peterkim blog

New York City is now my second favorite city in the US after Chicago. I love cities. I love the urban life.

We did lots of eating.

Friday night
- pizza in west village
- guinness at some bar near the apt.

Sat
- dumplings at Rickshaw Dumpling Bar
- dumplings and fried tofu at mandoo bar in manhattan koreatown
- bagels at Ess-a-Bagel on the west side
- beer at Heartland Brewery in Union Sqaure
- cannolis in little italy
- mexican beer at some place in the east village
- LOTS of tea at teany (formerly co-owned by moby, but not anymore)
- sausage, sauerkraut, potato pancakes, german beer at lederhosen in west village

sunday morn
- breakfast at grey dog cafe
- mini eclair at some italian pastry shop

It was a good trip overall. We didn’t really have a plan; basically just wandered around manhattan looking for anything interesting to eat and/or drink.

Observations/Thoughts
- most stuff in nyc is more expensive but especially so in times square; restaurants were a lot more reasonable in other parts.
- none of the italian bakeries we went to did made-to-order cannolis like they do in boston’s little italy. i guess boston does beat new york in something. :)
- i lived out my ideal city scenario on sunday morning when i walked out of the house with just my collection of key fobs (including the citicard paypass) and the house key. went to work out at nysc, took an extra jog around the west village, then went to CVS and paid for my gatorade with my paypass. yes! yay for a barcoded, rfid’ed, cashless society.