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RESTAURANTS: Big Wong's, 67 Mott Street, between Bayard and Canal Streets (964-0540): The name means big prosperity, though that's the last thing you'd expect this Chinatown eatery to be called. Almost everything on the menu costs under $5, and patrons eat cafeteria-style in a dense, tantalizing cloud of odors from the bustling kitchen. The soy sauce chicken ($5) and the barbecued spare ribs ($3) are as good as any in Chinatown...
...fedora--the stuff of Carol Burnett sketches. But Blanchard, a trumpet player and film composer himself, finds new beauty and wit in the originals, fashioning mini-suites from the above-mentioned scores (and others) that shift between cinematic lushness and small-group drive. Blanchard's bruised, lyrical solo on Chinatown is a highlight--a freshly heard cry in the night...
...Chinatown...
...good. Delicious, inexpensive Malaysian cuisine in Chinatown. Plates piled with beef rendang or giant coconut shrimp and festive glasses of ABC, a drink of shaved ice and red beans. please every diner in the room...
Make no mistake, that regret is virtually guaranteed. A semester of watching "Chinatown" and deconstructing L.A. billboards in "Cityscapes" left me intellectually famished, and at the time I didn't know exactly what I had deprived myself of. Now, a few months away from a graduation, I look back on that course and others with regret and vainly hope for more time to discover game theory or Thucydides...