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by / on May 16, 2012 at 9:52 am / in California, Eat, Gary Fong, San Francisco, Shop

SAN FRANCISCO: FERRY BUILDING MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO – Looking for a wicked triple cream or a super crusty sour batard? How about a special brew made from freshly roasted (within the last 48 hours), pesticide-free, shade-grown coffee beans?  If this is the sort of stuff that makes your mouth water or if you just enjoy good food, then check out San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace [...]

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by / on May 14, 2012 at 4:23 pm / in Bars, Drink, Monica Byers, New York

FOOTBALL/SOCCER BARS OF NYC – LEGENDS/THE FOOTBALL FACTORY

    By MONICA BYERS NEW YORK – The first thing to say is that the title of this series of posts is probably the last time you will here me refer to this sport as “soccer.”   Having lived in Europe for five years, I just can’t refer to the “beautiful game” by that name – it hurts my ears [...]

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by / on April 25, 2012 at 11:57 am / in Asia, Gary Fong, Pattaya, Stay, Thailand

PATTAYA, THAILAND: D2 HOTEL

  PATTAYA, THAILAND - Civil unrest, political coups and floods… if you’re a frequent visitor to Thailand, chances are, you’ll probably have the unfortunate experience of encountering one or more of these dramas.  For me, it was the Red Shirt Protests, whose leaders chose to make Ratchadamri, my neighborhood at the time, their very own ground zero for all red activity. [...]

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by / on April 23, 2012 at 8:16 am / in Eat, Gary Fong, New York

NEW YORK: CHINATOWN’S CHEAP EATS

    NEW YORK – Admittedly my experience with New York City’s Chinatown has not been lengthy (I have not been going there ‘since we were kids’) but I have done my fair share of exploring the area and have come to know it quite well.  And while I’ve learned a lot – mostly that this overly crowded section of [...]

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by / on April 18, 2012 at 6:45 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, See

NEW YORK: SUNDAY AT THE MET

  NEW YORK:  It was not a good day to do the Met (aka The Metropolitan Museum of Art).  The weather was crap, gray and sad, verging on showers.  The eastside subway connecting downtown to the Upper East Side was on a very limited schedule due to some seemingly never-ending construction (which usually means long waits and packed trains).  And [...]

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by / on April 13, 2012 at 4:59 pm / in Gary Fong, New York, See

NEW YORK: THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM

    NEW YORK – I’m not a huge fan of Brooklyn; it’s a bit too hipster-y for me.  But I’ve always enjoyed Brooklyn’s main museum located over in Prospect Heights.  Housed in a lovely, turn of the century McKim, Mead & White designed building (the same blokes who designed a bit of the Met and that grand entrance to [...]

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by / on April 11, 2012 at 5:37 pm / in Eat, Gary Fong, New York

NEW YORK: COFFEE, BAGELS & SLICES

  NEW YORK – While I’ve only spent a short time in New York City, I seemed to have developed a rather strange addiction during my tenure living there, which I’ve decided to acronym as CBS.  CBS stands for: Coffee – i.e. the corner bodega or street kiosk coffee Bagels – i.e. the crusty-on-the-outside chewy-on-the-inside kind Slices – i.e. the [...]

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by / on April 9, 2012 at 3:41 pm / in Gary Fong, Los Angeles, See

DOWNTOWN LA (PART 5): SUGGESTED ROUTES

  LOS ANGELES – Given all that we love about Downtown LA, what would we suggest if you only had one day to spend in Downtown?  If you’re into the arts, we would suggest starting the afternoon with an art crawl (Route #1).  Begin at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo and check out their latest show, then walk a [...]

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by / on April 6, 2012 at 4:23 pm / in Gary Fong, Los Angeles, Stay

DOWNTOWN LA (PART 4): HOTELS

  LOS ANGELES – When it comes to Downtown hotels, there’s no better choice for us than the old Los Angeles Biltmore.  Built overlooking Pershing Square in the 1920’s, when Downtown was the center of the city, the Biltmore is one of LA’s last grand dame hotels – classic, opulent, glamorous, from a bygone era.  It’s primarily known as the [...]

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by / on April 4, 2012 at 4:17 pm / in Gary Fong, Los Angeles, See

DOWNTOWN LA (PART 3): ARCHITECTURE

      LOS ANGELES – Downtown is one of the few parts of LA where you can find classical architecture – from beaux-arts and art deco to revival – mixed in with a range of starchitectual wows.  As far as LA goes, Downtown truly represents a treasure trove of architectural gems, reflecting not only the area’s rich history but [...]

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