Fried Chicken! in NYC

Courtesy of Grubstreet on NYmag

I can't stop drooling over the Momofuku Noodle Bar Fried Chicken. For $100, you and up to 7 other friends get two chickens, one fried Southern style, the other Korean style. This plus all the accompanying delights have brought me an unnecessary lust to go to New York.

Apparently all three Momo chefs have been eating and testing fried chicken non-stop for the past month in order to get this recipe right. According to NYmag, David Chang has said that "What you're trying to do is separate the skin from the meat and almost create a pomme souflée effect. You want the skin to be super-crisp and crunchy. In a way, it protects the meat while it's cooking."

I. can't. stop. drooling. Go here for more.

Since I can't "do Earth"...

My friend has just begun an around-the-world trip with friends, I am jealous so I will do the same but in photos...(not the same). What is remarkable about these photos is that I took them.
This is in Abu Dhabi. It is a view of the Arabian Sea from Emirates Palace, the hotel that cost $3 Billion to build. All that glitters is, in fact, 24k gold.

A view of the ocean at the Cape of Good Hope, Capetown, South Africa.

Some giraffes. This is not the Animal Kingdom at Disney. Safari, SA.


Cape Point, South Africa

Florence, Italy

Hamburg at night, Germany

Burj al Arab at dusk, Dubai, UAE

Fjords in Oslo, Norway

Prague, Czech Republic

Bund, Shanghai, China

Mendoza, Argentina

From the Met, NYC, USA, USA, USA