A trip to New York is not complete until you’ve visited Chinatown.  And what better way to experience this corner of the city than to sample some authentic soup dumplings?   The typical tourist would have read on Zagat or Yelp about Joe Shanghai on Pell Street and stood in line for hours, only to [...]

I moved to New York City when I was 17. The city was everything a girl from suburbia could dream of and oh so much more, even the air felt electrified with energy. On my first day there, I befriended a Japanese art student who lived 2 floors above my tiny dorm apartment. On our [...]