Archive for the ‘food’ Category
Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival
June 13th, 2013 by Mr. C
Last weekend was another fun-filled celebration on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where gleeful culture clashes of immigrant Chinese rubbed elbows with the Jewish Community. The Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival has been an annual event for 13 years – created to celebrate these two cultures living side by side […]
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Big Apple BBQ Festival
June 12th, 2013 by Mr. C
(Skylight Inn with their double cleaver whole hog chopping action at the Festival) (Whole Hog Sandwich – Skylight Inn) The Big Apple Barbecue Block party went out with a smoky bang last weekend at Madison Square Park! Once again we over-loaded ourselves with some porky delights enough to get the Dukes of Hazzard County out […]
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St Louis Record Store Crawl
March 20th, 2013 by chocko
VINTAGE VINYL (6610 Delmar) On a recent trip to St. Louis, MO to go hang out with Julie of Waves On The Sea at a Tegan and Sara show, Chocko made a short list of record stores to check out while in town. Before going to the concert at Pageant in a neighborhood known as […]
Tags: apop records, bdr records, chuck berry, euclid records, record exchange, record stores, st. louis, stl, ted drewes, the retros, the welders, vintage vinyl
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All chile peppered out in New Mexico!
October 2nd, 2012 by Mr. C
(green chiles roasting on the fire at the farmers market on Cerrillos Road & St. Francis Drive in Santa Fe) ———————————————————————————————————————— Last week the Planet Chocko raggamuffin crew flew out to New Mexico for a little excursion hoping to get abducted by a UFO in order to find out more about our martian ancestry. We […]
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8th Annual Vendy Awards NYC
September 24th, 2012 by chocko
Last Saturday, perhaps the happiest event on the planet happened on Governor’s Island…people ate delicious food, lounged out and then street food vendors got recognized for excellence in their craft. Yes, The 8th Annual Vendy Awards went down in NYC, my caloric intake went up with each food sample and pandemonium broke loose along with […]
Tags: 2012, Andy's Italian Ices & Expresso Bar, chinese mirch, governors island, Mayhem & Stout, new york city, nyc, Pestle & Mortar, The Cinnamon Snail, Tortas Nezas, vendy awards, Xin Jiang Prosperity Kebabs
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Chinese Mirch Lion Dance at the Vendy Awards
September 18th, 2012 by Mr. C
The Chinese Mirch Food truck team stepped it up a gear or two at the Vendy Awards by serving delicious chinese food with indian spices as well as by hiring a troupe of traditional chinese lion dancers from the Wan Chi Ming Hung Gar Kung Fu School to mesmerize the crowd with some traditional drum […]
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2012 NYC Vendy Awards
September 17th, 2012 by Mr. C
(Pushcart Peddler on the Lower East Side of NYC in the late 1800’s – Photo courtesy of the NY Public Library digital gallery) From the same vibe, struggles, and DNA of the storied New York pushcart peddlers of the past have come a new generation of street food vendor warriors walking the path of entrepreneurship […]
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food pron <~> porn
September 7th, 2012 by Mr. C
Just a few photos of some eats that we’ve enjoyed over the past few weeks or so…. The Mile End Sandwich shop is a Montreal inspired Jewish Deli in New York City. Mile End Sandwich 53 Bond Street NY, NY (NoHo) (The Ruth Wilensky – fried beef salami, mustard, onion roll – the roll was […]
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Don’t cry for me Philadelphia updates!
August 1st, 2012 by Mr. C
———————————————————————————————————– With this exclusive update, we’re going to hand the baton over to Mondocurry who can often be found dissecting and probing movies with his lab coat on while traveling at the speed of thought at Unseen Films. Mondocurry’s film writeups can be described as poetic meshed with a systematic and cerebral approach offering up […]
Tags: bella vista, food, mondocurry, murals, passyunk avenue, philadelphia
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LUNCH HOUR NYC exhibit – New York Public Library
July 17th, 2012 by Mr. C
While enroute to catch some movie screenings at the NY Asian Film Festival playing at the Japan Society, I dived into the New York Public Library for a quick cool-off before my circuits started to overheat. I ran into this free & neat exhibit called LUNCH HOUR – NYC. The exhibition was basically a collection […]
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12th Annual Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival – Eldridge Street
June 13th, 2012 by Mr. C
(corner of Canal & Eldridge Streets) I can always tell the summer season is just around the corner when two of my favorite block parties come a knockin’ to NYCs door, the BIG APPLE BARBECUE Block Party and the EGG ROLLS AND EGG CREAMS Block Party! It is no coincidence that both of these festivals […]
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10th Annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party!
June 11th, 2012 by Mr. C
The Big Apple Barbecue Block Party came, conquered, and then drifted into the hog smoked gotham sunset this past weekend but not without creating some kind of slow cooked-carnivore frenzy! About 17 BBQ pit masters from all over the U.S. converged into Madison Square Park in NYC on friday night to setup for the weekend […]
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