A few nice Hot Chinese City Photos images I found:
Dinner at Ozen, Sep 2010 – 14
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Sep 2010) Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
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New York City has some 10,000 restaurants; and since they’re constantly changing (old ones disappear, new ones come into existence) one could probably eat at a different restaurant every day for a lifetime without ever going back to the same place twice.
But that wouldn’t work for me: I have a relatively small list of restaurants to which I return over and over again. Even worse, I tend to order the same meal, over and over again, at each of those restaurants. At one such restaurant, this has reduced my interaction with the restaurant waiter to four words: when I enter and sit (always at the same table), he says, "Same thing?" To which I reply, "Same thing!"
The restaurant is called Ozen, located at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 97th Street. It has a "fusion"-style menu of Japanese/sushi, Chinese, and Thai dishes, the vast majority of which I have never tried, and most likely never will in the future. My "same thing" choices are almost always the following: a glass of Chardonnay wine; a bowl of hot-and-sour soup; a "spicy rainbow tartar" appetizer that combines spicy lobster, spicy tuna, and spicy salmon between layers of crispy sweet potato; and an entree of sushi and sashimi. And sometimes the waiter brings me a dessert plate of green-tea ice cream and some kind of fried-banana crisp.
So I thought I should get some photos of all of these items; and because I didn’t want to disturb the other restaurant patrons, I left my flash unit at home. By cranking up the ISO to 6400, I was able to get enough "natural" (actually, light-bulb) light to get the photos; but since I didn’t have a macro lens, it was difficult to get a nice sharp image when I could only place the various dishes about a foot away from me on the far side of the table.
As a result, the images you see here are from three different visits to the restaurant. On one occasion, my wife came along (usually I go alone, when my wife is taking in a play or movie), so there were a couple of non-standard items that showed up along with my standard items.
There are plenty of other good sushi restaurants in New York City; if you’re in mid-town Manhattan, for example, I highly recommend Haru on 48th Street, between Park and Madison. But since I live on the Upper West Side, just two blocks away from Ozen, I doubt that I’ll stray very far whenever I want sushi for dinner.
And you can’t ask for a more efficient, succinct interaction with the waiters: "Same thing?" "Same thing!"
Dinner at Ozen, Sep 2010 – 07
Image by Ed Yourdon
Note: this photo was published in an undated (Sep 2010) Everyblock NYC zipcodes blog titled "10025."
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New York City has some 10,000 restaurants; and since they’re constantly changing (old ones disappear, new ones come into existence) one could probably eat at a different restaurant every day for a lifetime without ever going back to the same place twice.
But that wouldn’t work for me: I have a relatively small list of restaurants to which I return over and over again. Even worse, I tend to order the same meal, over and over again, at each of those restaurants. At one such restaurant, this has reduced my interaction with the restaurant waiter to four words: when I enter and sit (always at the same table), he says, "Same thing?" To which I reply, "Same thing!"
The restaurant is called Ozen, located at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 97th Street. It has a "fusion"-style menu of Japanese/sushi, Chinese, and Thai dishes, the vast majority of which I have never tried, and most likely never will in the future. My "same thing" choices are almost always the following: a glass of Chardonnay wine; a bowl of hot-and-sour soup; a "spicy rainbow tartar" appetizer that combines spicy lobster, spicy tuna, and spicy salmon between layers of crispy sweet potato; and an entree of sushi and sashimi. And sometimes the waiter brings me a dessert plate of green-tea ice cream and some kind of fried-banana crisp.
So I thought I should get some photos of all of these items; and because I didn’t want to disturb the other restaurant patrons, I left my flash unit at home. By cranking up the ISO to 6400, I was able to get enough "natural" (actually, light-bulb) light to get the photos; but since I didn’t have a macro lens, it was difficult to get a nice sharp image when I could only place the various dishes about a foot away from me on the far side of the table.
As a result, the images you see here are from three different visits to the restaurant. On one occasion, my wife came along (usually I go alone, when my wife is taking in a play or movie), so there were a couple of non-standard items that showed up along with my standard items.
There are plenty of other good sushi restaurants in New York City; if you’re in mid-town Manhattan, for example, I highly recommend Haru on 48th Street, between Park and Madison. But since I live on the Upper West Side, just two blocks away from Ozen, I doubt that I’ll stray very far whenever I want sushi for dinner.
And you can’t ask for a more efficient, succinct interaction with the waiters: "Same thing?" "Same thing!"
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