuwa's Hokkaido Fair is back!

Mitsuwa's Hokkaido Fair brings fresh food and speciality cuisine from Northern region of Japan to people in a one-stop service. In the fair, you can find "Ezofukuro", Ezofukuro Sapporo Miso ramen is a uniquely Japanese ramen which was developed in Hokkido. 

                                                                                           

       

Ezofukuro pays great attention to Miso and its heat level. It features a broth that uses large amount of miso blended with fatty chicken broth to create a thick, slightly sweet and nutty with a slightly salty, rovust flavor.  Ezofukuro builds on this base to create three flavors og: Spicy Aka(red), Kuro(block) and Miso Ramen as well. The noodle embraced by the broth is perfectly cooked with good thickness and a slight curl. No wonder Sapporo is famous for its ramens, Ezofokuro won't disappointed you. But noted, Ezofukuro is offering limited quantity, The red ramen will be served on Thurs 9-26 and Sat 9-28 The black ramen on Fri 9-27 and Sun 9-29. The miso ramen will be available all four days.

Address: 595 River Rd. Edgewater, NJ 07020

National Day of Alpaca

What's Alpaca?

Alpaca is this super duper cute animal that belong to the camel family. And this weekend 9.28-9.29 is the national alpaca farm days, find your local alpaca farm and get close to these cute and friendly animals!

Visit the official site of National alpaca farm days site to get more information.

The Amazing Maize Maze

Say goodbye to summer, and prepare yourself for Fall by going to the New York  Fall THE AMAZING MAIZE MAZE  festival in cornfield maze.

During September-October period, Queens County Farm cornfield will transform into a large farm park, open to the public every weekend to New York (10/8 Monday this day there are also open).

This is a good time to embrace nature, feel the breeze of fall and lost in cornfield maze.

Want to get lost  under the Starlight, the maze also offer night session on both 2012/10/06 and 2012/10/13 until 21:00 pm.

Location: Queens County Farm Museum, 7350 Little Neck Pkwy, Glen Oaks, NY 11004

Shh, Secret Menu in Prestigious Thai Restaurant

Wondee Siam in Hell's Kitchen is one of the most prestigious Thai food in Manhattan. not long ago, Won Dee Siamll was opened a few blocks away from Won Dee Siam since the original one was so busy. This restaurant has two menus, one for regular diners, and one for people who know and love authentic Thai food.

Mieng Ka Na is a common snack streets of Bangkok, which is usually wrapped in betel leaves inside. In Won Dee Siam, you can find Mieng Ka Na in their secret recipes inside , but here, they use broccoli instead of betel leaf to wrap Mieng Ka Na with floss, peanuts, dried garlic, soy sauce, lime cooked with salt and pepper. When eating with raw broccoli leaves will wrap these things, the taste is mixing with a little salty, a little spicy, a little sour, a little bit sweet.

Thai sausage salad is also a good choice. Slightly tossed medium fat fried sausage with a slice cucumber, coriander, Thai salad with sour sauce mixed, the resulting taste is naturally hot and sour taste.

Cup cake of New York: Magnolia Bakery

In new york, it is not rare to see people lining up just for a little cupcake. Cup cake is a taste of home for many New Yorkers. Magnolia bakery is one of the original cupcake places, since the cupcake craze started.

Sex and the City has  mentioned Magnolia Bakery, Carrie was telling Miranda that she had a new love affair while eating Magnolia's pink frosting cupcake. From then on, the West Village Magnolia Bakery is always filled with Sex and the City fans.

Magnolia opened in 1996, now it has six branches, including one in New York South Street Seaport. The bakery sells ice cream sandwiches in the summer. Cupcakes, of course, is not to be missed, colorful frosting lure people's appetites. In addition, Oreos favored, Snickers flavored cakes and tarts, banana pudding will bring you a different sweet surprise.

Free Museums in New York City

One of the best way to get around in New York City is to visit museums, NYC owns world-class museums as well as boutique galleries that offer free or discount admissions in certain days. Travel smart and see a list of free museums/galleries below.

Everyday

Forbes Magazine Galleries

212-206-5548

62 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street)

Free admission

Museum at Fashion Institute of Technolgy

212-217-5970

Seventh Avenue at 27 Street

free admission

National Museum of the American Indian

212-668-6624

1 Bowling Green, George Gustave Heye Center

Free admission

Goethe Institute

212-439-8700

1014 Fifth Ave

Free admission

Sony Wonder Technology Lab Sony Wonder

212-833-5414

Sony Plaza Public Arcade at 56th Street and Madison Avenue

Tuesday:

Brooklyn Botanical Garden

718-623-7200

1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

Free admission

Taste of Freshness: 15 East

A visit to 15 East, a top 100 restaurants in America and a newly Michelin 1 star Japanese restaurant. It is a feast of freshness from the sea. The $120 tasting menu include sushi and sashimi Omakesa, which consists with the fresh of the day selected from the sushi chief. and appetizer include pink, crystal like roe and creative desert.

