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Mother’s Birthday – Dinner at Toto

I wanted to do a low key dinner for my mother this year. Coincidently, I started a new job on the same day and had to work late that day. Thankfully, near my mother there is a great restaurant called “Toto.” There is also a Soba Toto near east 42nd st, however, [...]

Menkui Tei

Menkui Tei 63 Cooper SquareNew York, NY 10003

Although my fire for Ippudo burns bright like the sun, I can’t always indulge or look at it directly, for it will burn my retina and balloon my weight back to 200lbs. No joke.

Sometimes, when I am feeling a bit more frugal, [...]

Umi Nom

What is that you see? Yes, that restaurant’s name is Umi Nom. As in, Umi Nom (nom nom nom nom mmmm munch…). Genevieve tipped me off to the place by emailing me the NY Times $25 and under article featuring none other than my namesake. Of course, we had to try it. [...]

Mom’s

So, we went to go visit my mother. We try to make the trip once a week and of course, we get fed. She puts out SO much food. It’s almost unbelievable. For example, this one particular time, she put out, from left to right: Oden with variety of fish cakes, konyaku [...]