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Best of the Wurste is already sold out, sorry.

Per a Vietnamese friend:

"Again, this year, the NYVACA & the NY Vietnamese school have a Tet celebration in Flushing, on Sat Feb 19th, at 6.30 pm. It's at St Michael Church. 136-76 41st Ave, Flushing (between Barclay Ave & Union St). The ticket is $10.00 if you buy in advance, at some VN restaurants in Chinatown. If not, it's $15.00 at the door. It's from 6.30 pm to 12 am."

Before last year's event, she added that the celebration will feature traditional music and dance from 6:30 till 8:00, followed by dancing till midnight, and that Vietnamese food and drinks will be available for sale.

Crawfish boil tickets are already sold out, alas.

Do they serve a scungilli pie, as at Joe & Pat's?

http://www.eatingintranslation.com/2008/03/joe-pats.html

It's looking like the head pizzaiolo at Coalhouse, in Stamford, picked a good time to part ways with Anselmo's:
http://www.eatingintranslation.com/2009/12/coalhouse-pizza.html

Thanks very much, Joe! As it happens, I'm headed up that way with a couple of chowhounds this week for a repeat visit, and with so many intriguing dishes to choose from, every bit of intel helps.

Do you know whether M&T's wall menu, those 60-odd strips of colored paper, duplicates or expands on the handheld menu?

"These restaurants pose one major problem; they are in neighborhoods so rich with eating possibilities that every meal is tinged with regret. ... This New Jersey beat is a real challenge."

I'm glad you're hanging in there for our benefit. Nice photos of these Chinese-leaning dishes, the taypa especially.

Serious Eaters should note that Saturday's Bolivian celebration in Jersey City is actually two events. First is a parade, beginning at 11:00 and winding down near City Hall, where I came across some interesting street food last year; admission is free. Second is a festival at the Mount Carmel Church, perhaps two miles away; it begins at 4:30, and there's an admission charge of $10 or $15 depending on when you arrive. I didn't attend last year, but the event website gives a sense of what you'll find.

There's another Bolivian festival on Sunday, outdoors in Hackensack, free admission, which I'd check out myself if I weren't going to be in Connecticut. Details on Eating In Translation.

There's also a Great Wall at 137-45 Northern Blvd., in Flushing, Queens, a little east of Main St. and almost immediately across the boulevard from the lately celebrated Hunan House.

Van Cortlandt is a big park -- more than 20 percent larger than Central Park, in fact. Where in the park do you plan to picnic?

Wonder what David Pasternack would do with these:

http://www.eatingintranslation.com/2009/06/american-fu-zhou-grocery.html

Well and good; I like scrapple myself. But for Serious Eaters who salivate at the thought of seafood at the seashore, I'm pretty sure that Mustache Bill's gets theirs from Shore Catch, also on the Barney end of Long Beach Island (near Viking Village) and, on Fridays and Saturdays, at the Fulton Stall Market.