The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
  • Recent Posts

  •  

    #26 on the New York Times Best Seller List
    and featured on Colbert Report, CNN, Newsweek, and NPR stations coast to coast.
  • Food for Thought

    American Chinese Food Appearances Audio Best Chinese Restaurants Blogging Musings Book Musings Book Photo Gallery China Chinese Chinese Food Chinese Restaurants Chop Suey Deliverymen Fortune Cookies Fujianese General Tso Immigration Jews and Chinese Food Journalism Musings Media & Interviews Multimedia Musings Photo Quirky Reader Feedback Reviews Twelve Video

  •  

  • Archive for July 17th, 2007

    Ouch! Scathing review of NYC Wakiya @ Gramercy Park Hotel on Chowhound

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

    So it’s friends and family week at Wakiya. And the reviews are trickling in. One anonymous one at Chowhound is particularly scathing — saying they found it “HIGHLY disappointing, overpriced & disorganized” (caps in the original). Their check for 3 came to something like $280 (Ouch!). This blogger is kinder, saying it was one […]

    Done! (for the third time)

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

    Okay. I am done entering all the line edits and cuts (a lot of cuts) and major rewriting. Only one chapter was really in bad shape (out of 20ish, not so bad). I have completely gutted that chapter (2/3 of it is gone).
    Now all that is left to polish it — while not procrastinating on […]