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I gave you a brand-new Ford
You said I want a Cadillac
I bought you a ten dollar dinner
You said thanks for the snack
I just saw ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ on Broadway and really wanted to create a freestyle rap tying together all of today’s disparate local news stories. Unfortunately I quickly discovered I’m as bad at rapping as I am at writing. So I’ll fallback on snark and hone in on critiquing a listicle that’s equally, umm, not good.
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Though it is wildly successful now, the story of Shi Restaurant on Center Boulevard in Long Island City exemplifies the humble origins, lengthy struggles, and risk-it-all mentality of many entrepreneurs in this country. Let’s start at the beginning.
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Omne trium perfectum
A new Chinese restaurant called “Hana Noodle Station” is coming to 10-39 47th Road in Long Island City according to The Court Square Blog. It will be located in the former home of Korean eatery Green Street, which closed last year. Hana Noodle has been operating a stall for the past two years or so out of the DeKalb Market Place in Brooklyn. Eater’s Robert Sietsema had very positive things to say about it’s signature Lanzhou Beef Noodle Soup and Google reviews were mainly favorable. This will be the third Chinese restaurant to open in Hunters Point since the summer, after a lengthy drought of there being zero. Don’t let anyone tell you that bad news come in three’s.
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A new cafe is opening at 5-43 48th Avenue, the former nook of Greenpoint Fish n Lobster according to The Court Square Blog. ‘Little Chef Little Cafe’ will serve coffee and espresso drinks, tea, smoothies, bowls (acai bowls), salads, and offer prepared meal prep available for purchase. The owner is Diana Manalang whose existing business, Little Chef Little Kitchen, has been around for a bit over a year now providing meal prep, catering, and private chef services to local residents. Diana has lived in LIC for five years,
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Serpentine Shelly, Serpentine!
THERE you are, you and your family have diligently saved and slaved for many years to start your own restaurant instead of working 12/6 in someone else’s. You choose a location based on the apparent need and lack of existing establishments, sign an expensive lease and begin a costly and torturous build-out, only to find halfway through the process that someone else had the exact same idea three blocks away. Whether it’s Hunan or Szechuan, by the time it gets distilled for American tastes it’s practically the same.
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