Year of the Sugar LumpIf you’re not into sampling Bret and Jemain’s balls, you can try the beef variety at Wing Shoon Seafood Restaurant.
ByDaniel Maurer
The New York Diet
Comedian Eugene Mirman Starts His Days With SoupYou’ve probably seen self-described absurdist nightclub comedian Eugene Mirman in Flight of the Conchords, opening for bands like Modest Mouse, or in hilarious online shorts like the one in which he plays a mustached Russian émigré having his first, ill-fated encounter with vegetable wonton soup. In actuality, Mirman has for several years lived and dined in Park Slope — where he’s at work on a book of fake advice, The Will to Whatevs, and a documentary about returning to his birthplace, Russia — and he’s such a fan of soups that he fixes them for breakfast. As he gears up to record a Comedy Central special that will air in the winter, we asked him what else he’s been noshing on.
