Food: Kampuchea
Oddly the only Cambodian restaurant in Manhattan, this laid-back LES spot features specialties like shrimp crepes, sweet basil oxtail stew, pork meatball sandwiches, and Monkfish Skewers, plus a full bar and 75 wines. Or maybe there have been Cambodian restaurants, and Kissinger just insisted they were Vietnamese?
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Blip features 30 artists from around the world, all determined to make surprisingly good music using NES's, Game Boys, and other videogame consoles. If you've always dreamed of hearing "cinematic, densely layered rock music...delivered by a Nintendo sound chip instead of actual people", this fest will uplift the circuits that long ago replaced your soul.
The Swedes have taught us that wonderful things can come with horrible names, like the hot, brandy-spiked mulled wine glögg. Cook up a batch, and spend a winter's day forgetting how you had your heart broken by a perky blond named Günhilda.
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