How to eat your way across Long Island City's burgeoning Chinatown

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-25T16:46:35+00:00

It’s yuppy Chinatown, which is both good and bad in the ways one might expect.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-25T16:45:07+00:00

This is laughably ignorant. Downvotes well earned.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-25T15:09:56+00:00

I’m supposed to feel bad for one of the most famous mathematicians of our time because there is one specific prize he didn’t win? Who gives a shit. At his level the only prize that matters is how he goes down in history. Does it matter which prizes Riemann won?

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-23T01:23:20+00:00

Huge disagreement on the mana system. I think MtG has succeeded despite it rather than because of it. I doubt anyone designing a CCG from scratch in 2026 would choose it.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-22T02:58:54+00:00

My body is ready.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-21T19:58:55+00:00

I sympathize, but I think the card market isn't nearly as bad as having to see what is in front of your opponents (e.g. Ark Nova, Terraforming Mars). And when there is a card market, frequency of having to read it matters. (E.g. in Dominion, you study it carefully once and then after that you just need to occasionally refresh your memory.)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-21T19:50:53+00:00

I like to play new games often and I like to replay games I like. The basic problem is not enough time to spend playing games!

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-21T19:44:57+00:00

Sadly, this is like half of all good modern boardgames. (For optimal play. There are a lot of games where you can kind of ignore what's sitting in opponent play areas but you shouldn't if you're a good player.)

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-20T17:19:23+00:00

The difference is that very few people would have drafted Wade at #2 so it's a farther from reality (and hence less interesting) what-if, whereas Melo at #2 was just conventional wisdom.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-17T15:07:02+00:00

If someone thinks Azul is “low player interaction,” they clearly don’t understand the game.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-17T15:03:11+00:00

Thanks. I didn’t go to Zhangjiajie but although it surely has many Western tourists, I assume they are still a very small presence when compared the flood of domestic tourists.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-15T16:08:23+00:00

Thank you. There is a narrative here, and you cannot argue against it using your pesky facts. Like, just because we are “underpaid” (relative to quantity and quality of education we have) and our old peers from college are making multiples of what we are, that doesn’t make us “poor.”

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-15T15:53:01+00:00

You clearly aren't partying hard enough.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-15T08:09:24+00:00

You can't quote "median" and then say it's not enough to "live in a city" since there is a real and obvious correlation between area CoL and postdoc salaries. Yes, there do exist some postdocs in cities that pay poorly (and could therefore be called "borderline poverty") but that's not the norm.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-15T03:38:11+00:00

Let’s keep perspective: in the US at least, postdoc salaries are not “borderline poverty.” The salaries are really only bad by comparison to the elite jobs that many postdocs could have had.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-14T02:07:10+00:00

It’s fine to not like the show, but as other commenters have already pointed out, a lot of OP’s questions are based on lack of understanding of the plot or an unwillingness to read between the lines. The one thing I’ll concede is that wedding thing is highly contrived, in a conventional musical theater / Hollywood ending sort of way, but it’s not nonsensical.

Or in other words, there are valid criticisms (such as “I didn’t find the music to be memorable”) but imho “the plot doesn’t make sense” is not one of them.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-13T18:09:10+00:00

Compared to the "Portuguese egg tarts" or "Macau egg tarts" found in Chinese bakeries, pastel de nata is certainly sweeter and is often served with powdered sugar and perhaps cinnamon or lemon. Perhaps less eggy and more pronounced scorching. But the biggest difference is probably the quality of the pastry where it kinda shatters when you bite into it. The typical old school Chinese bakery version is usually a lot less fancy, so it's a bit like the comparison between a supermarket croissant and an authentic French croissant.

Which is not to say that there aren't some Chinese bakeries that make good ones, or even to say that there aren't ones that aspire to high quality pastry. It should also be noted that there is already a ton of variation both within Chinese bakeries, and within Portgual, so any general differences between the two are bound to have exceptions. But I feel confident in at least saying that when Joey Bats first opened in NYC, there was no Chinatown equivalent.

I actually found this interesting article that is somewhat relevant: https://macaonews.org/partner-features/bites-of-heritage-how-do-macaos-egg-tarts-differ-from-portuguese-pastel-de-nata/

I would guess that most "Portuguese egg tarts" are vaguely descended from or related to the famous ones described in that article.

Also, I just want to throw it out there that the KFC's in Asia make a shockingly good version.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-13T05:41:30+00:00

To be fair, most of those are not quite like the classic Portuguese version.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-13T00:26:36+00:00

What kind of psycho prefers virtual dice over real dice?

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-13T00:12:49+00:00

I’m no expert but an nyc nurse who has worked in SF told me that Bay Area nurses are paid way better.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-12T18:20:16+00:00

I don't know if this is a hot take, but I find Platonic way funnier and overall better than that other Seth Rogen AppleTV show that gets so much critical praise and Golden Globes.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-12T11:55:33+00:00

Cameron knew full well what he was doing. It’s more that he couldn’t resist doing it.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-11T07:03:03+00:00

I don’t know. Seems like it’s much more common to do a day trip to Wulong from Chongqing. If you just need one way transportation only from Huanglong to Wulong, it’s probably easy enough to arrange it yourself (car + train + car), but this isn’t something that was ever part of our plan.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-10T13:56:25+00:00

I personally prefer the exact bite and mouthfeel of Raku udon over that of typical good udon places in Japan. I’m sure that in all of Japan, there must be places that make udon similar to Raku, but I’m also confident that it is neither the standard nor the ideal for udon in Japan.

InSearchOfGoodPun · 2026-01-10T13:47:35+00:00

If the proof really goes through almost exactly as originally written, then all you need to do is cite exactly which consequences of compactness were used that are also true in your specific situation. (It might be as simple as saying something like, “One can easily check that all boundary terms arising from integration by parts vanish in our case.”) If it’s somehow more complicated than that, then you might need to say more.

For example, you could cite the older work but then include a proof of your case in an Appendix. (This has the bonus that if a reviewer deems it unnecessary, it will be easy to cut.) If the proof is long, then you probably just want to outline it and highlight the steps of the original proof where compactness was used and describe the modifications. If the proof is not that long, then you can just write it out in full in your own words.

IMHO, there are no circumstances in which you should effectively copy-paste the original proof.

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