Curry-Ya

Chris's been here before. I guess it's easy to find a good restaurant when it's right next to your favorite ramen shop:
Rai Rai Ken
214 E. 10th Street at 2nd Ave
212-477-7030

I have tried Curry-Ya's curry before when Chris brought some home. But eating there is so much better. I have to say, Japanese curry is my favorite curry, so I may be a bit biased, but I think Curry-Ya has the best curry in town.

They also have vegetable curry, which was a big a plus!!!


Curry-Ya
214 E 10th St
New York, NY 10003
(866) 602-8779

Freemans Restaurant

Being a vegetarian day #8... (we are eating eggs and cheese)

Life hasn't been that bad so far and we are learning to eat at restaurants as vegetarians. Chris used to be a vegetarian for 7 years and his sister, Vanessa, is still vegetarian. We have other friends that are vegetarians and I give them so much credit. I never knew how hard is to be one. I won't share boring stories that I have been experiencing, but the toughest time is to find something at restaurants.

This great culinary city looks down upon vegetarians.
It's hard to find vegetarian options. I don't expect every restaurants to accommodate, but I expect people to have a little bit of respect.

One good thing that I noticed is that I started reading labels. I don't read calories, but I read ingredients.

Freemans Restaurant was very accommodating. I guess brunch is little easier since we are dairy eating vegetarians. My dish originally came with bacon and they made it without bacon.



Freemans Restaurant
End of Freeman Alley
New York, NY 10002
(212) 420-0012
http://www.freemansrestaurant.com/

The Cove

There are very few movies or documentaries that have changed my life.
Even some movies or documentaries that have moved me tremendously are easily forgotten after a month or a year.

However, after watching the Cove, I have decided to change my life style and tell others about it. The Cove is about a fishing village in Japan called Taiji. This fishing village kills dolphins. They sell a few to aquariums around the world as show dolphins. Then the rest is killed and meat is sold disguised as whale meat, which is a delicacy in Japan. The issue is not only the fact that 230,000 dolphins are killed a year, but also meat with high concentration of mercury is sold.

This movie not only brought the attention of over fishing but also made me think of factory farming, which I have been against for a long time.

We are not only polluting the earth, but also we are eating fish that live the water that we polluted. However, the bigger issue is that we are eating too much of everything. We are eating too much fish and meat. To accommodate our appetite, we had to invent factory farming and we are eating sick animals that are barely alive with hormones and antibiotics. Let me tell you, eating meat does more harm to environment than driving your SUV's. Yes, it is true...

After watching the Cove, I lasted 10 days without any meat and seafood, even fish sauce and dashi. (Update: After those 10 days, we have decided to eat meat or seafood one day a week.
OK, we couldn't give up eggs, cheese, or dashi)

We are feeling great that we are doing something about global warming and we actually feel great. We are losing weight too.

So what's greater than having healthy diet and do something good for environment at the same time. I urge you to try it - eating meat one day a week. Or if that's too much for you, just reduce the amount of time. Instead of eating meat once a day, eat eat once every other day.

I gurantee that you will feel much better.
And of course, I don't have tell you about not eating fast food.





http://www.thecovemovie.com/