New York New York!

Got to the Big Apple Sat afternoon (24 Feb) and was quickly out and about in town with mates, piccies attached below:

A quick run-down on where we were:

Pre-dinner drinks

A sake bar-restaurant near S's abode at NoLita - Chibi's Bar

S says that she thinks of a nasty Hokkien phrase whenever she reads the name of the Bar, I'm sure you all get it.
Best thing about the bar? The pictures of the pug - cute.. Woof!

Dinner

Trip to The Stanton Social was not successful so ended chomping at Latino- Mexican food at a restaurant nearby - don't think any of us remembers the name.. nevermind, next!

Kara

Went to Sing Sing Karaoke, is this NY's finest? Hope not! Songs were outdated and manual flipping of crusty old songbooks were required for tunes-selection! Yuck..

Clubbing

First choice was The Shelter but no one knew the address then. For future reference, you can click on my hyperlink! So ended up at basement club Sullivan Room for great house music.

Supper

A greasy-spoons cafe near S's place, not very memorable (had a fairly good cheeseburger I think). Only remembered thinking to myself how I would not be caught dead in a kebab shop (probably the UK equivalent) back in London. Hope I was not eating rat-burger instead..

Aftermath

Back to S's place, the stragglers eventually left or went to bed at 5 or 6am. Bedtime was 8am for S and myself, zzzzzzzzzs..

Next morning

Nua-d (def: lazed, hokk.) till stomachs were growling, proceeded to Chinatown for pig-out session at Congee Village.

Our Order?

4 types of porridge

Winter Melon Soup for 4 - gan pi (def: real cheap, hokk.) at only $4

Beef fillet chinese style

Aubergine and tofu hotpot

Rice baked salted chicken (served in a log!)

Tao Miu (or Tou Miao - chinese veg)

Fried Rice with diced chicken and salted fish

Xiao Long Baos

....... I'm sure I'm missing something out....

That was all for the 4 of us.. 'crazy's aye!