The Crosby Street Hotel's Outdoor Terrace Will Open This Weekend

Well, now you know where to find us this weekend. We'll most likely be chilling out, cherry pie martini in hand, on the roof of one of our (and Demi Moore's) favorite downtown Manhattan hideouts, The Crosby Street Hotel.
Starting on Sunday, visitors can head up to the hotel's outdoor terrace, which has its own private entrance on Lafayette Street. Tucked above the lobby is an adorable little brick-walled patio with probably about as much greenery as Hudson Terrace further uptown, except this one's a lot cozier. Rather than sweeping views of the Hudson River or the Manhattan skyline, you get a little enclosed garden in the midst of other quaint Soho apartment buildings.
Though, don't be fooled. This is still Soho, so there's nothing "quaint" about the prices on the menu.

Nevermind the cold spell that hit New York yesterday. We're confident that by Sunday, the warm breezes will be flowing once again, and it'll be a nice cool cocktail we want in our hand rather than a steaming mug of chai. At least that's what we're counting on.
If the cherry blossoms are already coming out, then it's high time we start ticking off some of these hotel rooftops from our list. As we proved last year, there's quite a few to get through!
[Photo: Crosby Street Hotel]

Top 10 Dim Sum in New York City

New York City is a great place to try Dim Sum. Dim Sum is served most often from 8 a.m. - 2 p.m., as it is the Asian combination of breakfast, brunch and lunch in one delicious meal. Get a good overview of the Dim Sum tradition in this helpful article.

1. Sweet-n-Tart Restaurant 糖潮
Sweet-n-Tart serves a delicious selection of Dim Sum at both of its Mott Street locations. At Sweet-n-Tart, you order your dim sum selections from a menu and they are prepared to order. 

Address: 20 Mott St.
Telephone: 212-964-0380
Opens at 10 a.m. on weekends, 11 a.m. weekdays.
Address:76 Mott St. (Chinatown Map) 
Telephone:212 334 8088
Opens at 10 a.m. daily.
Credit Card minimum $25


2. Sun Hop Shing Tea House 新合誠茶樓
Known for serving delicious jasmine tea (bypass the option of Lipton tea), this smaller dim sum house features carts without the chaos of some of the larger halls. Although the selection is smaller, the service tends to be better, which brings a lot of customers back.

Address: 21 Mott St (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-267-2729



3. Ping's Seafood
Hong Kong style Dim Sum is served by carts circulating around this busy Chinatown restaurant, which is notably smaller than many other places. Fans believe the smaller restaurant serves better food than some of the larger dim sum halls, but you miss out on some of the people watching and bustle that the larger halls provide. Ping's Seafood is also well-known for its fresh-killed fish dishes.

Address: 22 Mott St. (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-602-9988
More: Ping's Seafood


4. Jing Fong 金豐大酒樓
If you want to experience the fun, bustling Hong Kong style carts, this large banquet hall is a great choice for dim sum. Experts recommend bringing your ticket up to the carts that interest you if you feel like you're missing out on the good stuff that's circulating.

Address: 20 Elizabeth Street (Chinatown Map) 
Phone: 212-964-5256 
More: Jing Fong


5. Dim Sum GoGo
While they don't offer cart style dim sum, you can get dim sum whenever Dim Sum GoGo is open, even if that means you want dim sum for dinner. Dim Sum GoGo is well regarded for not intimidating dim sum novices and for being cleaner than your average Chinatown restaurant. Snow pea leaf and three-star dumplings come recommended.

Address: 5 E. Broadway (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-732-0797
More: Dim Sum Go Go


6. Golden Unicorn
Offering two floors of seating, the Golden Unicorn is a perennial favorite for dim sum served by Hong Kong style carts in Chinatown. The steamed shrimp dumplings with shark fin are highly recommended, as are the clams in black bean sauce.

Address: 18 East Broadway (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-941-0911
Hours: Mon - Fri: 9 a.m. - 11 p.m. Saturday/Sunday: 8 a.m. - Midnight 
More: Golden Unicorn



7. HSF Restaurant
Large, bustling restaurant serving dim sum Hong Kong style with carts. Warning for the anti-social: small parties are often sat together at communal tables.
Address: 46 Bowery (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-374-1319

8. Oriental Pearl
Another large, bustling dim sum restaurant featuring the typical dumplings and dim sum you'd expect.

Address:103-105 Mott Street (Chinatown Map) 
Phone: 212-219-8388 



9. Oriental Garden
Excellent dim sum options for folks who like seafood, as this is their specialty. Here, dim sum is prepared to offer, which ensures higher quality offerings, despite missing out on the experience of the Hong Kong style pushcarts.

