http://www.xanawu.com/ food & thoughts & FOOD from montreal/beijing/hong kong/whatever en-us shout@xanawu.com hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.xanawu.com/logo.jpg http://www.xanawu.com/ inspired by the village voice, I decided to head all the way down to west 38th for a japanese curry shop called Go! Go! Curry! not too bad and quite filling (I had a medium sized katsu curry for $7.50, but there are smaller and larger portions too): basically a pork cut [...]http://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1240851890Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:04:50 CDThttp://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1240851890 sorry for the lack of updates. my contract in hanoi ended prematurely at the end of march, due to cash flow problems at the NGO I was working for. so after finishing up and a bit of traveling (ninh binh, vietnam & seoul, korea), I am now writing you from the big apple! looking for a job, just like everyone else around here... but anyway, this is where I live: the skinny building in the [...]http://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1240412887Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:08:07 CDThttp://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1240412887 actually, this is me cycling on my way home from work. traffic is the number one thing travelers to Hanoi notice most, and it took me a month to get used to cycling before I got the guts to go for the motorbike. this is fairly light traffic, but hopefully gives you an idea... note the lack of traffic rules and the liberal use of the horn. my roommate makes the apt analogy with downhill sk [...]http://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1235739162Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:52:42 CSThttp://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1235739162 spent a day with my roomie, Seth, wandering around town, shopping, eating at our fav veggie restaurant (Ha Thanh), and also... visiting the temple on kim ma street. it was fairly quiet (well, compared to the chaos outside on the street), though there were a few people inside for the mid-month worship. like the other temples around town [...]http://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1233498855Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:34:15 CSThttp://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1233498855 do you know what's amazing about hanoi? no McDonald's. no Starbucks. ok, granted there is KFC, but can you imagine such a glorious thing? do you know what's not amazing about hanoi? Lotteria. out of sheer curiosity (and a bit of boredom), I decided to try the lotteria a couple of blocks from my pla [...]http://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1232380497Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:54:57 CSThttp://www.xanawu.com/archive.php?permalink=1232380497