1. The Halal Guys Food Truck
2. Manting
3. BCD Tofu House – Casual Korean restaurant chain

When attempting to find a lunch spot after purchasing your meal,  try to find clean and warm surroundings such as a food court. However, since we’re neither NYC natives nor did we have a lonely but warm cubicle, we settled for a walkway leading to an MTA subway stop, that provided us with shelter from the strong gales. I would recommend a more comfortable sit-down location, but clearly we were hungry, cold, and not in the right frame of mind. The cold certainly took away from the full experience of savoring the flavors from our $7+ USD chicken and gyro combo (Shared between the both of us and we still had some leftovers).

The combo was tasty, filling and spicy, honestly what more can you ask for!!! It’s certainly not too healthy. But then again, I’d like to think Hillary and I are simple folk and aren’t too concerned with the lack of greens (We made up for it in other meals!  I mean if you consider lettuce and tomato from a Shake Shack burger).

The day that we had skipped the MET to venture into Bloomingdales and stores on Fifth Avenue, we went for dinner at Manting’s (Sara’s recommendation). Manting’s is located close to Times Sqaure so it was convenient for us to walkover after. By now, you may have noticed a trend for Asian cuisine. Reasons being: Hillary was starved of asian food having spent her exchange program in Copenhagen. I love rice. And who could say no to dry hot pot?! I can’t recall what we ordered, but it was based on a weight system. We ordered a bunch of different meats and vegetables. Our food came out hot and spicy and in that moment, it was heaven on earth.

Credits and S/O to Hillary for the stellar photos!

xoxo,

Isabel

After a day of non-stop window-shopping around SOHO, I was still sick, dehydrated, hacking up a storm and couldn’t find a convenient store in sight. We went into this modern, clean styled cafe, got rice pudding and a bottle of water. We were looking for potential eateries in the SOHO area but didn’t see any restaurants despite walking around for hours. We decided to  head east, back to our safe haunt, Astor Place, just because we knew we had several solid options of Japanese fare.

We decided to try out Kenka a restaurant our friend had recommended. Unbeknownst to us, the interior and exterior (we didn’t notice the provocative store display at the beginning as we were so starved of food) of the restaurant was filled with suggestive Japanese paraphernalia. The restaurant and some of the servers definitely seemed very edgy. It made for a very interesting experience.

On a separate occasion, before heading to UCB (Upright Citizen’s Brigade), an improv theatre club started by Amy Poehler, we dined at Oh Taisho. All the pictures are from our dinner at Oh Taisho. My personal faves were the Kimchi Udon-bottom left, and the Yaki Tori-Centre.