A tribute to NY’s Chinatown, land of 80-cent red bean puffs, overpriced bubble tea and Net cafés full of young rowdies playing Counterstrike or powder puff racing for $2 an hour.
Taro root bun:

Tea strainer at the local, friendly, lesbian-run megacafé:

The base for Tibetan prayer wheels in Central Square, Cambridge, say ‘dream’ in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Gujarati. Sometimes I have to pinch myself to make sure it’s not Berkeley: