This is my current obsession, the plate of chili sesame noodles at No Name Bar by Chef Lindsay Salminen in Greenpoint. While I find the noodles to be a little bit too al dente (not your usual silky and smooth noodles from Chinese joints), I do love the sesame flavor, the SUPER wideness of the noodles and the seasonal greens on top. Also the intimate feeling I get while sitting at the counter directly outside of the kitchen.
One of my dream is to go to Japan during winter time. Find a random ramen cart, get a bowl of ramen and slurp away while it is snowing outside. So the basement of a bar in Greenpoint is far from being a roadside ramen cart in Japan but it'll do for now until I get my butt over to Japan.
It is. Lately I've been getting so much crappy news....news that I actually have no control over. The obvious thing to do is to be sad, angry, gloomy and all around pessimistic (well I'm always pessimistic). But then I think to myself, no matter how I feel, it's not going to change anything. So why not turn it around and be positive. Do something creative. MAKE THINGS HAPPEN!
This past Sunday I got to hang out with Doug and Bryan of 
Some days when I feel down or lost (like I'm just standing still in my life) and just don't want to go home yet, I would take a longer route home. And when the weather is nice, I walk. I always tell myself and others that eventually will move back to LA but after 8.6years of living here I really doubt I'll be moving back. With all the crazy shit and tourists aside, NYC is a great place to just take a stroll. Walking from midtown to wherever does an awesome job at clearing my mind.