Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is a cultural hub with many Russian speaking people. There are so many fresh markets and pharmacies, and the city life is very different from the suburbs we are used to. The restaurant we visited had so many authentic meals, it was hard to pick which...
Chicken Kyiv Review

Chicken Kyiv Review

At Tatiana’s restaurant, I ordered Chicken Kyiv. The dish is essentially a chicken breast that has been rolled into a cylinder that has melted butter inside. The chicken is then breaded and fried. As with many of the other dishes at the restaurant, dill was the...
Report on the Myanmar Crisis

Report on the Myanmar Crisis

Myanmar has never quite managed to make its affairs stick around the global stage long enough to gain momentum. Given its checkered history since being released from British imperialistic rule, it’s almost too easy to overlook the unrest that plagues the...
Russian Candies

Russian Candies

Something that I noticed is that a lot of the assorted candies were chocolate-based sweets and had some sort of crunchy element within a praline-like center. The crunch came from nuts or wafer bits. One of the wrapped sweets that we tried tasted like a caramel fudge...
Shoti Puri

Shoti Puri

Shoti Puri is a traditional Georgian bread. It’s cooked in a circular clay oven called a tone and is stretched to be a baton-like shape. When we went to Brighton Beach, we had some of this bread at Berikoni Georgian Bakery. The bread is quite flat and has a...