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I am a very very bad blogger. I apologize. I am sorry. I cook and I go out to eat and I never take pictures. Most of the time, ok all of the time, I'm hungry like an animal and I can't wait to devour my food so I don't take pictures. And I know all of you readers love to see pictures because really what's better then food porn? I put up this blog not because I love to style my food and tease other people with it. I started this blog because really I just love to eat. I love to eat and that's why I cook. And sometimes I get so excited about it I want to shout it out to the whole world.

Yesterday I went to Hyo Dong Gak for some Korean chinese food. I had some delicious jjam bong (spicy seafood noodle soup), ja jang myun (noodles in brown sauce), and ggan pun gi (fried chicken in garlic and chili pepper sauce) except we had it with beef and squid. Hyo Dong Gak is my favorite place for korean chinese food. The noodles here have a nice toothy texture, the seafood noodle soup full of seafood, and the fried chicken or beef or squid crispy and crunchy.
I highly recommend coming during lunch time for their lunch menu.

Just the other day I had xiao long bao (chinese soup dumplings). I love the vinegar and ginger sauce.

Tonight I went to this awesome underground undiscovered Japanese restaurant that serves home style cooking. It's omakase only so there's no menu. Tsukushi is the name of the restaurant but if you weren't looking for it you would never find it. The door and awning are so obscure that it looks like some side door where workers take out garbage. Once you walk in, you enter what seems like an underground secret cove. Almost everyone eating is Japanese and they all stare at you when you come in like you had just interrupted their cult meeting. For a second they look at you like "how did you find out about this place", but only for a second because they go right back to concentrating on their food. The room reminded me of my grandmother's house. It was warm and inviting. The floor had cheap carpeting and the walls were made out of wood paneling and none of their table wear matched. I felt like I was in some little old japanese grandmother's basement eating the home cooking she made with love. Some of the stellar plates were the fatty pork with macaroni salad, the sashimi plate with uni, the braised tripe and turnip, and the miso cod. I would definitely go again. I feel like there's more to discover about this place but since it was my first time they didn't want to indulge all of their secrets. Not quite yet atleast.

Hyo Dong Gak
51 W 35th St, New York 10001
Btwn 5th & 6th Ave
(212) 695-7167‎

Tsukushi
31 East 41st Street
by 2nd Ave
(212) 599-8888