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As several restaurants in Flushing, Queens, one of the largest Chinatowns in New York City, shut down amid the pandemic, Yukun Shaobing quietly opened inside a nondescript mini-mall last September — a seemingly inauspicious start. Still, the cramped food stall of about 100 square feet, with no English-language name or advertising, has become a hit…
Falansai’s seafood curry soup is one of the wonders of the pandemic-restaurant era. The broth begins with peanut milk and a head-filling red curry instead of the usual coconut milk and green curry. It is intensified by lobster stock and mussel broth. The bowl is filled with good, fresh East Coast mussels and squid —…
Hello and welcome to Five Weeknight Dishes, though really my thoughts are with dessert today, chocolate desserts in particular. Sunday is Valentine’s Day, and while I have zero plans to cook an elaborate dinner, and might even order takeout, I will grab this moment to make something obscenely chocolaty. The current contenders: chocolate lava cake,…
Name: Manuela Soto Sosa Age: 30 Hometown: Lausanne, Switzerland Now lives: A one-bedroom loft in a high-rise in Downtown Los Angeles. Claim to fame: Ms. Sosa is a tattoo artist known for her portraits of voluptuous, G-string-clad young women, called Soto Girls, that evoke Japanese anime and gang tattoo culture. Her tattoo work, which graced…
A few times a week, Elizabeth Reninger ambles to a pizza restaurant near her job for lunch. She orders the same thing every time: a cheese slice and fries for $6. For a little adventure, she sprinkles on some Parmesan and red pepper flakes. Before the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country, Ms. Reninger, a…
“It’s great for routine stuff, but when it comes to safety surveillance, it’s all about size,” said Dr. Daniel Salmon, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at Johns Hopkins University, and a former federal vaccine official. “The bigger it is, the faster you get an answer. Eventually the VSD will get a really good…
Humor and perspective were similarly useful below the water. “We’d say things like, ‘Life sucks, but at least the ocean’s not coming into the submarine,’ and we’d laugh,” he said. “Sailors have dark humor, but it helped.” One informal rule to maintain comity on the sub was to “assume good intent,” Cmdr. Marquet said. “If…
As adults at high risk for Covid-19 line up to be immunized against the coronavirus, many parents want to know: When will my child get a vaccine? The short answer: Not before late summer. Pfizer and Moderna have enrolled children 12 and older in clinical trials of their vaccines and hope to have results by…
A crowd of strangers Shmoney dancing to Bobby Shmurda in McCarren Park; the Green Lady chuckling on a street corner; a dead rat being blessed with Hennessy as it rests among flowers, bodega candles and Newport cigarettes. There are countless symbols that capture the spirit of New York City, and over the last seven years,…