New York City Trip (2008-06-25)
We're back! Actually we've been back for awhile but I had a late start organizing the pictures and writing up this journal because jetlag's killing me. We would wake up every single night at 2:30 am to 3 am in New York and the cycle continued to bug me after we came home. During the last couple of weeks when I was awake and up, all I wanted to do was stare into space and grow mold! And getting up at 3:30 am to watch EURO 2008 since we came back certainly hasn't helped my body clock to get back to normal. I think I am okay now, though not 100%.
So, back to the trip.
This trip was geared toward a foodie adventure rather than a
sightseeing tour, and of course to visit KL's brother Marco who lives
in NYC. We had gotten most of the tourist spots out of the way in
our last trip (archives 2005
Nov 20 if you've missed that blog entry)
that this time all we wanted to do was to take things slowly and
EAT! We were serious enough about the meals we were to receive in
NYC that we had Marco make reservation for four restaurants a week
before the trip.
Apart from one restaurant which was a recommendation from Marco and
a random restaurant where we had our last meal, every other one was the
result of research at home. Our trip was short, we didn't want to
waste any meal on some random crappy restaurants. But that's not
to say everything we ate in New York was super great and every
restaurant we went to was a success. A couple of restaurants
which had good reviews turned out to be a disappointment. You'll
read about those.
The food that preceded all other food in NYC was of course airplane
meals. I must belong to the minority of the populace who don't
think airplane food sucks. I would happily eat their assembly
line food in neat little compartments unless it has ingredients I
hate. I actually enjoyed the food Continental gave us which I
guess is lucky.
The 14-hr flight was brutal but uneventful, thank goodness. It
took 50 minutes to get through immigration although the lines weren't
particularly long, they just moved waaaay too slowly. Once out in
the arrival hall, we were greeted by a friendly Japanese staff from the
travel agency. It took another hour and a quarter to reach our
hotel through rush hour traffic and being the last in the group to be
dropped off.
And then we saw the hotel. (to be continued...)
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