Address: 14 Elizabeth St (Chinatown Map)
Phone: 212-619-0085
More: Oriental Garden


10. Vegetarian Dim Sum House佛有緣點心素食之家
This is a great option if you have a lot of vegetarians in your group (or folks that stay away from pork and/or seafood). The Vegetarian Dim Sum House offers a variety of creative interpretations of common dim sum featuring mock chicken, mock pork and mock beef instead. Selections are diverse enough to satisfy even meat-eaters in the group.

Address:24 Pell Street (Chinatown Map) 
Phone: 212-577-7176
Hours: 10:30 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. daily (dim sum available continuously)
Cash only

Chinese Massage Place

41 Mott St., 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10013

(212) 226-7282

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The Comfort Chinese Massage stands at 41Mott St. is highly regarded by customers since it opened three years ago.

Do you feel tired after whole day busily work of modern city life? Come to Comfort Chinese Massage to relax from back and foot rub. The original Qi-gong Tui-na, the best Chinese Acupressure and foot reflexology, will dissipate your fatigue, and will refresh you from exhaustion.

We provide some traditional Chinese Medicine services such as the acupressure, fire cupping, and foot reflexology and so on, through which will let you get the health care when you are relaxing here.

Features: skilled Qigong massage techniques, unique Qigong massage, will give you an evident result. At the same time, the famous Chinese medicine practitioners Professor Lu Shouyi’s favorite female student is here, who is good at acupuncture, cupping, and Chinese medicine diagnosis and treatment of incurable diseases.

Help：

Back Neck Pain

Headaches

Overuse Injuries

Sports Injuries

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A very good korean massage- SPAdium

SPAdium

 

49 west 32nd St. New York, NY 10001  (Next to Radisson Hotel)

 

212-967-3131

 

www.spanyc.net

 

7 DAYS, 24 HOURS        

 

Services:

MASSAGE     (55 mins.)        $80

Choice of: Swedish, Shiatsu, and Deep Tissue

 

Swedish

A collection of techniques designed primarily to relax muscles by applying pressure to them against deeper muscle and bone and rubbing in the same direction as the flow of blood returning to the heart. To calm the body and mind, Swedish massage requires a special massage oil, which is also beneficial for smoothing the skin.

 

Shiatsu

Using accupuncture principles, Shiatsu is used to stimulate or sedate the meridian systems of the body and release blocked Qi (aka. Energy). This massage technique was developed in Japan and based on the Chinese medical theory that disease and pain are caused by blocked Qi (energy) along energy pathways in the body. 

 

Deep Tissue

Used to release chronic muscle tension through slower strokes and more direct pressure or friction applied across the grain of the muscles. This invigorating experience is a process of detection of stiff or painful areas by determining the quality and texture of the deeper layers of musculature, and slowly working into the deep layers of muscle tissue.

*Use of the facilities is included with all services

 

Body SCRUB     (55 mins)  $80       (30 mins)  $65

Traditional Korean treatment, excellent exfoliation!

Full body exfoliation that will leave your skin supple and smooth. 

Includes: 

Invigorating Korean Style Salt Glow Scrub

Stimulating Pressure Point Hair Shampoo & Conditioning

Full Body Cleansing and Skin Nourishment

Gentle Facial Cleansing and Egg-white Cleansing for Women

*Use of the facilities is included with all services

TRADITIONAL SPECIAL PACKAGE (90 mins)   $110

Includes: Massage and traditional body scrub and facial

Better products used with a surcharge of $10

*Use of the facilities is included with all services

FACILITIES

· Dry Sauna                                                     · Steam Sauna

· Jacuzzis                                                         · Resting Lounge

· Shower                                                          · Locker Room

· Personal care products provided             · Hot Salt Room (Women)

· Hot tub                                                           · Cold tub

韓國城的原味泡菜新館 (Mu keun ji)

紐約著名的32街korean-town是世界各地遊客的必到之地。來這裡，你將會感受到韓國美食的精緻和獨有的料理風格。而原味泡菜新館，卻是韓國傳統料理當中的最具原汁原味的一家韓國新餐館。如果你想品嘗100%源自韓國的泡菜和各色菜餚的話，來這裡，絕對你是最佳之選。

原味泡菜新館店內充滿韓國風情，讓你就餐的同時，感受韓國古樸濃鬱的自然美。這家店剛剛開展不到一個月，但是一到用餐時間，這裡幾乎都是火爆。特別這裡的特色菜，泡菜燉豬肉、海鮮火鍋、泡菜餡餅都是大伙的必選菜餚，讓大家回味無窮。

