Din Tai Mars 2112
Me: (laughing)
Her: What’s so funny?
Me: I just read this woman in her 20s writing about online dating and meeting men that married and divorced. She wrote, “It’s a trip when you go on a date with a divorced person and think, ‘Did you just lap me?'”
Decades ago, I worked a lot in NYC clubs – which is all I’ll say on the matter – and one such club I worked at was Mars 2112.
It was a Mars/space-themed restaurant that was enormous at 33,000 SF.
HUGE is an understatement.
It opened in 1998 and closed (ironically) in 2012.
Well, Din Tai Fung took over a chunk of that space and, despite it not being the entire space, man did it feel huge.
If you aren’t familiar with Din Tai Fung, it’s a major upscale Taiwanese restaurant chain with 170 locations worldwide with the Manhattan one as one of their flagships.
The main picture of this entry is just of its staff making dumplings. That’s a lotta dumplings, man.
Anywho, earlier last week, one of the Firecracker’s closest friends, the Liberian, was in town with her husband.
They have a cool story in that they sold off their home and most of their possessions here and bought a villa in Spain where they’re living their best lives.
The one negative is that they’re not getting the level of quality Chinese food they were getting when they were here in NYC.
So, that’s how we ended up at Din Tai Fung.
I’d actually been to the one in Taiwan before but that was it, and decades ago. So having it was a treat.
The food was pretty killer, as I expected, if not super carb-y, as I also expected.
Her: Carbs aren’t that bad.
Me: I gotta disagree – one in three teens here are prediabetic.
Anywho, it was weird being back in that space because it felt familiar yet very different.
On a related note, I should mention that the gym I go now also used to be a club that I also worked at.
Living in NYC your whole life means that things start to make laps in your life.
Wonder what these joints will be like in another few years.
Location: a street fair with an angel and her kid
Mood: full
Music: “Lonely or alone?” Way to Mars by Somersault & Xavier Naidoo (can’t find it anywhere)
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