Brief Notes about NYC
1) Dining out is cheaper than I thought. I had some banh mi (Vietnamese sandwiches) for lunch with bubble tea. It was $15 for two. Flipside is that I ate a really expensive sushi dinner last night, but it was pretty good. (Will do a restaurant review later.) NYC is a mix of expensive and inexpensive. It’s all about the choices you make.
2) There is a lot of non-air conditioning around town. Sure, lots of places have it, but there are many places that just don’t bother. (Ok, perhaps that is a Chinatown-centric comment.)
3) I love walking everywhere, no matter how much my legs ache.
4) My friends rock. I am having the best time doing nothing but walk around, shop and eat. I have failed to go to any museums, but I’ll be headed to the MOMA today.
Will have to make a tally later on when I get back. Today is just another relaxing day…
tiredofbeingbroke wrote:
I like note #1. As a NYC resident am amazed that most people outside of NYC thinks it is the most expensive place to live. There are apartments in good neighborhoods that are under 1,000. There are restaurants that serve good food for less than 50 per plate. You are so right it is about choices.
Posted on 30-Jul-07 at 9:03 am | Permalink
Dennis wrote:
*sigh* I miss Vietnamese food, there isn’t any in Wisconsin. Banh Mi is great, Pho too, and Che Ba Mau (dessert).
In New York’s Chinatown, I always go to 69, with the dollar bills all around. Cheap and good! And theres the Chinese Ice Cream Factor place a few shops down… Leechee icecream!!
My friends also took me to an all you can eat Korean place in Flushing… i love Korean Ribs.
=( I need some Asian food bad.
Posted on 30-Jul-07 at 10:36 pm | Permalink
Matt wrote:
I love NYC and wish I could move back there some day. I think it is a misconception that this is an expensive city to live in. I live in Orlando now and the options to do stuff for free here is very limited, but in NYC the options are limitless!
Posted on 31-Jul-07 at 9:55 am | Permalink
savvy wrote:
I love Vietnamese sandwiches! You can get them for less than $5 here.
I don’t know what Dennis is talking about, there are quite a few GREAT Vietnamese restaurants in Madison, WI. And a few not-so-great. I grew up in Des Moines, IA, where there’s a great Vietnamese restaurant on every corner (at least on the side of town I grew up on), so I got pretty spoiled. They are harder to find in Madison, but that just makes me appreciate them more.
Posted on 31-Jul-07 at 11:50 am | Permalink
msminiducky wrote:
Oh gosh, I guess I’m really behind the times … I was shocked that banh mi had gone up to $2/sandwich! We used to get 10 for $8 when they were $1 each, AND buy 4 get 1 free. Ah, the good old days.
Posted on 31-Jul-07 at 6:57 pm | Permalink
DaveO wrote:
Alright, since we’re on food, and you live in N. VA., I’ve gotta ask if you know any good Japanese Katsu places around here. My wife misses the chicken katsu we used to get in the Seattle/Mill Creek area when we lived out there.
Great blog by the way!
Posted on 31-Jul-07 at 7:30 pm | Permalink
dong wrote:
I think new york food prices run the gamut. It can be both the cheapest city to eat, and the most expensive. It’s really the housing costs that make the city ridiculously expensive.
Posted on 05-Aug-07 at 5:03 pm | Permalink