In the last year, Singapore has opened two integrated resorts with casinos, a number of boutique hotels and countless restaurants and clubs.
It has become China's favorite out-of-home dining, sold in countless restaurants that often advertise its trademark chile heat.
Thousands of Secret Service agents elbowing their way through 36 hotels and countless restaurants in pursuit of 245 "protectees," from President Clinton to Prime Minister Ionatana Ionatana of Tuvalu.
But very often, they're bound for cafes, meyhanes (think of them as Turkish tapas bars, serving small plates, wine, beer and raki) or any of the countless restaurants that edge the waterfront and sidewalks.
While countless restaurants copied his style, he had a direct hand in two others: Gemma, a stylish trattoria he designed at the Bowery Hotel, and Peels, his haute country outpost down the block on the Bowery.
Within a few miles of where I sit, I can find management consultancies, banks, internet start ups, hedge funds, car-dealerships, estate agents, newspapers, radio stations, countless restaurants, television companies, even a couple of gin distilleries.
WHILE the nation's restaurants and food lovers have responded to the destruction in New Orleans with plans for benefits and job banks, information about the condition of the city's countless restaurants remains scarce.
I had come to think of Sichuan as a sometimes hot and spicy variation of generic Chinese cooking, done in countless restaurants in New York, but meal after meal in China brought home what a distinctive cuisine it is.
Glossy brick walls and plate-glass storefronts are the modular components for countless restaurants, and without a single atmospheric cue, you can barely tell whether you are sitting down for corn bread, corned beef or a pedicure.
