Comments on: Sic transit gloria mundi http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84318 Dispatches from America's first suburb Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: AEBhttp://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84318/comment-page-1#comment-565839 Sat, 22 Jul 2017 00:22:00 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=84318#comment-565839 Now fixed. I go there, too.

]]> By: Andrew Porterhttp://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84318/comment-page-1#comment-565838 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 22:26:00 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=84318#comment-565838 That’s “Fortune House,” although with part of the sign broken off, I think of it as “Torture House.”

]]> By: AEBhttp://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/84318/comment-page-1#comment-565836 Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:13:00 +0000 http://brooklynheightsblog.com/?p=84318#comment-565836 It’s a wonder that Great Wall (which should have been called Hole-In-the-Wall) survived as long as it did. Whatever its merits, which to me were few, as one could get better bad Chinese food a block or so south, at Fortune Garden, it did bring a bit of Olde Chinatown to the Heights.

Ah, the small of overused cooking oil; the eat-in amenity of what was, after all, a take-out joint; the dubious cleanliness even after an inspection A was awarded. It was, finally…authentic. And authenticity is something one doesn’t always find in our nabe, unless one counts authentic money-grubbing, see Gougestedes.

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