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Pat drinkin a Milk Sky Walker .... alcoholic milk tea w/ homemade soy milk!

MMmmm, drankin the Not Guilty - OJ, Soy Milk, and Vodka... tastes like a creamsicle, rides dirty like OJ haha

Photos from Molly Yeh!

Check out Molly's Blog! She's cool.... even though she's only half-chinese. As I told her... nobody's perfect haha. Her blog always cracks me up. Really interesting approach to writing. She's like the Lil Wayne of food bloggers with her stream of consciousness steez. u will rike.

Concubine Cucumbers above

Poontang Potstickers

Tofu Bricks

Hainan Chicken and Chicken Rice

Taiwan Most Famous Pork on Rice

Golden Taste Balls

SUNDAY OPEN TO PUBLIC

Party, party, party, lets all get wasted .... and eat Taiwanese food. THIS Sunday, i.e. later today. Starting at 6pm we will be open to the public. No reservations, first come first served. 6 Course Tasting Menu, $45/person.

1) Concubine Cucumbers - haus pickled cucumbers

2) Poontang Potstickers or Tofu Bricks

3) Choice of Lotus Leaf Fried Rice (vegetarian) or Taiwan Most Famous Pork on Rice

4) Steamed Cabbage with haus lardo and scallions (veggie option available w/o lardo)

5) Homemade Taiwanese Bacon or Hainan Chicken and Rice or Tarofongo (veggie option)

6) Fried Sweet Potato Balls

WE OPEN

Thanks to all the friends and fam that came to support this weekend! Dinners were crazy and after hours got really stupid haha. One shawty tried to jump over the bar and steal a bottle of henn. Shit got crunk in the walk-in. BOdiEs, bodies, bodies on the floor.

Above is the Taiwanese potstickers and pickled cucumbers (I stole this photo from @jenny8lee). The potstickers in Taiwan, you serve em upside down to show off. If you suck, you serve em right side up and hide the fact that you burnt your dumplings LOL. We also do them open ended like on the Island. Cucumbers we pickle in house. People bugged over them.

Lot of friends came to support but I got no photos!!! If you got photos of the opening nights, hit me! But Hyun got a few, here is Tobias from Four Stroke Jeans stuffing his face across from Maxwell of Public School. We all go out to dinner every Thursday so this was dinner for the week!

Mo photos from @jenny8lee , this is the fried tofu dish we served! Fresh tofu made daily and fried to order.

A lot of dudes were checking out these "stools". Pretty dope right? lol @mikeyfresh1 WAT AAP!

 I spent half the night talkin to Serita and Elena Bergeron bout Chris Paul, Bout it Bout it, Paid in Full, Killa Season and Black Spring Break.

Cat and Sue, before Sue tried to steal all our henrock haha

Dildo Fire

Everyone is ok! That's the good news. Fire on the second floor apartment above baohaus today. Everything's fine, but kinda nuts. Best part was when things got thrown out of the apt and a fucking dildo was in the pile. In a LES fire, leave the gun, bring the dildos. (photos by Ben Fractenberg)

a-wah and gentrification

Congrats to A-Wah on their NYTimes mention! The homegirl, Victoria (CCC), took me and Emery to lunch here 2 months ago. She's always up on that division/east broadway/catherine street chino scene under the bridge haha. Emery and I aint Cantonese so we don't hear as much about the new joints popping up down there (OMG we aint all the same? lol) but Victoria and Steve's Grandma let us know what's good.

Randomly, Steve's grandma kept trying to explain to Steve this restaurant he should go to. She kept saying "hot rice with cover, hot rice with cover!" haha. I liked the joint the first time I went with Victoria. But we didn't pour their soy sauce all over the rice. I was like, that's some gringo shit to order a bowl of white rice and eat it with soy sauce.

But I went back last night wit Steve and the owner told me to use the soy sauce. BONG. Mind mofuckin blown. Get the red sausage and preserved duck rice casserole. Of all the Chinese cuisines, I think Cantonese has the most in common with Taiwanese. Both are island-ish spots and we both like to use dried shrimps, dried scallops, preserved meats, cured cabbage, and funk. We got stinky tofu, they got king of fruits durian haha. Hong Kong is like Harlem and Taiwan is the rockaways. Renegade Island LOL.

ANyway, I'm happy when joints like A-Wah that people in the hood actually go to get press. I always shit on Joe's Shanghai cause its a wack tourist joint. Its harrible. I went to A-Wah last night cause I knew people would start coming and there was a wait. I won't be back for a while cause its gonna be packed but I don't care. I wanna see these people get paper and come up. I hate gentrification more than the next guy, but my perception has changed. My dad said it best. I came back from Beijing 2 years ago and was like, "Dad, its wack man, they are tearing up everything for the Olympics. All the hu-tongs are being destroyed." And he had the best answer, "Chinese people in Beijing aren't zoo animals. Hu-tongs aren't an exhibit that they need to maintain so you can always go see it." I understood it. We cant see these neighborhoods like fish bowls we put on a shelf like lonely planet books. We like visiting those neighborhoods, we like to see the old school shit, but its easy cause we don't have to live in concrete boxes with no plumbing. We can come back to a/c, laundromats, and poland spring. But they need to come up too.

The important thing is to just make sure we own the land our businesses are on. Lines and wack people coming to your hood are small potatoes. Its annoying, but its a battle, not the war. You want to make sure you don't get displaced but I think overall, Chinese people frequently own the property so I like to think we'll do aite defending chinatown. Where my horns at?