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This is a red velvet cupcake topped with apple chips from Cupcake Stop at The Vendy Awards last weekend at the Queens Museum of Art.

The annual Vendy Awards is an intense
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8:07 am | Tags: Food Trucks, New York, Queens
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Who doesn’t love a hot dog at a ball game in the summer? The new Mets Stadium, Citifield, has some seriously good eats. Even better when you can sit at Modell’s Clubhouse right on the
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9:52 am | Tags: Queens
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Hey everyone, sorry it’s been so long since I last posted. Here’s my fridge door, replete with post-its, film schedules, receipts, etc.

Our fridge isn’t as impressively stocked as Ricky’s from last week (also
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12:09 am | Tags: Eat In, Queens, Quick Cooking
Posted in Fridgin Out | 4 Comments »

Normally our fridge is not this neat or organized, or this clean. We left the country for a month and cleaned our fridge out before we left. So basically we’re starting from scratch again.

Let’s start
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10:46 pm | Tags: Queens
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Preface: Umamiventure #13: Flushing Food Circuit, Pt. IUmamiventure #13: Flushing Food Circuit, Pt. II

GOLDEN MALL41-28 Main StreetQueens, NY

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11:18 am | Tags: Chinese, Flushing Food Circuit, New York, Queens
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Preface: Umamiventure #13: Flushing Food Circuit, Pt. I

DUMPLING TIMEZhu Ji Guo Tie40-52 Main Street (Entrance on 41st Avenue)T: 718.358.6265YAMAHOMOThey tasted good, and damn cheap. 8 huge dumplings for $2.50 were
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6:43 am | Tags: Chinese, Flushing Food Circuit, New York, Queens, street food
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I’m back!!! I have been terribly UM delinquent- it’s been totally crazy over here in the last two weeks, what with trying to finish up stuff at work (impossible) and packing up 6 years of my NYC life into little cardboard boxes (unfathomable).

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2:30 pm | Tags: Chinese, Flushing Food Circuit, New York, Queens
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Went to the US Open on Friday- it was so neat! It’s a NY event that I’ve been wanting to do for a long time, so at the 11th hour, I snagged 2 day tickets from a coworker for
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5:24 am | Tags: New York, Queens
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Despite the rainy, chilly weather, quite a few people came out for our monthly food field trip, this time to the infamous Czech beer hall, Bohemian, in Astoria, Queens. Such troopers! On top of the miserable weather, I think
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4:14 am | Tags: beer, Drink, New York, Queens
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Went to Elias Corner for Fish the other night- a reputable Greek seafood joint in Queens that Aya wrote about a few months back. It was awesome!

Aside from the soft, char-grilled octopus, the gooey garlic musselfest, and the plethora of grilled fishes we ordered (red snapper, salmon, the kickass monkfish), my favorite part of the meal was
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8:56 am | Tags: dessert, Eat In, Eat Out, Greek, New York, Queens, Seafood, UM Redux
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