Chinatown
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Last month, I surprised my mom with a three-day trip to San Francisco for her 70th birthday. My grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from China, passing through San Fran before settling in Minnesota, and my mom was the first in her family to be born in the States. (My grandpa actually came here first and…
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The trek down to Chinatown from the Upper East Side can be tedious, but it’s always fun to scope out the markets and surround myself with foods I grew up around. If you’re a Chinatown newbie, here’s a guide I wrote for Tracy’s New York Life, explaining some of the signature dishes and ingredient’s you’ll…
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Only one thing can coerce me to get out of bed on a Sunday morning, take the Subway downtown, and brave the crowds in Chinatown when the weather is bad and I have a hangover from the night before: dim sum at the Golden Unicorn. For you food novices, dim sum is a Cantonese style…
