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Picking the best egg custard tart in Chinatown, NYC

September 10, 2011 @ 8:10 pm

Serious Eats has written a review of some of the best egg custard tarts in Chinatown. This is absolutely wonderful!

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Kitten – Chinatown

May 22, 2011 @ 3:26 pm

Really cool music video from Kitten for their song “Chinatown”.

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Video of NYC Chinatown in 1986

April 28, 2011 @ 6:48 am

Another gem from RailroadPacific on YouTube!! Chinatown actually looks largely unchanged. Still full of old Chinese people, still full of fish markets, still full of ducks hanging in restaurant windows. I’m hungry.

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World Wide Tours bus sheared by highway sign post in crash

March 12, 2011 @ 11:56 am

A World Wide Tours bus traveling from Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut to Manhattan’s Chinatown was clipped by a tractor trailer this morning and flipped onto its side killing 13 of its passengers. The bus skidded some distance on the … Continue reading →

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A look at the Chinatown Fair (the only arcade in Chinatown)

February 14, 2011 @ 12:30 am

I grew up always knowing of this dingy arcade on the outskirts of Chinatown called Chinatown Fair but I’ve never once stepped inside. My parents always told me that hoodlums and drug dealers and bad people hung out there and … Continue reading →

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Chinatown’s Nom Wah Tea Parlor reopens with new owner

January 31, 2011 @ 10:23 pm

Photo: Hermann for The Daily News The famous Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Chinatown, New York City opened its doors again over the weekend after being shut for a number of months by the NYC Health Department. Although it’s happened … Continue reading →

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