A Miso-Glazed Pan-Roasted Smoked Chilean Sea Bass dish is displayed at China Live restaurant and bar in San Francisco. Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP
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The Lede: Good morning. Upscale Chinese American restaurants, from San Francisco to New York City, have sprung up in recent years, garnering buzz with their refined tasting menus that soar far beyond Chinese takeout-food staples.
The Rundown
East New York man sentenced for fatal Downtown Brooklyn crash: An East New York man has been sentenced for causing a fatal crash in Downtown Brooklyn after driving over 60 mph, running three red lights and slamming into another vehicle, killing a 21-year-old woman and injuring three others.
Chinese American restaurants question why Chinese cuisine can’t get the chef’s table treatment: Many restaurants will put special spins on traditional Lunar New Year dishes for the Year of the Fire Horse, which started Tuesday.
Authorities confiscate $1.4M worth of weed in Brooklyn bust: A Jan. 30 raid on an illegal cannabis dispensary set up right next door to a children’s daycare center in Prospect Lefferts Gardens yielded over 220 pounds of marijuana
Proposed state ban on local ICE agreements would expire in 2029: Hochul’s program bill would prohibit so-called 287(g) agreements between local law enforcement and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but would repeal the ban on July 1, 2029, a few months after a new presidential administration would take office.
City to resume sweeps of homeless camps: City Hall had paused the forced removals on Jan. 1, saying that the practice was not effective at moving people into shelters.
Shyne returns to Brooklyn for 25th anniversary concert at Kings Theatre: Rapper Shyne, now working in Belize as a lawmaker, returns to Brooklyn — where he was raised — for his first headlining show in years.
Join the club: ‘Heated Rivalry’ is making queer hockey New York’s hottest sport: The Pride Hockey Alliance has been bringing “hot queer friends” together for years before the buzziest show on ice. (THE CITY)
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LONDON — Competitors participate in a traditional pancake race by livery companies at the Guildhall. Photo: Kin Cheung/AP
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READ: "ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground" (The Verge)
EAT: Happy Lunar New Year! Here are the 23 best restaurants in Chinatown. (Eater)
CARTOON: Moonlighting as an Olympic curler. (The New Yorker)
LIVE: "Brooklyn developers flooding 7 neighborhoods with new rentals — as many locals remain priced out of homeownership" (New York Post)
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German actress Diane Kruger graces the latest cover of Elle España.
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"Andrew ‘pushed through’ appointment of Epstein’s fixer to Windsor trust" (The Times)
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Egor Dёmin’s ‘star’ rises in Los Angeles (Brooklyn Eagle)
Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Smokey Robinson
Oscar-winning actor Benicio del Toro
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“The Joy Luck Club” author Amy Tan
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