I’m glad that we decided to go to NYC for our honeymoon because NYC is not just another city, like Vancouver. NYC shattered my expectations of what a city is in so many ways: architecture, transportation, and food.
When I moved over to Vancouver from Victoria I expected Vancouver to be a more populated city with more amenities. And that’s pretty much what Vancouver is to me. Since GVA has more land to work with than Victoria, buildings and road are spread far and wide from each other allowing for less congestion. But not so much in NYC. Since there is limited land, buildings go up, up, up, and even down a few floors, like Forever 21 which has 3 underground levels.
Sry no picture of the inside
The dilemma of limited land coupled with too many people spawns creativity.
When we first got into our hotel room, we seriously thought there was no washroom. Good thing we checked the “closet”. Found it. This washroom reminds me of FFXI. An online game where North American players interact with Japanese players. In Japan their washrooms are usually in closets so they refer to them as a “water closest” or “wc” for short. Now I can say I’ve been to a WC.
This is how you park in NYC:
Luckily, you can get around via subway and avoid the problem of finding a spot to park your car. Pedestrians are very aggressive (dumb?) here so the drivers have to drive so aggressively to blatantly explain that car > man. Regardless of the no honking signs, drivers continue to honk and pedestrians ignore the warnings.
Once you get used to the subway system you’re golden. This bad boy takes you all over the place with minimal effort. The trains are 2x the length of our Skytrain and come more frequently. On top of ridiculous volume of people the train moves there is often entertainment on the trains: religious freaks touting the bible, musical acts, drunks passed out on the train, verbal and non-verbal disputes, and more elaborate acts at the bigger stops like Grand Station Sq. or Times Sq.. I miss you already subway.
The subway was perfect for getting us to all the good eats. The first few days we filled up at our favorite restaurants which we didn’t have in Vancouver like Red Lobster. But after day 3, we decided to only get 1 or 2 items and share to maximize the amount of restaurants we could eat at.
I wish I could describe how good the food was. The only time in my life where I’ve had food nearly as good as in NYC was when I was in Vietnam. But even Vietnam couldn’t beat the food we had in NY. We didn’t go to any fancy smancy places either.
The best thing I ate in NYC was a Portobello Wrap with Fries at Traffic. The food was unreal. Even the fries tasted better than any fries I’d ever tasted. The wrap though was godly. Like, I would become vegetarian for that shit.
Picture makes it look like joe blows wrap. But this was mind blowing.
No use making people hungry by posting food photos so here is one with big ass cupcakes!
Rest of the pics will be up on Facebook soon. Enjoy for now~
