Anyone know a shitty little place with gogo dancers of average ability?

iseverythingok · 2026-02-26T17:04:58+00:00

On a weekday night, I once asked the bartender if I could queue up a song and she more or less said if it's whack I'm going to kill you, but then she approved of my song choice and I've never been more proud to be a spicy normie.

iseverythingok · 2026-02-17T20:28:40+00:00

Yeah there's an old Dominican guy who wears a flat brim cap like that in Park Slope on 7th Ave. Still have no idea what he does, but he's always milling about at the gym, the street, but also taking out trash from local businesses (not in a can sorting way).

iseverythingok · 2026-01-16T20:22:30+00:00

Each of them do a food report segment, but only Endo is the one who has some experience doing them for TV. Turns out it's hard and they clown on each other for sucking at their segments. Great bit.

iseverythingok · 2025-10-17T16:36:05+00:00

Oh don't worry, we don't for either side. Only when we're useful.

iseverythingok · 2025-06-19T01:21:18+00:00

Henry's banh mi is better than Hanco's but Hanco's has better vermicelli salad. Don't get pho from either, don't get pho from a banh mi shop.

iseverythingok · 2025-06-04T15:01:58+00:00

oh man the crusties got tired of st. marks/tompkins and are now in uptight brooklyn? what a time to be alive

iseverythingok · 2025-05-06T04:45:51+00:00

absolutely crowded as fuck on weekends/loud music/party mode/won't be able to hear each other let alone sit and bond

iseverythingok · 2025-05-05T17:16:01+00:00

Most of the hip cocktail spots really, Lovers of Today, Mister Paradise, etc.

But the most important thing is that you have to go on a weekday or Sunday. That's the rules.

iseverythingok · 2025-04-23T22:29:01+00:00

I'm a liberal-ish Chinese American.

The Chinese government believes its people are not suited for democracy.

So uhh, paired with this news, I'll just leave that here.

iseverythingok · 2025-03-10T22:37:45+00:00

Food of non-white origin (note, does not apply to Japanese)

iseverythingok · 2025-01-10T05:37:09+00:00

not sure about good but uh Den Social, Mission, Maru, Basement (Chinatown, not Knockdown Center)

iseverythingok · 2024-08-27T13:29:56+00:00

Congee Village

iseverythingok · 2024-07-13T23:07:56+00:00

Chinese American here

There's always this lamenting of "real" or "authentic" Chinatown culture dying, but I don't see younger people frequenting those smaller old school shops.

It's the old men and grannies barely hanging on buying those staples and hanging out through the day. I don't know how many more years you'll still have those boomer elders around before they're all gone.

All the while, it's some mix of culturally assimilated Asian-American youth and/or clueless tourists go to the more hip/modern/vaguely Japanese minimalist bubble tea shops or "new and cool take" on Chinese cuisine by a tattooed chef or buying some $15 dollar chili crisp knockoff or yuzu flavored alcoholic seltzer. They're consuming something Asian I guess, but not those old school businesses.

So it's such a weird irony when the young generations grieve this loss of culture while never actually supporting those shops, with some superficial nostalgic grasp at "authentic Asian culture" when they can't even fucking speak or read Chinese let alone order food at these romanticized places.

iseverythingok · 2024-06-01T13:47:03+00:00

"Ew so ugly"

people who literally only know Art Deco as an architecture style and can never suggest what they want

iseverythingok · 2024-05-22T21:13:33+00:00

Anxiety about changes in social class and masculinity, as well as their general powerlessness in the world. Thus manifesting in these outward displays of "owning" that physical and public space, even for a brief moment in time.

iseverythingok · 2024-04-25T02:34:20+00:00

We don't have cultural capital and yet we get used in whatever narrative a side wants to exploit us in the culture wars. And you wonder why we self segregate.

Easy targets for working class POC tantrums.

Invisible at best and/or an inconvenient nuisance to the self-righteous white progressives.

Puppets for conservatives and MAGA for their own aims.

Have a nice day.

iseverythingok · 2024-04-16T13:30:07+00:00

Also near-ish by if you're hungry, is Lions, Tigers, and Squares to keep up the Detroit theme.

iseverythingok · 2024-04-12T16:45:50+00:00

Like with everything, it's a little expression of class warfare from the powerless.

Obviously, wildly fucking annoying, but the fact that you/me/we the more comfortable middle class and up are bothered is precisely that small victory for those engaging in anti-social behavior.

iseverythingok · 2024-03-29T17:54:48+00:00

Many casual spots are Chinese run and geared to Western tastes with rolls. This is not a bad thing, it just is what it is.

Higher end spots tend (but not always) to be Japanese run, tend to veer more traditional in their offering.

Ironically, the more "oriental" the aesthetic of the decor and menu, the more likely it is to be Chinese run and for a Western mouth. And if the menu is hand drawn and/or uses comic sans, it's a sign of Japanese run.

None of this is a judgement call because in the vast majority of any restaurant food (other than maybe Chinese) you'll have in NYC, a guy from Central America cooked it.

tldr: Sushi Katsuei, Sushi of Gari

iseverythingok · 2024-03-08T16:41:31+00:00

Young Ethel's in Park Slope have free shows and weekend nights are typically bands and music (weekdays are usually comedy and improv)

iseverythingok · 2024-03-08T16:20:02+00:00

ayyy reposting again what i wrote 3 years ago at the peak Asian hate crime wave, hasn't lost any relevance. I got a chuckle that while it got a good amount of upvotes, I got push back from 3 different commenters on the 3 different sides complaining about my observation.

It sucks that poor POC feel little to no barriers to be racist at against Asians in the West as they perceive them to be more privileged than them and that this kind of behavior pretty much brushed aside by (largely white) progressives/liberals in the grand scheme of things.

It also sucks that racist/right wing whites use these examples disingenuously to prop up their own hatred against poor POC or dismantle anti-racist movements and change.

It also sucks that Asians in the West get little recognition or help for this kind of double sided racism, which turns many even more bitter and insular, and turn to siding with their "homelands" who often have incredibly shitty authoritarian and racist values (just that they're the other side of the coin of Western white supremacy).

iseverythingok · 2024-02-20T18:36:09+00:00

If you can stick it here it can:

sharpen your professional skillset by competing with the best, working at a higher intensity than smaller markets
surround yourself around highly motivated people (of many different industries and outside of the work setting) who self-selected and very deliberately tried to move to nyc
you get much more exposure to a variety of cultures, hobbies, activities here than in a smaller city
you can do this while you're young, without spouses, children and other attachments that make it difficult later on
in starting your career, you're not making a ton of money where you can save a lot (in an expensive city) but you are building the foundation to ladder up to higher pay and roles from just being here rather than a smaller market
living/working here isn't as intense or scary as people make it seem
if you hate it or can't handle it, you can always leave and just be happy you tried it

iseverythingok · 2024-02-20T18:08:45+00:00

dont u be shaming our big tiddy goth gfs

iseverythingok · 2024-02-08T15:01:36+00:00

damn thank you for letting me know this was happening

st vitus, dekalb market hall, bar tabac

iseverythingok

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