Author Archives: jiaming

Smorgasburg – Jiaming Liang

Leave a reply

On November 12th ,2016, I went to the Somorgasburg, winter flea and holiday market, in One Hanson Places near Barcleys Center and Atlantic Terminal. It is about 25 indoor Somorgasburg vendors selling food. Also maybe about 70 vintage, antique and other vendors in there. There were a lot of tourists around and some locals coming by to get their lunch.
The only vendor I went to is the “Ramen Burger” because I’m curious and amaze about it. The line is kind of long , but is was just a 10 minute wait. When it is my turn to order, I notice there some different kind of favors like original, teriyaki, cheese and veggie. So I choose the original one and is was $10 only for the burger without any drink. While I’m waiting, I can have a view on how they make my burger. First they fried the ramen to make it crispy. Then add some texture on the ramen bun and a ground beef with sauce added. That take like about 8 minute to make a Ramen Burger. Also there a picture in the front of the table it show a nice Ramen Burger and what else is added inside the burger. I notice there is shoyu sauce and some textures like scallions and arugula. It didn’t mention anything about portion size and calories. When I tasted it, the shoyu sauce and the ground beef gave a delicious sweet taste but the ramen is not crispy and the texture didn’t stand out either. After all I still manage to finish the Burger. I Still would recommend to try it.
Later I went to tour around to see other vendors. There some teriyaki chicken and it smell delicious. It was $6 for four pieces and the pieces are like the size of a chicken nugget but just adding some sauce on it. I think it didn’t worth it and I was kind of full after eating the Ramen Burger. While I was touring around I notice all the vendors handled the food cleanly by wearing gloves while making the foods and change gloves after they touch other things. Also they organize the food by categorize in different tables. Most of the price are very different because they different portion of what they are serving. I think is kind of overprice, however it worth for an experience.
Somorgasburg is so unique because there are multiple vendors in one area. It can have you walking around to decide what to eat for your meal. I think is a place for experience and maybe trying some food that never been heard before. Definitely recommend to visit at least one time.

Field Trip – Jiaming Liang

Leave a reply

On Monday October 17th, 2016, Professor Krondl took us heading to see the Brooklyn Navy Yard rooftop garden. The Brooklyn Navy Yard rooftop garden farming plants have many kind of vegetable like , carrots, tomatoes, lettuces, peppers kale and Chickens. They have soil all the way from Pennsylvania and doesn’t use pesticides, that lead to the crops are healthier and way different crops we purchase from the supermarket. Before the garden was set on the rooftop, most of the water runoff went to the sewage system and now they have water pump up to the water tank to create an automatic watering system. Also the chance for the rooftop to get amount rain and sun in New York City. I learned that how they make farming in a sustainable idea of being able to use resource over again and maintain a good amount of resource. It is totally environmental-friendly.
After reading the article “Supersize”, I feel like other state farming or conventional farming are way different from rooftop farming. The conventional farming show a large area and produce a huge amount of product every years or every months or even every weeks. It has a magnificent quantity result, but the negative side is using pesticides and chemical fertilizers. The reason is farming in a big farm there are large amount of insect in the fields, it is difficult for farmer to deal with them. So some farmer use pesticides to kill insect and also harm the plants. For chemical fertilizers make the product grow fast and quicker, eventually it will make the product may not seem most healthiest. In the rooftop garden is more focus on organic product so there won’t be any pesticides and chemical fertilizers in their farming.
In the United States, President Obama had the most issue on food system and there has to be change. He didn’t make any new act that seem to help the industry grow back up. The sustainability of agriculture is effected, for example the amount of fossil fuels is use during the transportation crops contributed great amount of CO2, cause pollution and global warming. The world need sustainability of ideas that can be environmental-friendly to fix the or minimize the negatives of farming.