Xiao Ye Menu FINAL

word aaappp. all items final. names final. whew.... took forever.

STOP LAPPIN'S ANTI-FOOD CART LAW!

http://midtownlunch.com/2010/06/08/city-council-to-introduce-first-anti-food-truck-law/

look, i'm watching the celtics/lakers game. no time to post photos but I just came across this. i'm a day late but if anyone has info on whether the law is going into effect, etc. lemme know! this shit is mad fucked up, but what's even more fucked up is that i'm going to go back to watching the game instead of researching futher LOL. some brothas just got they priorities straight. NBA #1

http://streetvendor.org/

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and yea, seems like its a law favoring brick and mortar restaurants and property owners. its never actually what the politicians say they are protecting that they're protecting. she says this law is about following parking laws. but it really is using parking laws to prey on food cart vendors and support brick and mortar businesses that compete. who knows, developers probably don't want trucks competing with their tenants either! as a brick and mortar owner, i say fuck this shit. if someone wants to park a truck in front of my restaurant, do it. they'll bring me customers, i'll bring them customers, just don't block my sign and we're all good. no one is going to eat the same shit every day, but if there are a bunch of dope businesses together, more people will come more frequently. people that hate are just scurred cause their shit is wack.

its hilarious how people want to pick at little guys like food vendors with bullshit laws wasting our time like this but then they're scurred to fix big oil. FUCKING PUSSIES.

Tiny's is Back!

Tiny's is back!!!! When I opened baohaus, the first two people in the neighborhood to welcome us were Dave from Neighburrito and Dewey from WD-50. Now, Dave has brought back Tiny's and we're all really happy. It wasn't the same without Tiny's on the corner. Me and Schiller's got lonely haha. So, go support them over there! 

Robster Craws and mo!

Been a minute since we put up new food photos. Recently, I've focused less on new dishes and more on just writing out the recipes for everything at Xiao Ye. BUT, after making hainan chicken one night, I used the stock, put some lobsters in it and made this: ROBSTER CRAWS haha.

I boil lobster in chicken stock with some seasoning/herbs and then serve like Hainan Chicken. If you like New England Lobster Bakes, you'll like this a lot. Very fresh taste with the ginger and scallion. We also dredge the lobster through a special seasoning oil I make instead of butter before serving. The natural flavor of the lobster is intact.

I also use the entire lobster by taking the guts, the juices, and making Robster Rice. I have never had anything like it. Not anything like risotto, but perhaps a little like making pasta with uni. The lobster guts have a similar consistency and essence that I really like.

I been gettin silly crunk developing the drink list for Xiao Ye. Our list revolves around our infused liquor recipes. We'll be infusing moutai, shochu, glutinous rice wines, etc. It's been a dope summer so far for new bars so we're gonna keep it goin. I live on Orchard/Canal so just in my area, we've gotten Mezcal and Painkiller recently. Painkiller is the shit. Tiki drinks have always been my favorite and I used to go out to Zombie Hut in BK. There's also that place in Willy-B with sand everywhere and seafood that has tiki drinks. Dope place, I just don't do williamsburgh.

BUT, with painkiller open, I've been going like once a week. I love it. They use fresh fruit and you can really taste the difference. And the playlists there are almost as good as Baohaus haha. For real, they had a southern crunk playlist last weekend bumpin UGK, youngbleed, TI, goodie mobb, etc. Much respect.

I will put the whole drink list on the blog later, but here's some stuff we've done so far

Johnnie Walker Bubble Tea - Johnnie, milk tea, boba

Chinee Shop - jamaican ginger beer, jasmine tea, dark rum, light rum

Moutai infused with Pineapple

June Playlist at Baohaus

We are going to have bi-monthly playlists at Baohaus and Xiao Ye. I made this first one and it's on at baohaus this week. If you wanna get down, hit us with your playlist and we'll check it out! Its gonna be a hot mother fuckin summer. I'm glad that people dropped heat rocks the last week cause I've been upset hearin' that its the summer of Drake. BUT, lookin at his singles and what every one else came with, I think that kid is gonna disappoint. As funny as it is to say, I think Banks set it off a couple months ago with Bimmer, Benz, Bentley, then Joell had Nissan, Honda, Chevy... Fat Joe had HAHA, then Young Jeezy really laid it down with Lose My Mind. I'm at bonchon friday night and boom, T.I. drops a mixtape. COOKIES! But before I even finish listenin to that KAN-mofuckin-YEEZY comes with Power and shut it down. Throw in MIA's lil diss track and I'm ready to hotbox baohaus with Asa this weekend haha.

With the list its a lil old, a lil new, and somethin for kids haha. We're not really tryin to break records and shit so its not meant to have all the new shit... More like playlists for a house party. As you'll see, i like to hear songs back to back from same artist..

