I don't get the current ramen fanaticism. I understand it's different than the stuff you buy dry at the bodega, but my association to ramen goes to student days, being broke, cleaning toilets for a living, and eating ramen for every meal.
This is how it goes in Newer York: Lose a one-of-a-kind neighborhood institution, gain one more of the many same.
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wah. genug with the ramen!
i hope LSTD will have a long life in PA. it was one of my regular haunts when i first moved to nyc; i'll miss it desperately as a symbol of the old east village. i still live in the vintage leopard swing coat i got there in 1990. i hope to be wearing it long after the ramen people have departed and the next trendy-trend has taken over -- sliders, bacon candy, maybe vegetable foams shot into your mouth directly from an aeration canister by an obsequious waiter...
It's true, cheap is the new chic. I survived college by eating Ramen noodles. I wonder if these restaurants will sell a bowl for 25 cents a serving? One can dream.
there are just too many of them. if there were 5,000 love saves the day shops in the east village, i'd critique them, too.
Whose paying 99 cents for Ramen? It's 25 cents in Chinatown. 33 cents for the fancy stuff.
Oh, this kind of breaks my heart. I was just watching "Desp seeking Susan " this week - bad movie, but I watch it solely for the old NY that I used to know. I still have some things I got a LSTD back in the 80s. There is so little of my NY left.
The whole east vill/lower east side these days makes me ill. I feel like that old man in "wings of desire" walking through Berlin remembering what used to be where...
Ugh
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