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Know Your Cheesecake

Tonight i attended the holiday party at A/P/A & Africana Studies at NYU. Besides catching up with long lost friends and community members, the food was in abundance! A/P/A served a mix of various diverse Asian dishes while Africana had soul and Caribbean ones. I liked the fresh papaya salad (although it could've been much hotter), the tofu coconut curry and the greens the most. Chicken eaters enjoyed both blackened and fried chicken and be enjoyed maki rolls as well.

be and glo left early to play DnD at the clubhouse, but made a quick stop at Cold Stone Creamery first. After the Great Wimp Out of 04, i don't think i could even eat a "Like It" size -- it's just too much ice cream. I don't even like ice cream that much! Now Italian ice, that's another matter.

Later on i met up with P, Ishle, L & M at La Lanterna in the West Village. Our table was the nice one in front of the fireplace! After gorging at the party i wasn't hungry for dinner so i only had hot chocolate. It was milky and slightly bitter; not much sugar was added at all, and layered with froth. It was good for what it was, but i prefer that serious-melted-chocolate-bar kind. I would go to La Lanterna again to try the food.

The subject of cheesecake was a recurring matter. I'm not particularly fond of cheesecake, especially that CREAM CHEESE kind where you might as well take a bite out of a Philly cream cheese packet. I will agree though, that the best cheesecake is at Junior's on Flatbush in Brooklyn. When you drive by, there's sometimes major traffic due to all the double-parked cars, people running in for a cake, probably tempted by sudden urges while passing those flashing lights. I used to go there many years ago and have black forest cake, coffee and cigarettes. If you go for dinner you're automatically served a side of beets with your meal. Once P ordered a hamburger and i swear it was 5" tall, she could barely take a complete bite of it. But back to the cheesecake -- as a non-cheesecaker i must say that the Junior's one was very tasty. You gotta love a place that mentions Bill Clinton on the menu; i'm sure he knows his cheesecake.

posted by beXn @ 3:35 AM