Happy New Year !!
Happy Lunar New Year !!
So, we are welcoming in the year 4701… I think it’s going to be a good year. To start it off with a full belly, G and I went out to Flushing to eat, and eat, and eat. The traffic was all backed up on Northern Blvd., I guess because the parade was just over. Here’s a straggling Lion we passed. The weather was damp and drizzling on and off, not a great day for a stroll. Then we hit a few markets.
We knew the market was named something that started with an “H”… So when we came a cross a big one named Han Ah Reum, we went in to check it out. Wow, it had tons of neat stuff. But, the best is the snack bar before you enter the main market area. We had some beef filled pancakes, and an out of this world corn dog. I mean, country fair corn dogs have nothing on thse bad boys! You can sit in a little room at a counter and munch away, and they had a big urn of barley tea (yum) brewed, just help yourself. Speaking of tea, ask me sometime about “blossoming beauteas” they are really good, and so pretty, with whole flower blossoms in your cup…
So we’re shopping away, got a few things and more that aren’t in this pic. And Grace eyes these choco-pies she used to eat as a kid, gets all excited, her g-mom used to have to hide them in the attic so she could dole them out. So I got a box for home, and ya’ know, they are good, I can see being little and just eating one after another until you have a tummy-ache. Then, on the way out, the fried squid were done. Mmmmm, so we grab a plate full and pop another squat in the munchin’ room.
So we load up the Jeep, have a smoke, and head on up the road. Stopped at another big market, but it was Chinese rather then Korean, but I did get a few pieces of bamboo for my ever growing plant collection here, and a couple pieces of cake for a later on snack. We did stroll for a bit, but it was too cold. Grace noticed a cool sign, the “Do Me” (hehe) pain clinic, guess for those S&M types (of course that would never be us), but it was amusing.
Then we are driving along and she spots it- The market, Han Yan, it’s the right one, and of course, it starts with an “H”. This one was big also, but they had a couple women inside making fresh kimchi, and they had a nice selection of kimchi’s many of them made right there. Picked up a couple jars, can’t resist good kimchi. But lemme tell ya’, the snack bar in this place, was great!
The squid were way more yummy, and I had a good bowl of noodle soup also. G had another corn dog, but it wasn’t as good as the first place. And here they bring your eats to you while you sit. We had seen a small band of folks singing and making music, going from shop to shop, when we were across the street. Well they must know where the good fried squid is at, as they were eating here as well. I have to say though, my belly is not used to mass quantities of fried food and grease, and I was over-stuffed and going to turn green soon if I had one more bite. We waddled back to the Jeep and headed home. But not before scoping out the restaraunt we’re gonna pig out at next time we’re in the neighborhood!
Got home and ate some cookies (like I wasn’t full enough). Sam and I went to the movies, saw Final Destination 2. Good for some laughs, the splatter-gore scenes were so gory it was comical, half the theater was laughing. Every now and then I surprise me and watch a movie kinda out of character for my taste, but enjoy nonetheless…When I wake up later, I’m taking Maggie and Sam down to Chinatown in Manhattan to see the parade there tomorrow. So maybe I’ll post more pics if I take any.
OK, it’s late, tired. Have a good one…
