SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS SEMINAR

Christina Seid will a panelist/speaker at the Verizon Small Business Success Seminar. Verizon Wireless cordially invites you and your business to an exclusive, complimentary symposium designed to inspire and educate.  Network with prominent Chinese business leaders as the unveil secrets to their success.

To RSVP & for more information, visit success808.com or call 888-909-0052

VERIZON SMALL BUSINESS SUCCESS SEMINAR

DECEMBER 7; 6:00-10:00 PM 

JING FONG 

20 ELIZABETH STREET, NYC

ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS CENTRE

The Asian American Arts Centre (AAAC) moved from Chinatown a skip away to the Lower East Side.

AAAC is still located just above Delancey Street near the entrance to the Williamsburg Bridge.

AAAC founded in 1974, engages with artists, students, organizations, & diverse community groups to enable the creative encounter, actualization, and preservation of their knowledge & visions through the arts. In this way the continuum of cultural values & artistic traditions, particularly those of Asia & the West, as they engage each other in local & community arenas, find vitality & renewal.   Also their online services/activities are more active now - the Blog and Facebook, both can be accessed from www.artspiral.org

The AAAC expects to be doing more with Occupy Wall Street, look for it, coming soon.

Of those artists online at www.artasiamerica.org a good selection of their artwork can be seen in large format.

They have a large archive of Asian American Art that is available to the public.  FYI you need to make an appointment for this but Robert is always more than helpful.

ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS CENTRE

111 Norfolk St  1st floor New York, NY 10002 212 233 2154

http://www.artspiral.org/

EAST BROADWAY FRUITS AND VEGGIES

East Broadway is always bustling with grocery shoppers.

Right by the bridge overpass, lies a mecca of fresh vegetables, fruits and other produce.  Sometimes, I wonder why people go to Whole Foods when there is Chinatown produce.  In Chinese culture, food is huge.  We settle for nothing less than the freshest.

A long time ago, my sister was buying an onion in Chinatown.  She took the first onion she saw.  Then a woman said to her, "Aren't you going to examine it a bit more before you buy it?".  My sister looked at the onion and it looked fine but realized how much care people put into buying their groceries in the community.

At local fruit and vegetable vendors you will often find things that are unavailable at your local grocery.  Now in season are durians, pomellos, and persimmons.  The prices here are among the least expensive in the city.

EAST BROADWAY FRUIT AND VEGETABLE VENDORS

YUDAN TO GO

Yu dan (fish balls) on skewers are the perfect snack on a cold day.

Hong Kong Station has an outside stand with people serving skewers of yummy yudan goodness~!  My lil bro loves these things so much that he ate 5 sticks worth!  Each stick will only run you $2 bucks!

The aroma fills the block and it is so tempting to buy every time I walk by.  It is so convenient because you don't even need to go inside to buy them.

In a bad economy, you can find delicious, inexpensive food when you're on the go in Chinatown.

HONG KONG STATION

45 BAYARD STREET

(212) 233-0288

YARN SHOP

I fell in love with this new yarn shop in Elizabeth Center...

This place reminded me of Knitty City on the West Side.  It's a specialty shop with a variety of yarns in different textures and colors.

Now that the cold spell is about to hit; it's a good time to invest in knitting a new scarf.  All my friends are also having babies so it would be good time for me to break out the knitting needles for some baby booties!

I love these new niche shops popping up in Elizabeth Center.    It's reflective of how trendy the Chinatown neighborhood is becoming.

ELIZABETH CENTER

ELIZABETH STREET (BTW BAYARD & BOWERY)