Baohaus June - Eddie's List

1) Black Keys - Strange Times

2) Black Moon - I Got Cha Opin

3) Black moon - Shit Iz Real

4) Consequence - The GOod, The Bad, The Ugly

5) Cool Kids - Gold and a Pager

6) Cool Kids - 88

7) Danger Doom - Sofa King

8) Danger Doom - Space Ho's

9) Danger Mouse ft. Jemini - Ghetto Pop Life

10) Gwen Stefani - Luxurious

11) Gucci Mane - Lemonade

12) Kanye - Power

13) Big Boi - Shutterbug

14) Chromeo - Destination Overdrive

15) Chromeo - You're So Gangsta

16) Diplo - Put That Pussy On Me

17) Birdman - Stuntin Like My Daddy

18) Diplomats - Dipset Anthem

19) Diplomats - This is What I Do

20) Gucci Mane ft. Cam'ron - Stupid Wild

21) Banks, Juelz, FABO - Bimmer, Benz or Bentley

22) Fabolous - Brooklyn

23) Fat Joe - Ha Ha

24) Fat Joe - Lean Back 

25) Ghostface - The Champ

26) Ghostface - Tony Sigel

27) Jay-Z - Hello Brooklyn

28) Jay-Z - Success

29) Black Keys - I Got Mine

30) MF Doom - Rhymes Like Dimes

31) Mobb Deep - Drink Away the Pain

32) Nas - Affirmative Action

33) Nas - Street Dreams

34) Joell Ortiz - Brooklyn Ghetto Child

35) Kanye - Diamonds 

26) Lupe - Hip Hop Saved My Life

27) Lupe - Paris, Tokyo

28) MIA ft. Wale - Boyz

29) Dipset - Get Em Girls

30) TI - Big Shit Poppin

31) TI - You Know What it is

32) Jeezy - Crazy World

33) Jeezy - Vacation

34) Jeezy - Lose My Mind

35) R. Kelly - Ignition (for the kids)

Employee of Last Month

POW! and we back a month late. Now i know what its like to miss a period. I forgot to do employee of the month last month, but i'm makin up for it now. Vic came to baohaus from our ad looking for people who were WEB Dubois meets Heavy D and the boys (thanks dice raw). Not since Kate did we get a cover letter like Vic's:

To My Future Employers:

  

  I am a City College student  studying film, who at this moment is slacking off from school "trying to find myself". I am a huge dork, but I have a mean right hook.  Not only do I wish that I could birth Questlove's babies (that man is GENIUS), I wish I had could have the Roots follow me around and just play live music for me all day. I'm Cuban and Jordanian, so all your food is the equivalent of a wet dream. I'm also a mean baker (Purple Rain Shortcakes, with chocolate sauce. Just think about it.) and I dug your take on Twinkies. I plan on hosting my own slacker cooking show. Even though I have mentioned the word 'slacker"  I am hard worker and  terribly reliable, and I'm always on time. Plus, I have experience in food service, so I can handle all the rowdy customers without catching a case. I split my time between Harlem and the Bronx, but i would definitely relocate, if I got this job.

 

Hope to hear from you soon!

 

-Victoria

BOSS! That is how you mother fucking write a cover letter. Victoria, you the employee of last month. Pour some Apple Sidra out fo yoself or we can go get bluies at Apollo.

Chillin out.....

Afghan goo-goo just aint gettin it done these days. I need to chill but the heat got me buggin... Some people go to Church, but I go to Shopsin's... Recently, I've just had a lot of difficulty not responding to people who leave anonymous comments whether its on my blog, on yelp, etc. I don't get it. If you're going to say something, put your name on it. I do!

Kenny gave me some good advice that went something like this: "Go for the pussy, stop messin with the tits." LOL. He's been around a lot longer than me and he always has good advice. I do feel like I got drawn into a lot of sideshow shit like being blocked by an choi, haters on yelp, chairman bao, etc. And, at least for the short term, I'm going to do my best to ignore this shit and focus on my food. For anyone else looking to open a restaurant, I would say just be ready for negative things that you yourself didn't even seek out. The shit just finds you, but its cool. I aint mad. I'm gonna chill out and just have fun cooking. The recipes for xiao ye are all done, gonna cook for my homies before game 1 of the finals tomorrow so I'll have some photos of that.

I think a lot of people have the wrong perception about us. We're all just kids and a lot of the times, we are immature. I wake up, play ball, eat and then head in to check the restaurant. After that, who knows what happens. We don't know how to handle everything that's been going on so we just say what we think and it hasn't always been good for us. I'm 28, Emery's 25, Evan's 22, there isn't a class or book or person who can tell you how to do this nor would we want that. We like to figure this out ourselves, but I think we forget that everything on the internet is there for people to see. We're really just being ourselves writing funny menus, doing goofy promotions, but people see it as some premeditated ploy. I wish people would get to know us and see that we're really just a random family. I mean, I'm an accident baby. The Huangs don't really plan shit. So... for the time being, i'm going to chill and if yall want to help, just remind me of this post haha.

That said... we're goin back to cali




Props to Raf aka The Prince of BK for planning this trip to Cali..... For the record, its not a throwdown. I'm just gonna cook. If you like pork, come see me.