來這裡用餐的遊客和華人也是絡繹不絕，新店開張之際，店主也特別用心得製作了非常適合顧客點菜的菜單，即便你看不懂英文菜單，但只要看見菜單上躍然紙上的菜餚圖片；你也能為親朋好友和自己，選擇最適合自己口味精緻菜品。

原味泡菜新館特別推薦菜式有韓式大醬湯。砂鍋中放入高湯、豆腐、西葫蘆、海鮮等,以大醬作為主要調味劑，煮出濃香的大醬香味即可食用。豆腐柔嫩, 醬香誘人。

如果你邀幾位親朋好友過來，想品嘗韓式海鮮火鍋，這道菜就不能夠錯過了。放眼一看，海鮮火鍋的料理，絕對是精品中的精品，店主選用的都是，最新鮮的海鮮產品，配上店內100%來自韓國的爽口泡菜，絕對讓路過遊客，回味無窮。

炎炎夏日季節，選擇泡菜燉豬肉，是健康首選。店主也推薦女性顧客，在點這道菜的時候，如果選擇添加他們店內的嫩豆腐，會別有一番風味。嫩豆腐湯特別是對女性有很多好處。大豆上有女性荷爾蒙的植物性雌激素, 即叫做異黃酮的成份。它有助於預防發生在更年期或閉經女性的心血管疾病及骨質疏鬆症。在過多分泌雌激素的體內起到阻止雌激素的作用，從而預防乳房癌和卵巢癌, 並且還是保持均衡營養的非常好的食品。目前又證明大豆含有的酪氨酸蛋白激酶抑製劑成份對預防癌症非常有效。把此類大豆做為食材料的嫩豆腐湯上加入含有安基酸和牛黃酸等各種營養素的海物而做的海物嫩豆腐湯現已成為受全世界歡迎的食品。

韓式餡餅最傳統最地道的，要數韓式泡菜餅了！這道煎餅又香又酥，一口咬下去，既有泡菜爽脆香辣的口感，又有鮮蝦的香甜，以及洋蔥略帶辛辣的甜味，口感層次豐富。店主還介紹說，在流感最為盛行的一段時間，據說韓國泡菜還能預防流感，皆因泡菜中富含維生素C，能夠增強人體免疫力。初春流感爆發來臨前，大家不妨多吃些泡菜或泡菜餅，或許真能預防流感的侵襲喲。
MUKEUNJI KOREAN RESTAURANT
地址：34 West 32nd ST. NY NEW YORK（5大道和百老匯大道之間）
電話：(212)736-0099

6/18美人魚遊行Mermaid Parade

一年一度的美人魚遊行於週六（2011年6月18日）舉行。美人魚遊行是每年夏天都在Coney island，以海洋為主題。美人魚遊行始於1983年，為了慶祝夏天的到來，因此每年美人魚遊行的時間都選在初夏的星期六，風雨無阻。美人魚遊行是全美最大的藝術巡遊，紐約是最大的夏季活動，參加者使出渾身解數把自己裝扮成傳說中的“美人魚”以及各種海底生物，吸引了眾多遊客前來觀看。 這次遊行的特點是參與者穿著手工服飾的美人魚、海王星、各種各樣的海洋生物

時間:6/18下午兩點
地點:康尼島Coney island
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遊行路線
* The Parade will start at West 21st Street and Surf Avenue 
* The Parade will roll east to West 10th Street 
* at West 10th Street the Parade will turn south towards the boardwalk 
* cars and motorized floats can park on West 10th Street 
* At the Boardwalk, the marchers and push-pull floats will turn west and head towards Stillwell Ave. 
* At Stillwell Ave. the Parade will disband

晚上還有表演活動
時間:晚上7:00-11:30
地點: NEW YORK AQUARIUM (OCEANIC DECK AND AQUA THEATER)
602 SURF AVE. CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN, NY 11224
門票:$25購買

U.S. PACIFIC HOTEL

Conveniently located in the heart of New York City, Downtown Manhattan, U.S. Pacific Hotel represents the perfect combination between a modern downtown boutique and best value; offering gracious accommodations and unrivaled service in an outstanding option for business and leisure travelers alike.

Newly renovated hotel rooms offering gracious accommodations are well-equipped and affordable. The different-sized guest rooms feature modern, comfortable furnishings, queen size bed, wooden floors, work desk and thoughtful amenities.

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