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So much food...

Yesterday night Karri and I went to this place called the Momofuku Noodle Bar which is this sorta trendy bigdealinNYC type places that I honestly expected to sort of suck. The yelp reviews all raved about really awesome steamed pork buns and to someone who grew up eating pork buns and the like couldn't really imagine any pork bun being really that good. I mean they can be good but to be like a leading attraction? Also when i got in there no one working was Asian which I hate to say is a pretty standard barometer for how good Asian food is supposed to be. Well I was proved wrong and they were legit as fuck. Had some crazy pickles where they used pears, the ramen was pretty good, the pork buns weren't so much buns but folded dough with bork belly in them(and they were really awesome) and their hamachi kama was probably the best I've ever had. Afterwards were were pretty beat and had to go pick up Samf at the airport at 6 am so I passed out pretty easily at midnight.

Waking up to pick up sam at JFK was pretty hardcore. Totally woke up at 4:45 and took the 6 to the airport. On an amusing note the 6 goes from the Bronx to JFK and in J-Lo's breakout album "On the 6" it references that subway line. Let's be real, she is Jenny from the block. Def slept like the whole way there. Anyways JFK sucks, you get out of the subway and basically pay another $5 to take the JFK airtrain... then when you leave, you have to pay $5 again. So it basically costs you $10 to go get someone at the airport on top of the $2.25 that the subway costs. In an amusing note I bet I was one of the first people in the country to see the breaking news that the Senate passed a health care bill. Makes me wonder if they went all night or showed up at 6 to vote.

When we got back to Karri's we were all pretty beat, Sam included since she took a redeye flight. So we all ended up napping till 12:30. I had like 5 totally bizarre dreams since it was all REM sleep. Not the most restful but better than nothing. Our first stop of the day was literally named "The Hummus Place" and as you can imagine their main deal was hummus. They were owned by some israelis that were pretty nice. When we got in there was three of us and they asked a couple at a three person table to move. The guy was cool with it but the girl was fairly indignant but i was like YEA WATEVA. Anyways I bet they were slightly annoyed because the three of us split a lunch special of mushroom hummus and fallafels. We added on an order of the labone yogurt that i really like and I also had some turkish coffee which was bombtastic.

Next stop was the brooklyn bridge. It's a pretty good bridge, no Golden Gate mind you but it might be tied with the bay bridge in my bridge power rankings. We took some fairly silly photos that i'll post this weekend. We also got to explore parts of (b)Crooklyn. I already feel more like Jay-Z. At least a little. The sign at the end of the bridge says "how sweet it is, welcome to Brooklyn" which is pretty tight. The borough of Brooklyn feels a lot more like SF in that it's big but not as fast. Like you can kinda stroll around there. If i ever do manage to make it into a ny law school i think i'd want to live in manhattan my first year but maybe 2nd or 3rd go to brooklyn.

Afterwards we attempted to go to Lombardi's PIzzaria which is supposed to be the first pizzaria ever in the world. They were closed. I cried. Inky binky bonky.

Instead we went to this awesome izakaya called Oh! Taisho. The food wasn't necc better than some of the places I've had in LA or say Izakaya Mai in san mateo but the atmosphere really felt like the izakayas i japan. Izakaya mai feels too family and most of the LA ones are too shi shi. Izakayas in japan are all about getting trashed and eating a lot. Oh! Taisho really lets you do that. We ate entirely too much and I got a solid buzz going so wooooo. Our saba shioyaki didn't really come till way too late and we ended up taking it to go. I actually told them to cancel it but w/e, we took it with us and I asked karri to put it in her purse. This ended up making all her stuff smell like fish. Whoops!

Afterwards we went to the Momofuku milk bar because girls like dessert. I'm not huge on it but they owed me some stuff since I sneakily paid for Oh! Taisho so we went. They got a slice of carrot cake, some coffee milk, some steamed pork buns for sam, a cookie and some cornflake flavored soft serve. I'm not huge on carrot cake, the coffee milk was hella good but was sorta rich for me. The cookie was good and the soft serve, despite sounding really weird was pretty good. If i went back I'd probably just get that.

Finally despite being stupid full we still went to this oyster bar in union station. luckily it was a two mile walk and we burned some time at a street market to let the food move it's way through us. Union station is crazy looking. Really old school fancy. In my dogs with sweaters quest i met a fantastic pug named pilgrim wearing a fine coat who was so excited to have his picture taken he wagged and howled and put is front legs on my knee while snorting gleefully. The oyster bar was super packed and we were so full we only had 3 oysters each and really just barely. The oysters were from long island (meh) oregon (decent - from a place called kumamoto so some JA fishers?), and these fucking amazing oysters from maine. I could have eaten 10. Well really three because I was so full but 10 otherwise.

Finally we made it back to karri's and watched up. and now my achilles tendons hurt like hell from all the walking.

Tomorrow it's the morning bus at 7:30 outta penn station to DC to have an x-mas meal with my friend Christina's mom and brother (she's in Pas with her dad...) so it'll be sorta awk but I can dig it. New mattress on sat! then I'm deciding between staying in DC till the bowl game or coming back to NYC to kick it more with Karri and Sam. Thuy and co. are also coming in on sat so I might end up in NYC by saturday night haha.

In new yoooork conrete jungle where dreams are made offfff. (i want to live here fairly badly)