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The Crab Pot: Observations from the Dock

There was a decent article in Newsday this week, link. Listed more places to go crabbing in on Long Island.

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New Jersey Dispatch: The Great Wall Supermarket

Here's the page with all the store locations. This page has all the weekly specials for the NYC stores.

As for the stuff, while the new Flushing store on Northern Blvd is a lot prettier than usual the pricing and quality is still slightly below Hong Kong Supermarket on Main St.

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How David Chang's 'Locals Only' Free Lunch Contest Works

The questions on Sat and Sun were id-ing the correct bridges in a set of 4 images.

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Buy Girl Scout Cookies at the 'Cookie Cupboard' Today

I had some Dulce de Leche cookies and they were pretty good, didn't taste like Dulce de Luche to me. The Samoas are too sweet for me.

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The City's Best Soup Dumplings at Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao in Flushing

I don't know about dumpling skin to meat ratio but I think the xiao long baos here are excellent. I think the picture is making the skin look thicker than it is in real life. I also enjoy their breakfast dishes of hot soy milk and fried crullers. They have other shanghainese dishes also.

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Sugar Rush: Normal Milk Tea Vs. 'Hong Kong' Milk Tea at Hon Cafe

HK Style Tea & Coffee is called yuan yang(yin yang). I don't think there's a place in NYC that makes it as good as real HK diners.

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Meet Kelly Choi, Host of 'Top Chef Masters'

I've seen this girl irl filming a segment, she is so skinny and tall. But her makeup was unnecessarily set on hooker.

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

the momofuku cookbook to add to my growing collection of cookbooks (i just recently received julia child's "mastering the art of french cooking" as a gift).

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

Haven't really thought about it yet... Maybe The Pioneer Woman Cooks?

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

I would seriously LOVE a Breville Elite juicer... this way I can start detoxing from all the "food porn" of '09!!! And a puppy with ear fringe ;P

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

Dinner reservations or a private cooking class at Le Bernardin (w/Avec Eric)!

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A job, my old apartment, a dry aged ribeye, morels and unfiltered sake

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A Cuisinart toaster oven like the one Eric Ripert used in his series of web videos.

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A Le Creuset dutch oven! Preferably home delivered, I don't think I could carry that thing by myself!

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A job as a food writer or pastry cook and subscriptions to food magazines! I also wouldn't mind some new kitchen gadgets like the measuring cup that's also a scale. Ok--so maybe I'm asking a lot from Santa, but I've been good! :)

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A basket of Japanese green tea flavored sweets! (cookies, ice-cream, mochi, chocolates!!) :D

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Win Tickets To 'Cook. Eat. Drink. Live.' This Weekend

A Chemex coffeemaker (for the office, no less)...ok, I'm going to end up buying that anyway, so a kitchen scale so I can finally make all those recipes for which the measurements are in METRICS. Yes, I am a silly American ; )

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