Are you a foodie on the go? Read up on Stacey’s previous reviews from Culinary Adventures in New York here. For my jerk chicken culinary adventure, I asked my friend Allison for a recommendation near her apartment in the Caribbean neighborhood of Flatbush.  On Friday evening, she took me for a walk down Church Avenue, [...]

I have taken more culinary adventures to Flushing than to any other place in the city.  It’s 1 hour and fifteen minutes from my apartment in Brooklyn, either by taking the 7 train or hopping on one of the secret inter-Chinatown vans.  They’ll take you for $2.50 between the New York Chinatown, from lower Manhattan [...]

In a city with food offerings as diverse as New York, Uighur cuisine is still difficult to find. Uighur (often spelled Uyghur) is a Turkic ethnicity spread across Central Asia, mainly in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and the northwest Chinese province of Xinjiang. I fell in love with Uighur food when I was living in China, [...]

When I spent that year living in Shenzhen, one of the biggest problems I had was not making many friends. This has never been an issue for me in any other living situation – be it growing up, at summer camp, at college, or in my twenty-something life here in New York. I’m plenty likable, [...]

Who doesn’t love a good pun? Most people, it turns out. The Chinese language, however, is structured to lend itself to a whole world of puns. Each syllable corresponds to a written character, and they are put together in different ways to make words. For example, in English, we have a word for owl. It’s owl. It [...]

The holiday office party season is upon us.  I always enjoy browsing through the articles warning what NOT to do while celebrating, namely get too drunk, seduce a coworker, mouth off in front of your boss, or the classic dance on a table with a lampshade over your head. In China, there are different standards [...]

The United States is lovingly known as a “melting pot” for people with different ethnic backgrounds.  The degree to which they’re actually “melted” together varies across the country, with the density of cultural mix easily one of the top reasons why New York is an infinitely intriguing place. Without getting into exposure to foreign languages [...]

Unfortunately, the U.S. hasn’t developed its rail system to make it an economically sound option for long distance travel. I refuse to pay ninety bucks to take the Amtrak train to D.C. when the bus costs only fifteen. In addition to the inconvenience, we’re missing out on the joy of the long train ride. Each [...]

There is a very special place in my heart for the late night snack. There’s the classic 24-hour diner, the hot slice of New York pizza on a cool autumn night, the bowl of Cinnamon Toast Crunch—if I’ve had a long night out on the town, I could usually go for something between dinner and [...]

I spent my year in China living in Shenzhen, the economic boomtown adjacent to Hong Kong.  It wouldn’t have been my top choice for history, culture, natural scenery or standard Mandarin accent, but it was rife with opportunities for strange little part time jobs. One weekend, my friend Greg told me that he was going [...]