I strongly recommend everyone to try their Uni (Sea Urchin) freight, with $36, you can taste 2 American Uni (from California and Maine) and two Japanese Uni (from southern and northern region). You will be amazed by how different these Uni taste in texture and favors.

By the way, try to get a sushi bar seat if you can, sitting there watching sushi chief to handle the delicate sea treasures is a feast to the eyes too.

Referred to the famous New York restaurant, few people will miss Nobu . Nobu is a  of creative Japanese cuisine. This restaurant was ranked the top fifth restaurant in New York City by Zagat survey in 2003.
Nobu generally asks for at least four weeks in advance for researvation. if you are a spontenous foodie or have no time, Nobu Next Door is a good choice to have a similar Nobu experience. Nobu Next Door, obviously means next door of Nubo, the restaurant is designed to satisfies those spontaneous diners who need the Nobu fix, but didn’t plan ahead, by offering first come, first serve table seating between the hours of 7:00pm and 9:00pm. the price is said to be cheaper with a causal elegant atmosphere. 

Nobu Next Door also offers Saturday and Sunday brunch.

Top Japanese restaurants in New York City (part 1)

In New York City, you can find variety of Japanese Cuisine, Ramen house, bento lunch, Yakitoui spot and sushi, you name it! you can find it in New York. Today, I am introducing Hastuhana restaurant, which holding a reputation as one of the best Japanese restaurants in the city, it definitely set the bar very high for its competitors. 

This restaurant is staffed almost exclusively by native Japanese; their strong accents and mannerisms clearly convey they are expatriates. This alone indicated to me this was a quality establishment. 

If you are visiting the restaurant with budget, you should try the signature "Box of Dream", it is a   nine miniature bowls arranged in a lacquer box. each bowl contains one kind of raw or cooked fish fillets and sushi rice.  The fish are so fresh and just melt in your mouth. Toro and Uni is a must try items if you like them. 

Seneca Lake Winery: Hidden Gem of New York State

When we talk about wines in the United States, most people would first think of Napa,CA. But New Yorkers don't need to fly over to west coast to get a sip of high quality wine, a couple hours of drive could take you the award-wining wineries in Seneca Lake. 

The Seneca Lake Wine Trail is  one of the largest wineries area in the eastern USA. With over 30 member wineries the Trail boasts a diverse variety of wines from classic vinifera to hardy native grapes or  premium blend. In my point of view, Seneca Wineries have high quality Riesling wine and bubbly wines. On top of the wine itself, the view of finger lake from most of the winery are simply breathtaking.

3.1 Phillip Lim for Target

3.1 Phillip Lim for target is finally open to public, people went crazy for the cheaper version of this high-end designer label, especially for the hand bags. They woke up early and wait in line for clothing and bags, but it is until the bags roll out that people snatched up. creating scramble of shouting and flailing arms until the rack clean.

From Yogurt to Culture

I love Frozen Yogurt, and I am always looking for boutique yogurt places other than franchise brands.

 I found Culture: An American Yogurt Company by accident, they manufacture fresh and frozen yogurt in house, using fresh local milk and other more.  There are a lot of favors to choose from: Mango Ginger, Coconet raspberry, Pina Colada and Strawberry Balsamic etc.  with a wide ranges of topping choices. 

It is small, friendly and good taste!

The Art of the Score at NY Philharmonic

If you are a fan Alfred Hitchcock’s film, you can’t miss the ‘ The Art of the Score’ at New York Philharmonic. 

The concert is to celebrate the reward-winning scores to classic films, hosted by Sam Waterson, you will be able to enjoy live performance of scores of films like “2001: A Space Odyssey”, “Vertigo”, “North by Northwest” and “To Catch a Thief” .

Time： September 18, 2013

Where:　10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023

Hermes Sample Sale

One of the high points living in NYC is SAMPLE SALE. Even Hermes is having a sample sale！

This sample sale is known as “The Mother of New York Sample Sale”, but the reputation of this sample sale was not good for last 4 years.  So we don’t know what to expect for this year. 

Here is a report and pictures from last year’s report, courtesy of Weluvny.com

Time: September 18th – September 21th 9am-6pm

Location: Soiffer Haskin, 317 W. 33rd St. 

My All Time Favor: Eleven Madison Park

New York City is a paradise for food lover, you can find any cuisines around the world here. 66 restaurants have been rewarded Michelin Star.

Eleven Madison Park is one of the three Michelin star restaurants in New York City, and it is all time favorite. Although it cost a lot to dine here, but the food and experience worth every penny of it. 

We were invited to have a kitchen tour, the chief was making us an 1920 style cocktail using nitrogen. the advantage of using nitrogen for cocktail is that nitrogen is able to froze the liquor to the desired temperature without diluting the  drink.