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Ten normal Peeps? Rite Aid's had 10- and 12-packs of them on sale for 88 cents all week, so for $3.50 you can get 3 dozen Peeps and have enough change left over to buy a dose of insulin off the diabetic waiting on line behind you at the checkout.

Man oh man, last night me and the missus lit up some Peeps over the burner of the stove. They were mad good, their little Peep faces all brown and blistered, with a crisper shell than a normal toasted marshmallow. Now that's living.

Hmmm, looks like something called a "burrita" that I got last year from one of the vendors along the right field fence at the Red Hook baseball (not soccer) fields. Apart from being split open and were instead open-faced, I'd say it resembles the terrific gorditas at Cruz Mexican Deli in outer Astoria.

Mmmmm. That looks like a close relative of the beef tendon noodle soup at the dumpling place on Whitney Ave. in Elmhurst. But with more crispy bits.

Don't forget the cold tendon, and the Chinese celery with smoked tofu. Oh, and the sesame noodles. I love 'em extra spicy, which kicks up the numbing, citrusy Szechuan peppercorn quotient to a crazy degree while still keeping the flavors in perfect balance.

I'd advise against straying far from the Sichuan stuff on the menu. Their Chinese-American dishes are average at best and their wonton soup seems deliberately awful: the good wontons are overcooked to mush and the broth tastes a little like dishwater. It's as though they so resent making wonton soup that they want to spite anyone who asks for it. I love it the way I love cold pizza and Funyuns, but I can't really recommend it except as kitsch.

What? One?

Today, I suppose it's Cevabdzinica Stari Most (Old Bridge) in Astoria.