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jhlurie

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  1. I partially disagree with Katherine. I know its a huge generalization, but advertising folks follow generalizations. Men identify more with visual statements, and women with verbal ones. She is 100% correct that these slogans would never "fly" in the US, but despite the "young male" subtext of the slogans, the method of delivery is the reason it wouldn't work. A modern American ad campaign for men would be much more likely to use visual puns instead of verbal ones. Buy any American glossy magazine with male readership (Maxim, GQ, FHM, Playboy) and take a look at the ads (especially the liquor ads). Pictures of swimming pools shaped like Vodka bottles. Or a glass filled with ice with the image of a woman in the ice cube. Stuff like that. Trite in its own way, but playing into the visual fixations of young men. Postcards or print ad, either way I'd analyze the expected audience before deciding on the type of slogan... or if they should even use slogans...
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    China 46

    Ah yes. The whole hotel/motel thing. I wasn't thinking... I've driven past that place for years. As motels go, it looked pretty sleazy. I noticed the renovation as well, but I'm wondering why they are bothering--it's not exactly a prime location EXCEPT for ehem... hourly rentals. Geez. This is a family website. I'll shut up. "Go to China 46". That's all this needs to be about. :)
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    China 46

    Incredible. They make the place look like a million bucks on that website. In truth, the place looks like a Truck stop. That doesn't change the fact that the food is great, but... the fact that it is located immediately in front of a hotel which appears to rent rooms by the hour certainly gives the place some, um... flavor, not indicated by the website. Of course the food is all that is important there. Tommy's well-publicized disgust at most Americanized Chinese food must have been given a real workout at China 46. And personally I don't blame the owners for the big sign declaring how authentic they are--they have to try and disguish themselves from the huge pack of crappy Chinese restaurants that the area is plagued by. The only problem with that is that sceptics like Mr. Shaw are so jaded from all of the false claims of authenticity that the sign may have backfired and kept away as many people as the sleazy hotel behind the restaurant. :)
  4. Congrats! For those interested this is the "sequel" to this thread: http://www.egullet.com/cgi-bin/topic.cgi?forum=5&topic=137 (Edited by jhlurie at 11:42 am on Dec. 25, 2001)
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    "White" wines

