NEW YORK

Week 12

 
Day 2 Boston to New York (back on the dog).

 

B: Tea and coffee for the 4 hour trip

L: Ham, salami cheese, lettuce and tomato roll, rating 7.0.

D: Visited our first New York food emporium, near the Rockafella Centre, tried salmon, avocado with brown rice, pickled ginger and wasabi, for starters followed by an Italian style (minestrone) soup with chicken and crusty bread, washed down with an iced donut, a real potpourri, but filled the gap and tasted ok to boot, rating 7.5.

Day 3 New York

L: Mexican chicken, salsa, refried beans, rice and salad, followed by an almond croissant, decent feed for a food hall, rating 7.5.

D: Found a nearby Chinese restaurant, that had Chinese patrons, tried the Pork and wonton noodle soup, a decent effort, with a good stock, not many greens, rating 7.5.

Day 4 New York

L: Decent barista coffee and cranberry and orange muffin, rating 7.5., we then took the Staten Island ferry across( and back) the Hudson River, it’s a free ride and a great view of Manhattan Island city scape, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges) and Brooklyn. I noticed they sold beers, at the hot dog stand at the ferry terminal,(rating 7.0) and spotted an old favourite 24oz Coors heavy tinnies, once I had established you could drink on the ferry bought a couple for the ride, but you have to drink it out of a cup.

Still my favourite USA beer, rating 8.0, hard to get though, they want to sell u the Coors light crap.

D: Found an all you can eat Chinese buffet, so sampled the egg drop soup, steamed salmon, crumbed squid, flash fried octopus, pork sweet and sour and roasted, chicken and cashews, fried rice, major tso chicken, roast duck, even had desert, profiteroles, jelly and fresh fruit, after a feast like that for $15, I must give this meal an 8 rating as it was all really tasty.  

Had to be fresh for the numbers present, and big numbers of Asians.

Day 5 New York

L: Visited another food emporium, where you buy and eat in house this time, it was a chicken Caesar salad and a ham and tomato bread roll, rating 7.5.

D: Visited the 9/11 memorial site, found a little café nearby called Georges, where I tried the Chicken Parmiagana, which cane with a fresh garden/Greek salad and curiously pasta and a tomato (napolitana style sauce, a huge meal and tasty to boot, rating 8.0.

Georges cuisine

Day 6 New York

L: Chicken and salad wrap and chips, rating 6.5.

D: Roast Chicken and vegetables, incl grilled potato, sweet potato, capsicum, with beans and carrots, ice cream, rating 7.5.

Day 7 New York

B: Fruit

L: After 9 weeks in the USA, and seeing hundreds of Taco Bell stores,we finally got to sample one, tried beef taco (hard shell), chicken burrito which had salsa, refried beans, lettuce and tomato, chilli sauce , not a bad style of Mexican, had some nice spicy sauces, rating 7.5.

Taco Bell food

D: As is now tradition went to Chinatown, and yes I went for duck again, but this time with a twist, it was on the menu as orange roast duck with 2 chillies for spicy hot next to it, so how does a chinaman make a French classis. Well the already roasted duck was deboned, and deep fried again to make the skin even crispier, the sauce was a combination of orange and chilli flavour, with deep fried pieces of orange peel and chilli included, with a bowl of steamed rice and steamed broccoli and carrots, it worked a treat, rating 8.5.

Week 13: New York to Paris via JFK airport and Lufthansa.

Day 1

B: Fruit

L:  Brewed coffee, had to try a New York bagel, so sampled Cheese and Jalapeno version, just like a cheese roll with large pieces of Jalapeno, baked into it, quite tasty really, rating 7.5, followed by a Cranberry and Walnut muffin, interesting combo, rating 7.5.

D: At JFK had vegetable noodle soup, which was quite ordinary, rating 6.5, and on the plane had chicken, rice and vegetables, with an orange sauce, slightly better than the ground food, rating 7.0.