A friend of mine forwarded a certain Wow confidential newsletter May 2009 that uses a picture of me and Joel Robuchon that was taken by my friend in NY in 2006.
Dear Wow newsletter, I don't mind that you use this image ( although i don't understand what I have in common with
your story), but i would have appreciated if at least you asked for
permission to use the image. Thank you.
The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2009 (or here, if the link doesn't work)list is out and once again it proves how subjective and irrelevant it is.(It does get a huge exposure in the world's media though,a great marketing trick by San Pellegrino?) One of the "new entries" is Le Chateaubriand in Paris. I was there one year ago and found it quite low compared to other Parisian bistros. And now Le Chateaubriand has 40th place among the "World's 50 Best Restaurants" ( among Per Se, Cracco or Les Ambassadeurs) . It must be a joke, isn't it? By the way,the ingenius Les Ambassadeurs has 47th place while Le Chateaubriand is the 40th, i wouldn't even dare to compare these two places, other than they both serve food...
The list is plenty of other irrelevancies, not only this one...
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I wish I had a supermarket close to my home like City Super (the one in the IFC mall) in Hong Kong. You can find there everything your little heart desires,including all sorts of Wagyu Japanese beef. Or maybe rather not ... as i would spend all my money there!(The prices are in Hong Kong dollars). Some more pics after the jump...
After some very busy period (work, work,work, etc) i am more free and back to explore the Big Apple culinary map!
(The view from the Mandarin Oriental hotel bar. This is how the capital of the world looks like !)
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