Garret, Matthew, and Alissa woke early to try to nab tickets to SNL but were thwarted by subway construction and detours. So we were forced to turn back home.
After getting our beauty sleep in we took the metro to Canal Street and walked the streets of Chinatown. Some of the highlights were the knockoff markets, the streets packed full of Chinese shops, the old Chinese men playing traditional Chinese instruments and checkers in peaceful
Columbus Park. The park that wasn’t always so serine though, it was once one of the most dangerous in the USA and portrayed in the film Gangs of New York.
Matthew and Alissa challenged Rick, Barb, and Garret to some real Chinese food. So for lunch we found a tiny, rundown restaurant in Chinatown with the front window full of dishes ready to serve and packed full of old Chinese men. There were no deep fried items here folks just strange sea food, unrecognizable meats, and prepared Chinese vegetables. Rick and Garret left half their plates but Barb actually finished hers!!! Way to go Mom!
We went for old aged oolong tea at Nah Wah Tea Parlour, it hasn’t changed much since it opened a long, long time ago.
After tea we toured the Buddhist temple and read all of our fortunes- Alissa had the best outlook out of all of us…
Wonder if bad luck is genetic!
We walked from Chinatown to Little Italy. The smell of pasta and cheese filled the air and we unanimously decided to stop for a bottle of Italian wine and drink it in the sun under the umbrella. An old tinted Buick in pristine condition slowly rolled down the street with classical music blaring from inside… it felt like we were in a scene from The Godfather.
2 comments:
It totally feels like you are in the Godfather!! That is how we felt when we had our 11:30 pm candlelight dinner on a patio in Little Italy.
Jo,
We'll have lots of New York reminiscing to do when we visit next month.
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