For me, the only Icee is the one that Kon Ping Young — Mr. Young to me — used to make at the Crack Seed Store in Honolulu, where I grew up, in what people in Hawaii call small-kid time. The base was always strawberry, the rosy slush whorling down into the cup. Halfway through,…
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Ashley Jaffe, an owner of Blank Slate Coffee + Kitchen in Manhattan, started getting confusing messages from friends and customers in 2021. Every few weeks, a new one would arrive, congratulating her on opening another location of her cafe. “I was like, ‘We didn’t, what are you talking about?’” Ms. Jaffe recalled. She and her…
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It may have been no pepperoni with extra cheese, but it still caught the eye of archaeologists working on the ruins of Pompeii, and not because they were hungry. The researchers were excavating the site earlier this year when they ran across a fresco depicting a silver platter laden with wine, fruit — and a…
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There are a few summer inevitabilities: A heat wave that will test the limits of your window air-conditioner. Sweating on a subway platform. One of your favorite bands or musicians playing a show at Forest Hills Stadium. Concerts are a boon for restaurants in that tree-lined section of Queens, and, if you’re not a local,…
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Murray Hill’s signature catchphrase is a percussive “Showbiz!” When he began performing as a drag king in New York during the mid-90s on stages he recalls being “the size of a postage stamp,” shouting “Showbiz!” called out the irony of his Vegas showman persona against the gritty and grimy environs of underground drag clubs. Today,…
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The new Superiority Burger on Avenue A is about 10 times larger than the original, a 240-square-foot below-grade box on East Ninth Street that was outgrown “on the first day,” according to Brooks Headley, the chef and an owner. The second location finally has room for tables, chairs and other stuff like that. It has…
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Silent Empathy You were a businessman seated next to me on a flight. I was a 19-year-old who had gotten an abortion three days before. I asked a flight attendant for a blanket but she said they didn’t have any. As my lip trembled from the news, you took off your suit jacket and draped…
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SoFun Kitchen Chao Wang, whose sleek East Village restaurant, Hunan Slurp, was awarded two stars nearly five years ago by Pete Wells in The New York Times, has opened a noodle-centric sibling in Queens. The name is derived from “suo fen,” meaning slurp noodles, so slurping is the sport on display with mifen rice noodles…
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