A tip reporting a possible heroin deal last week resulted in the arrests of a 51-year-old New Haven man and his 26-year-old son.
Crime Stopper tip leads to gun seizure in Stamford
STAMFORD — Police say a Crime Stoppers tip led to the arrest of a city man with an illegal gun and a stash of credit cards.
Beautifying Our Neighborhood with Keep America Beautiful
On Tuesday June 20th, Keep America Beautiful (KAB) partnered with the East Side Partnership to assist us in cleaning up our neighborhood. Over sixty volunteers from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Day Pitney, Mastercard, Plow Share Group, Oberland Marketing, and ReGenerating Solutions participated. Volunteers were divided into four groups stationed at different locations throughout the East Side.
One group painted a vibrant mural on the knee wall leading to the entrance to the Children’s Learning Center on Maple Avenue and William Street. The mural is a landscape with homes and children playing among trees and flowers. There, they also planted a weeping cherry tree. A thunder cloud plum tree was also planted next to the I-95 Lockwood Avenue Underpass.
Two other groups mulched both the sculpture garden next to the railroad underpass and the island at Exit 9. They also filled a dumpster provided by the City with dead tree limbs dragged from the sides of the railroad beds.
The fourth group painted over graffiti under the I-95 underpasses.
The East Side Partnership wants to give special thanks to KAB President and CEO Helen Lowman, Senior Vice President and Marketing and Communications Mike Rosen, Senior Director of Program Operations Jason Smith, Director of Development and Individual Giving and Foundations Sara Brody, and Board of Directors and Executive Committee member Tom Tamoney. These five individuals helped create an impactful, collaborative event to give back to the residents of the East Side. KAB contributed by supplying mulch, trees and painting materials for the event. ESP would also like to acknowledge Stamford’s Supervisor of Recycling and Sanitation Tom Colleluori for donating a dumpster.
All the hard work could not have been done without the help of our volunteers. Beautifying the neighborhood helps create a friendlier, safer environment for all residents.
Maya Ponzini East Side Partnership
Blue Ginger: New Asian Fusion Restaurant Serves East Side with Authentic Flavors
Blue Ginger, a popular pan-Asian restaurant in Shippan area, moved to East Main St. last month. Owner Kenny Sun and his wife Tiffany Tian hope to sell traditional home-style Chinese food with fresh and healthy ingredients, expanding typical Chinese offerings that are not found at every street corner.
Their kitchen is capable of cooking more than 130 Chinese, Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese dishes. The Sushi chef can present an expansive list of classic rolls, Sashimi and platters. They have introduced more authentic regional cuisines of China to their customers since the grand opening of their 2,500-square-foot storefront at 1132 East Main St (at the shopping plaza across from Interstate 95 Exit 9).
Sushi Chef Tony Gao
“There are eight major regional cuisines in China including Cantonese, Szechuan, Hunan, Shangdong styles. They are all delicious,” Sun said. “Every city and every town has so many dishes you must try.”
Before Blue Ginger moved to East Main St., Sun managed the business for three years on Elm St. He took it over from a Taiwanese couple that was ready to retire. The couple also passed on the recipes to Sun as a gift.
One of Sun’s personal favorites is the Taiwanese stewed noodle soup. The dish comes with two options: Udon or Taiwanese thin noodles. Both are served in generous portions. The fine noodles are topped with soy braised beef shank, stir-fried bok choy and pickled mustard greens. The vegetables add a nice contrast to the meaty broth in terms of color and flavor.
Taiwanese Beef Stewed Noodle Soup
“It’s getting more popular among American customers,” said Sun, who shops twice a week to get the tender beef shanks from a Flushing Asian market. “They see Chinese order it then try for themselves and find they love it.”
Even red-meat lovers would be drawn to the roast Peking duck. The duck is stuffed with ginger, scallion and other flavorful seasonings while roasted and fanned for ten hours. The skin comes out delicious and crispy, but the meat stays tender and juicy. The tradition is to wrap the meat up with thin slices of cucumber and scallion and sweet bean sauce, a must-have for eating Peking duck.
The chicken gyoza, or Japanese chicken dumplings, is one of their best selling appetizers. The savory Japanese-style dumplings are steamed then pan-fried until they get toasty brown on one side. The thin wrappers are filled with minced chicken and vegetables. They are often ordered in large quantities for parties, Sun said.
Sun also brought his hometown flavors into the beef scallion pancake rolls. He created the recipe based on the memory of a street snack that he always loved to eat growing up in Qingdao, China. Fresh scallions, steamed asparagus and thick, tender slices of beef are rolled in the crispy and chewy pancakes.
Beef Scallion Pancake Rolls
Good, fresh food takes time to prepare, Sun said.
“Our regular customers know that our fried eggrolls take a few more minutes to get because they are not precooked,” Sun said. “We fry them when we get the order. But they’re definitely worth the wait.”
Sun strives to present authentic Asian food with fresh ingredients that taste like home.