James’s Blog

Jim alerted me to this Tribune article about little-known spots in Chinatown. The summary:

• Alleged late night (after 10pm) cheap eats: Triple Crown, Mountain View and Happy Chef.
• The article goes into a deep discussion about Saint’s Alp, but everybody who knows me knows about that place already.
• Sunday Cafe, located at the basement of Three Happiness Restaurant, has karaoke. Private room is $25 an hour.
• Q-Spot is the place to play some pool. $6 for half an hour.

This reminds me that I hear there’s a vegetarian restaurant in Chinatown, but a quick search only turned up this place called Asian Cafe, which doesn’t have any other reviews anywhere. It’s time to do some legwork.

What’s with the theme of three? Someone ought to open a restaurant in Chinatown and name it Ménage à Trois. Three Happiness indeed.

What a relief.

Jim told me about a Chinese-to-English translation plugin: When you highlight a bunch of Chinese characters, the plugin provides instant translation and pronounciation of the characters. Works for both simplified and traditional characters. This is what the result looks like on a previous blog entry.

The plugin only works in Mozilla Firefox. It doesn’t look like they have a tool like this in Opera.

I discovered that jamestung.com is already at 2nd place when one googles my name. Funny I thought, because non-university sites supposedly don’t get indexed very quickly. I don’t particularly feel like having my future students and college administrator bosses read my blog, so I’m going to take off the Blog link at the homepage. Anyone who wishes to read the blog can still type in the link or bookmark it.