Bun -- Vietnamese vermicelli noodle based dishes (both cold and hot) --usually take a back seat to the more popular pho noodles in the United States. But, at Michael “Bao” Huynh’s new restaurant collaboration with Warren Cuccurello, Bun Soho, bun are the show-stoppers on a menu that also offers small plates rife with seafood dishes and plenty of pork belly. Dishes are $12 and under—even for duck hearts and tongue confit — and co-chef... more ›

Bun: Chef Michael Bao Huynh and his wife, Thao Nguyen, who has amazing noodle preparation expertise, have opened this Vietnamese rice-noodle and small-plate spot in SoHo. Although he has gotten some financial backing from Warren Cuccurullo, formerly of Missing Persons and Duran Duran, Huynh designed the designed the 45-seat space himself. The menu is affordable, with a cap at around $12, and features four varieties of pho, among other dishes. 143 Grand Street, near Lafayette Street, 212-431-7999. more ›

This week's New York Mag runs down some of this season's upcoming restaurant openings -- better start planning now. We've already given you the scoop on Will Goldfarb's Picnick and Peter Hoffman's Back Forty, due in September and October respectively, but we're looking forward to some of the other spots highlighted by Rob and Robin, especially noodle shop Bun, from Mai House chef Michael Huynh and his wife, Thao Nguyen, and El Quinto Pino, from the Tia Pol gang. more ›

A reader sent us this horrible but all-too-familiar story:

I was on the 7 train riding from Flushing Main Street when a man sat across from me (a few stops before 82nd street Jackson Heights he got on) with a newspaper on his lap pretending to be sleeping. I glanced over and to my horror all his goods were in plain view. I did not react and I pulled out my cell phone and took a picture of him. He got really nervous and was rustling around; I then proceeded to call 911 as I was still sitting across from him and was giving a description of him as I was looking right at him. He got nervous and got off at the next stop which was 82nd Street-Jackson Heights. more ›

Hello, cellphone vigilantism! more ›

To be an undercover cop! The NYPD conducted a special sting - "Operation Exposure" - to find subway pervs and over the two week period, over 13 people were arrested for "rubbing, grabbing and flashing women." The NYPD Transit Bureau chief said subway pervery is "a heavy quality of life crime," and that riders were thankful when the men were arrested. A team of four female undercover officers were "dressed as any other woman on the subway" and nabbed jerks for "forcible touching" and "public lewdness." (There was also a grand larceny arrest.) One woman said, "It happens a lot but women don't tell anyone. It's about time they did something about it because there's a lot of perverts around." Word. And the Post has the best lede: "Subway gropers, beware - next time you cop a feel, you might be feeling a cop." more ›

Serial subway flasher and rax food restaurateur Dan Hoyt was sentenced to 2 years probation plus counseling in the case of his subway pleasuring that was captured by a cameraphone last August. Hoyt apologized for his actions, and it turns out he's flashed people four other times between 2004 and 2005. Eep. However, Thao Nguyn, who snapped the photograph, was deeply unimpressed with Hoyt's remarks to New York magazine, where he said some women would be turned on by what he did and want to date him. Nguyen was one of the women marching outside of the courtroom against Hoyt; Hollaback NYC founder Lauren Spees told the AP that Nguyen "is like the Rosa Parks of street harassment." more ›

Idiots really need to be told not to talk to the press. more ›

The raw-food restaurant owner who was photographed pleasuring himself on a subway car last August pleaded guilty to public lewdness charges. Dan Hoyt, who was arrested in 1994 for public lewdness, will get two years of probation and must see a psychiatrist once a week. His laywer says that Hoyt is remorseful for his actions and realizes he has a problem (no kidding!), also adding that Hoyt is consulting in Japan about healthy foods (additional sympathy plea). Gothamist supposes probation is an appropriate sentence, but what we're more upset about is how so many people do disgusting things on the train and they aren't punished - where's the police handing out summons for those things? more ›

," much to the disgust of Thao Nguyen who took the photograph of Hoyt being a jerk in the subway. She told the Daily News, "Perhaps his smug attitude and total lack of remorse may influence the judge's sentence? If there's ever been an example of a guy who deserves the full three-month prison sentence, he's it." Also during the trial, he "smiled and yawned through the brief hearing, and sported a self-satisfied look as he left the courthouse." Interestingly enough, his lawyer claimed Hoyt turned himself in immediately, but the DA's office reminded the court that he refused to meet with the police for a few days. The $5,000 bail was posted by Hoyt's ex-wife and co-owner of raw food restaurants Quintessence. more ›

Dan Hoyt, the East Village man suspected of masturbating on the subway only to have a rider cameraphone his picture and put it online which then made him a front page story on the Daily News, surrendered to the police yesterday. However, he claimed his innocence saying, "I didn't do anything," as he was paraded out in Columbus Circle. When Gothamist watched the local news coverage of this, it looked as though he was leaving the Columbus Circle subway station, making us wonder if someone else spotted him underground, but he was actually just on his way to Central Booking. Four women picked Hoyt out of lineups as being, as the Post calls him, the "self-touching rider," and he was charged with four counts of public lewdness. Thao Nguyen, who took the photograph that launched dozens of complaints about Hoyt, says she hopes he gets jail while employees at Quintessence, the restaurant he co-owns, had no comment. Hoyt's previous public lewdness arrest resulted in community service. more ›

The tabloids report that the main suspect in the Flickred-subway-perv-incident might have a history of public lewdness. In 1994, Dan Hoyt, raw food restaurateur, was arrested for public lewdness "after he unzipped and flashed a victim" at the 8th Street N station. Yesterday, the police were searching for Hoyt, who did not come in to discuss the matter as promised. Since Thao Nguyen's picture made the Internet and the cover of the Daily News, five other women have accused Hoyt (or a man who looks A LOT like Hoyt) of similar acts. more ›

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