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Back in the 19XX's, a new Chinese restaurant opened up in my town in the New York suburbs that served Szechuan food. It was a huge departure from the traditional Cantonese cuisine dominant in the U.S., embodied by the conventional egg rolls, spare … [Continue reading] about HIBINO LIC: THE REAL DEAL
The restaurant bounty keeps coming in 2014. Only a month after LICtalk published it's industry-renowned annual LIC Restaurant Round-Up, we have news of two more previously unannounced restaurant openings. … [Continue reading] about TWO NEW RESTAURANTS COMING TO LIC
This Sunday, March 9, LICtalk turns two years old ((which is like a decade in "LIC years")). Though we've come to view ourselves as literary virtuosos, others might think that we're still wearing diapers. The one thing that can't be debated, is the … [Continue reading] about HAPPY 2ND BIRTHDAY LICTALK!
Who knew that in addition to everything else we have in Long Island City, there is a defender of freedom? Ok, that title may be a bit of a stretch, but this weekend in The New York Times there was an article about strip clubs in New York, … [Continue reading] about SHOW PALACE UNDER ATTACK
Every six months or so, my little prodigy Spalding, grows out of his Armani, and I have to have him chauffeured to Barneys for a new fitting. That leaves the problem of what to do with his barely used cast-offs? Do I really want to put them on … [Continue reading] about TENANTKING: BORN AND BRED IN LONG ISLAND CITY