#Wo hop kitchen menu series#

“What the f.k is there to be happy about. “Yeah I love seeing that too,” Gerry said with glee. And best of all, you start seeing dead Christmas trees on the street signaling the end of the holiday nightmare.” “You know what I look forward to most about the holidays,” I said. The Yankees’ play made it a happy time at the happiest of hours and by 7:30 we were confident enough with the Yankee’s comfortably leading to exit the bar and head to Noodle Village. While Gerry and Mike from Yonkers sipped Redemption Rye, I settled on cold beer as my viewing beverage of choice. The bar, Whiskey Tavern, was a few blocks from Noodle Village, which, on Mott Street, was a few doors from the Chinatown legend of our collective youths: Wo Hop ( Obsession Confession). “I do not want to deal with the nyc traffic and Yankee traffic…”Īll of us tried to convince him he could make it to the restaurant in plenty of time or meet us at the bar whether he drove or took the train, but once Eugene makes up his mind about something, there’s not much even the prospect of a village of Chinese noodles can do to change it. “I will not be going,” he wrote the next day. Eugene, however, possibly still stewing from the early exit his Red Sox made was not happy. Gerry, Mike from Yonkers and Zio liked the idea. “Why don’t we meet at a bar in Chinatown, watch the game, see where we are by 7:30 and if the game is still in doubt, stay at the bar and go eat after the game,” I suggested. “We got an important game tomorrow.” He pleaded to reschedule either the next day when there was no game or the following week, but with each suggestion, someone had to drop out.

“Time to reschedule,” Gerry wrote in an urgent email once the Yankee schedule was confirmed. We were to meet in Chinatown at a place chosen by me called Noodle Village at 7:30.

The fifth game of the knotted American League Championship Series was to be played at 5. The Yankee fans among us, Zio, Gerry, and me were in a quandary. We had scheduled our monthly food group well in advance.

#Wo hop kitchen menu series#