July 11, 2010 0

there are some interesting restaurants in boston…

By Yandream in Food and Wine

Gaslight

> french, brasserie, paris made decor, vin­tage style.

Bee­hive

> live music, art, and european

Gin­ger­park (pre­vi­ously banQ)

> asian fush­ion, drift­ing wood­ish interior!!!

i won’t expect much of the food..but the inte­rior design is killing me, and it reminds me of the drift­wood pavil­ion, project of 2009 from archi­tec­tural association.

B&G Oys­ter

> fresh oys­ter, eng­land style seafood, and bar­bara lynch group’s production.

Sportello

> ital­ino, minimalist

another bar­bara lynch’s. sin­gle bar­bara lynch group’s restau­rant is a “wanna go” for me…

Aquitiane

> french, brunch

um..i heard the brunch there is pretty good.

(all pho­tos via flickr)

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July 10, 2010 0

number two

By Yandream in Food and Wine, Life Smithereens

effort­less lime­nade. never thought it was this easy to make.

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July 10, 2010 0

number one. it is a night like this while thinking of that makes me cry.

By Yandream in Life Smithereens

it is a night like this while think­ing of that makes me cry.

the weather’s get­ting unbear­ably suf­fo­cate and unex­pect­edly hot (100 f) in boston right now.  it is not that i’m com­plain­ing that boston is no good, though i whine about it quite often and didn’t really make much effort in find­ing some­thing amus­ing here. it’s just, some­thing is miss­ing in the air. and again i was mes­mer­iz­ing and long­ing for the zesty sum­mer time last year. maybe, loca­tion mat­ters. the brief cloudy sky that blocked the rays from the sun made me feel that i’m not in boston any­more while i was walk­ing down the lane with des­ti­na­tion the bus sta­tion. it is eff­ing sad being nos­tal­gic of the past/or a cer­tain place while you know it is impos­si­ble to turn the clock back or be there at present.  despite that fact, think­ing of all these free muse­ums, the v&a, the national gallery, tate, british museum, and all these squares and cir­cles trafal­gar square pic­cadilly cir­cles leices­ter square oxford cir­cles, and all these schools lse cen­tral saint mar­tin royal col­lege of art archi­tec­tural asso­ci­a­tion, and all these pubs pubs pubs every­where in the cor­ner where you can just hop in and get a pint of stella and chat, and all these mar­kets bor­ough mar­ket cam­den mar­ket spitafileds mar­ket por­to­bello mar­ket, and all these not so sunny days and wak­ing up so early going to bed so late days and all these glares at st pan­cras sta­tion that make me feel moti­vated and freshed. f. c. u. k.  yet it is think­ing of some­thing that you want to achieve yet feel­ing so pow­er­less that makes you feel so hopeless.

hang out with your cam­era more. please. please. please. maybe you’ll miss here then and real­iz­ing you only have one roll of film for it.

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July 9, 2010 5

[发霉啦] 今天…

By Yandream in Life Smithereens

..去lam­ont library还完书之后俺的拖鞋突然断裂,特么的大概就穿过5次就挂了,难道是下雨的时候泡的了? 结果俺只能赤脚横穿哈佛校园,然后到最近的uo里面顺便退东西顺便买双鞋。册那的是地面温度大概50摄氏度吧。哦。烫死俺了。外加这双鞋真是被逼的。FML

此外昨天刚听过斯蒂尔够大叔讲you women will con­sume much more than men on your closet, and your shoes are eas­ily broken.…不要这么灵验好不好 好不   好  .…

June 28, 2010 4

高科技咖啡机什么的最讨厌了

By Yandream in Food and Wine, Life Smithereens

在丹麦的时候室友同学有一天拿了一个如上图一样的罐子——当时的我还不知道它有一个这么优雅且暴力的名字,french cof­fee press ——在玩。我问她那是什么她告诉我这是她今天新淘到8克朗还是10克朗也就是相当于13块钱人民币或者2美元的coffee press。我看着这个跟烧杯一样的玩意儿纳闷问她怎么做咖啡,她说就放咖啡粉,加热水,过一会儿一press就好了呀,然后就有继续开始把烧杯上面的盖子压下去再拔上来然后再压下去再拔上来无限循环。

暑假到了每天去买咖啡会穷死的速溶咖啡不好喝于是镜头又蒙太奇到了当年秋冬季节丹麦之上文对话场景。寻思着买一个cof­fee press。后来和c小朋友在纽约的继midtown west的bodum倒闭后的一家bath and body works里面买到了心仪的coffee press。下午泡住处附近的咖啡店的时候点了杯卡布奇诺,看着嬉皮小哥倒牛奶做花纹的时候感觉艺术实在太伟大了,深入千家万户中啊!小小一杯咖啡,能创造多少咖啡艺术啊。

受启发了打算自试latte art。youtube教程一番发现需要frothing milk。又youtube了下frothing milk发现不是要有frothing machine就是要有espresso machine。后来靠着万能的google发现了这篇攻略! how to make milk foam with­out a frother or machine

(photo from here)

深深的被人类的智慧感动之后打算试验一下,真的好用啊!!!!虽然第一杯做出来的跟没做一样。。。。但是,我看到了空中悬浮了两枚大字,“长肥”,哦不,是“希望”啊,希望!

简短教程:

1. 空罐头罐,或者乐扣乐扣那种盒子,根据个人口味轻重倒入牛奶

2. 晃罐头罐或者盒子,晃到牛奶发泡,体积变为之前的两倍

3. 打开盖子,牛奶放微波炉加热30秒,热度有助于维持泡沫形态

4. 做好了!倒到espresso里面开始自我发挥吧~

附注1 冷牛奶不好发泡,先热一下再晃比较好

附注2 全脂牛奶效果更好

所以说,高科技咖啡机什么的最讨厌了!!!!

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