Word: tofu
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...pillars. Visitors relax or chat on its benches. To Koreans, the torch-shaped pillars are sacred: they once were placed in front of royal tombs to symbolize the King's power. Ten kilometers away, granite sculptures of Korean scholars line a road that leads to the entrance of a tofu restaurant. Two years ago when curator Jang visited, he found the eatery had planted Japanese flags in front of each sculpture. He was incensed. "The truth is, I wanted to kill them," he says. "Stealing in the first place is bad, but when you take something and misuse...
...cabinet is stacked high with cans of tomato paste, tuna fish, and other non-perishables. If my dad has been to the natural foods co-op recently, there may be a bag of “chunks of energy” that seem to be made entirely of congealed tofu and birdseed...
...bankrupt. While Yong Xin is bent on shellacking Shaolin into tidy anachronism, Yan Ming wants to punch up its traditions?and himself?to suit the realities of 21st century New York City. He openly eschews the usual trappings of Buddhist piety: he eats beef (which he has dubbed "American tofu"), drinks beer ("special water"), wine ("French special water") and, whenever possible, champagne ("very special French water"). He lives with his girlfriend and their 19-month-old son. He models. He acts in movies. He hobnobs with celebrities. He wears Sundance Film Festival T shirts under his robes, trades his puttees...
...large, open-fronted premises that spill onto the sidewalk at 313 Maha Chai next to the Esso gas station, the Thip Samai Restaurant only serves the quintessential national dish phad Thai (fried noodles, tofu, bean sprouts), which it elevates from ordinary vegetarian staple to high art. The house specialty is a $1.35 version that comes wrapped in an omelette. For an extra $1.35, the deluxe sawng kreung comes with shredded green mango, crab, dried squid, and four large, fresh prawns...
...that I'd rather not do it somewhere that's all glitzy and forced romantic, like Tahiti or Scores, places that don't represent our real life together, which is actually full of tedium and drudgery, though a really pleasant tedium and drudgery. So I made her a big tofu dinner in our studio apartment. Then I woke her up at 1:30 a.m. and told her that over the past six months, I've been tearing up over Friends episodes about marriage and the ending of What Women Want. I told her that my life was perfect and that...