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lestat

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  1. Do they have any policy about employees buying tons of stuff at 50% or 30% off and flogging off on ebay or to friends? If not, money making opportunities abound.

    Also, I assume as employee, you have first dips on sample or warehouse sales?

    there's a limit on how much you stuff u can get a year...

  2. I actually would say it differs a lot.

    Just recently, I ate an Americanized Chinese restaurant and we got a private room because we were Chinese and the people on the outside were just whities. The food was absolutely different unless I'm guessing that white people don't know how to order Chinese food, but the food was absolutely different. Wrapped Peking Duck with Sauce, Shark Fin Soup, Chicken Feet, "Bhou Zhai", etc. While people on the outside were eating kong pao chicken and orange beef.

    white folks usually order the same stuff all the time... chicken and broccoli, Sesame chicken, Moo Goo Gai Pan, etc, etc.

    they're not gonna venture out and have pig intestines, tongue, ears; goose intestines; chicken feet; snails; tripe

  3. what's with jews and chinese food? i don't know, this made for good listening.

    one Christmas eve... some Jews wanted to go out to eat... turns out all the restaurants were closed... except for Chinese restaurants... so they in and ate... the Jews loved the food... but loved the price even better.... told all their Jew friends... and thats the end of that =)

  4. why so much hate for Joe's? the dumplings are undeniably good and if you like green things I strongly suggest the Snow Pea Leaves. not on the menu but one of my favorite dishes in NYC.

    1 its a tourist trap...

    2 like i said... aside from the dumplings... everything else is crap

  5. i think any list on this subject has to be ammended to include cuisine type. China has 8 general cuisine types, and good examples of many of them can be found in manhattan chinatown or one of the chinatown's in the boroughs.

    i am much more interested in eating good authentic Fujian, for instance, than going to one of the best, americanized shanghai style places, and it seems that is most of chinatown in manhattan, as lestat said.

    how about dim sum? who likes it and where do you like going for it?

    Szechuan, Hunan food... i dont eat much... most of them restaurants are tourist traps.. by the foot of the manhattan bridge, theres a Szechuan place... pretty good...

    Dim Sum.... in chinatown, the big Dim Sum places are Jing Fong on Elizabeth, Golden Bridge on Bowery, Fook Lum Moon and Harmony on Mott and Tung Sing on Division...

    Fook Lum Moon has been goin downhill.... Harmony is decent if u go early... after 12:30-1pm... dont bother... Jing Fong is a hit or miss.... sometimes its good... sometimes it gets ugly... Tung Sing and Golden Bridge are the only consistent ones... wells thats the only 2 my relatives goes to every other day or so....

    Good Authentic Fujian food? go to east broadway... its all fookienese food out there... good luck finding a place with an english menu... virtually everyone of them is a hole in a wall joint with chinese menus...

    right across from HSBC bank... theres a very small Noodle place... its next to a computer store... fresh hand pulled noodles... i always get the beef noodle there... throw a fried egg into it and slap some hot sauce...

    congee village and get the house special chicken. 'nuff said.

    mmmmm... totally 4got about that place... a bit far out of chinatown though.. and long wait to get a table... but the food is worth it....

    Umm...for traditional cuisine I would have to say Dragon Palace on Lafayette and Hester I believe, which is near ODIN. They serve a good variety of mianly cantonese food and the price is affordable and like all good cantonese restaurants, the daily soup special is on the house.

    ? Lafayette and Hester St dont intersect.... Hester ends on Centre St...

  6. a lot of higher end shops in HK are like that IMO. the associates just don't think you'll drop any money so they don't bother.

    i get that alot @ high end stores... Burberry, Gucci, BV, Lane Crawfords, etc, etc...

    they stand there looking all smug... and keep an eye on me as if i'm goin to steal something... but when they figure out I'm gonna buy something... they all swarm over me and wanna suck my dick for the commission...

  7. Joe Shanghai and New Green Bo is good for its Shanghai Soup Dumplings... aside from that.... its pretty much crap....

    Yeah Shanghai changed the chef or something... the last couple of times i went there... it SUCKED

    Wo Hop, 69, Noodletown is good when its late night and your drunk...

    Yuen Yuen on Bayard is pretty decent... hole in the wall type...cheap, good and filling...

    Bo Ky and New Chiu Chao has really good Country Style Duck... the soups dont contain MSG like Wonton Garden...

    for Family style dining... New Cantoon garden(?) its right across the st from the 5th on Elizabeth...

    Big Wong, Wing Wong, New Big Wang, Hsin Wong... they pretty much the same... overpriced... and not enough meat on it...

    for Roast Pork(Cha Siew) over rice... go to Chrystie st between Hester and Grand... small small chop shop... impo... best Cha Siew in chinatown...

  8. I did many times. Many sale events in ny don't have dressing rooms and it's pretty normal to see people try things on between the aisles.

    a lot of cute girls where doing that @ the Barney Warehouse sale last summer.... apparently they forgot men where there too... LOTS of boobies ;)

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