Frozen Yogurt

Four dollars goes a lot further in Norwood, New Jersey than in Manhattan.  Last week on Gothamist, Youngna had a Camera in the Kitchen story about the opening of Pinkberry, a Los Angeles-based frozen yogurt chain, on 32nd Street.  While desperately looking for paper envelopes for CDs, I stopped in a new (okay, they opened eight months ago, but I hadn't been that far down Livingston Ave in a while) frozen yogurt store called Yogomango. 

Like Pinkberry, the yogurt was icy and tart.  The yogurt felt much colder than soft-serve ice cream.  How cold was it?  It was so cold the mango pieces were frozen by the time I got to them.  This was a small, which is much larger than the Pinkberry small, for the same price.  There were several fruits (mango, raspberry, banana) as well as syrups, green tea powder and ginseng for toppings.  You can get a toasted croissant with frozen yogurt.  I don't know why.  A frozen yogurt pizza, a smushed brownie topped with frozen yogurt, topped with fruit slices, is available for fifteen dollars.  More importantly, bingsoo, which is shaved ice, frozen yogurt and either red bean or fresh fruit can be had for $6. 

There is also a colorful array of spoons to choose from.  I selected royal blue because I was on official Columbia University business. 

At the same store where I finally found cd envelopes I also picked up a movie for a dollar. 

"Duel of the Tough", a 1982 Hong Kong martial arts movie starring Jackie Chow.  It was hard to tell if the low-budget movie was a sincere martial arts film or a brilliant parody.  The plot synopsis on the DVD case is a detailed synopsis of the first fifteen minutes of the movie rather than of the entire movie.  Plus it was wrong!  The scene where "Huang is taught the deadly technique called, Magic Kicks!" isn't in the movie.