    I've had non-oaked red Merlots (and they've been much better for it). I had one yesterday from Australia... I'll endevour to get the name if anyone cares.
  6. Jay, We've already had the "Mother's has gone way downhill" discussion in another thread here. On your next business trip, maybe you'll be Buck Town bound. :)
  7. I assume you mean to the description of the forum. Kentucky has a pretty good case for being a contributor of note to Southern food, but do Arkansas and Mississippi share this distinction? This is just ignorance talking... I'm asking about their food history, not saying that they don't rate it. :)
  8. Might not need the stress-relief of rum and cigars if you lived in the Big Easy. :) Heck, I'm terribly jealous of Nola and GumboYaYa. If you simply visit, there is the heartbreak of leaving. Then again... it does get kind of warm there for my tastes at certain times of the year. (Edited by jhlurie at 3:48 pm on Dec. 21, 2001)
  9. I'm curious... once we conquer chef2chef, will we then go on to conquer other powerful and important food web directories one at a time until we dominate them all? :) You know... I can't FIND any other web food directories that are based on votes. http://www.chefheaven.com/Ratings/ is the closest I've seen... and no site has more than 11 votes, except for one oddball with 52 votes.
  10. I don't know, Wilfrid, my original reading of the phrase "local" (in the sense that Nola seemed to use it) was that these should be places that are of local fame as opposed to places like Emeril's--which are frequented more by tourists like us than the natives. That's why I though two lists were needed... one that takes places like Emeril's into account (labeled as "upscale" by me earlier--that's probably too much of a generlization) and one for local and/or less up-scale places
  11. Yes... but does that enshrinement get you more exposure than a #1 position?
  12. This being jointly a restaurant AND cooking BBS, I'm pretty sure that you can rightfully be proud of your "zero" answer, GumboYaYa--especially with where you live. I'm close to your figure. I'll prepare real food for myself maybe twice a week, excluding Microwaved/pre-prepared foods. I live in a reasonable area for restaurants too (nothing like New Orleans, of course), but I also live in close proximity to wealthy towns with all kinds of gourmet shops and gourmet supermarkets, so even the prepared food is better than most regions. I also live in the take-out capital of NJ--the number of decent restaurants who provide this is my area is probably higher than anywhere except Manhattan. Thank god for it too. With my commute, if there wasn't decent prepared food/take-out, I'd probably starve. The rare times when I do cook, I take my time (which is probably just as well, since the skill-set I have to work with is pretty low).
  13. Yes, but does eGullet someday want that "special" 50,000 vote thing, or is it more satisfying to be #1? I wonder if the "honor" of being retired at 50,000 votes is one which can be refused.
  14. I've been to Chez Louis. It's actually reasonably good. Not excellent, but good...
  15. Boy was I surprised the first time I went to Sin Goong Jin after midnight. The food is actually pretty good there too.
  16. I last ate there about 3 years ago. How recent was your last visit?
  17. That "Senda Salami To Your Boy in the Army" sign (said with the words "Sa-la-mi" and "Ahh-mee" rhyming, I'll bet) shown on Hollyeats.com's Katz's Deli review is hilarious! That COULD have been there for the past 60 years... but I'll bet it's new... (Edited by jhlurie at 9:05 pm on Dec. 17, 2001)
  18. Maybe... John's Pizzerria in Times Square? Carmine's was decent at one point years ago, but I've heard so many people criticize it recently that it's probably not worth it. Geez. Affordable but good Italian is as scarce in that part of town as anything as far as I know... Stuck in my wallet for quite a while is a card from a place called "Gino"(780 Lexington Avenue)--which is the complete opposite direction from the other places in Times Square. Supposedly Frank Sinatra used to eat there all of the time--which I suppose means very little a decade or two later. We've got to get Steven Shaw in here. Good affordable informal Italian within 10 minutes of Rockefeller Center. Eek. I'll bet he knows a place or two, but my ignorance shines...
  19. In my experience that immediate area around Rockefeller Center is tough for the informal mid-range non-chain type of meal that you are asking about. If you can get WAY over to 9th Avenue in the low 50's there are litterally TONS of restaurants of the type you are looking for... but if you are constrained to walking from Rockefeller Center, going in the direction of Times Square might be your best bet. What type of cuisine do you like... that might help... (Edited by jhlurie at 1:18 pm on Dec. 17, 2001)
  20. So basically Adam, when you drink that stuff you could be doing something HEALTHY--preserving your own tissue instead of some on a slide, correct? :) Yeah... we all wish it worked that way...
  21. Question: The next plateau after safely getting into the Top 75 is obviously to get to the page before... and so on until the first page and eventually to #1. A mere 7300 votes or so will do it... Is the next step beyond THAT for eGullet to someday many years in the future to get "50,000 points"... thus reassuring us that we get a permanent small square banner alongside every chef2chef page? You know... along with those all-time greats "World Wide Recipes" and "Recipe Du Jour". Is your boundless ambition burning that brightly, Jason? Do you dare hope and dream for the immortalization of eGullet in such a prestigious fashion? Those will truly be golden days.
  22. I was there in the mid to late 80's, but I guess the decline hadn't really reached its full steam. Now that you mention it, the Ethiopian place I especially liked--I believe--was "Red Sea". Its a shame to hear about the demise of Vietnamese cusine in D.C. It was a highlight of living in the area. In that time, Dupont seems like it was exactly at the point you describe Adams-Morgan now--washed up. If its had a revival, well, I guess I'm glad to hear that. I also have vague memories of Cleveland Park being an up-and-coming area a decade ago, and your off-hand remark seems to indicate it has up and came... Was Mexicali Blues there ten or eleven years ago? I seem to remember it. Actually it cut a bit to hear your description of the entire area as "mediocre unadventurous dining", because that was not my impression at all during my time there. I bemoaned the lack of good Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Thai restaurants in the area in those days, but great Vietnamese, Mexican, Ethiopian, etc. more than made up for it.
  23. Holly, what ever happened on your NY trip? Where'd you wind up visiting? Did the Holland Tunnel toll booth folks let you into NY? :)
  24. It's been more than a decade since I was last in DC, but my old standby was to go to the area called Adams-Morgan (around 18th St. and Columbia Rd.). Wall-to-wall restaurants in about a three block range--most of them ethnic--and most of them very good. Again, I'm stretching my memory, but right in the heart of Adams-Morgan I remember that there was a highly excellent Ethiopian restaurant and also a really good Southern-American cooking place. Neither cuisine was spicy. I just found this link-- http://adamsmorgan.net/ --with a current neighborhood restaurant directory. Apparently there are SIX different Ethiopian restaurants in Adams-Morgan now (that must be some kind of record outside of Ethiopia), and I'm sorry I can't tell you which of them (if any) was the one I enjoyed so much. Look for the oldest one I guess. :) Dupont Circle (at least back then) was always a big dissapointment, except for a single Greek restaurant right off the circle whose name escapes me, and which probably doesn't even exist anymore. Again, I hate to be general, but I also recall that there was a really good collection of Vietnamese restaurants in Northern Virginia--the Arlington/Crystal City area in particular. Vietnamese food, by and large, would fill your requirement for non-spicy food--although there are a few exceptions in the cuisine. A real local may at least be prompted to remember some places based on these vague old memories, and maybe you'll pick up some new places.
  25. Has anyone had a good Mole Poblano on Pork Chops instead of on chicken? I've only seen this rarely...
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