This week, Counter Culture settles into Little Pepper, a relocated Sichuan classic now found in College Point, just north of Flushing. In addition to Sichuan, the menu features other regional cuisines from northern China, a bit of Hunanese, and a few Cantonese dishes. You can use this versatility to your advantage when ordering, as in the above selection.

Read the full review here.

This week, Counter Culture scrambles in to Egg spinoff Parish Hall, where the seasonal menu--much of it sourced upstate--is a delight. Here are the five dishes that impressed me most, which I'd love to eat again and again. Read the full review here.

This week, Counter Culture takes a chance on Genting Palace, a new casino restaurant anomalously located in Ozone Park's abject Aqueduct Racetrack. Mainly in a Cantonese vein, the food paid off handsomely, and here are the five dishes my friends and I liked the most. See full review here.

This week, Counter Culture crawls into Florencia 13, one of New York's only Cal-Mex gastronomic resources and a haven for Californians. (I would link to the piece, except it's not going up for a few hours, and I'm about to hop on a plane to Austin and Kansas City for an eight-day barbecue binge.) Here are my munching recommendations. You New Yorkers are invited to check it out, too.

The juried craft show called BUST Magazine Craftacular and Food Fair was held today from 11 a.m. till 7 p.m. on Mercer Street in Soho. Over 100 vendors took part. Unfortunately, there was little food in evidence to justify the last three words in the title.

Yesterday, Counter Culture covered Zero Otto Nove, a pair of southern Italian twins, one in the Bronx, the other in Manhattan. That piece had to be moved up a week because the restaurant that was the subject of the scheduled review had closed only a few days earlier. That restaurant was Minzhongle, one of Flushing's foremost (and most interesting) northern Chinese restaurants.

There's more to the Internet than food blogs (except this one, of course). If you only read recipes and ogled food porn, you'd miss out on fantastic videos like the ones from MVPleez -- their newest opus to ramps, starring Harold Dieterle and Jimmy Bradley, is one to waste a few minutes on. And how could you miss the crazy food and fashion mashups that people came up with this week?

For example: these pants. Posted a few days ago by Perez Hilton, these pants resemble the popular harem style worn by yogis and Soho residents. But sit down cross-legged and they double as a table. Would you picnic with these Pic Nic pants?

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This week Counter Culture slides into Brooklyn Wok Shop, where a mainly Cantonese menu is offered at an elevated price in a room decorated with soup bowls. The review isn't too kind to the spot, but, nevertheless, several good dishes are identified. Here are five of them, in order of increasing desirability.

On Saturday, the Bell House hosted the second annual Beer for Beasts, a charity event jointly sponsored by Brooklyn's Sixpoint Brewery and Boston's Beer Advocate. The event benefited the Humane Society of New York. Last year, $28,000 was raised for the charity. Food was provided for attendees via a series of familiar food trucks parked outside.