Category NYC

“Red Obsession” from the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

“Red Obsession” is about Chinese demand (read obsession) for red wine from Bordeaux, France.  It’s an extremely well made documentary by Warwick Ross and David Roach and is narrated by Academy Award winner Russell Crowe.  Through the documentary, several chateau owners in Bordeaux, global wine experts and traders, Chinese wine collectors and consultants are interviewed […]

“Raw Herring” a documentary from 2013 Tribeca Film Festival

I watched “Raw Herring” yesterday during one of its screenings at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.  It’s a slow moving documentary that felt like a reality show about the (annual?) ritual of fishing for the Dutch New Herring and I can’t say that I got much out of it and that may be because of […]

Lao Dong Bei

This is my first post about a restaurant in Queens.  I went to Lao Dong Bei, in Flushing (Queens) for lunch on the suggestion of a fellow food blogger, Restaurant Fairy.  She brought along another friend who spoke Mandarin, heeding the advice of Ligaya Mishan who wrote about Lao Dong Bei for the NY Times. […]