Before we left I got peckish and went down to Bedford Ave to grab brunch. A cream cheese bagel and creaming soda. It was pretty great, best creaming soda ever.
Soho is too low in Manhattan to have the luxury of the well-named Nth St and Nth Avenue roads and so we had to buy a map to avoid walking around in circles (there was a lot of 'haven't we been here?'). We went over a week in NYC without needed a map. Pretty good effort.
We stumbled upon the Magnolia Bakery. It supposedly featured heavily in Sex in the City. You have to lineup to get into the (small) store.
They have chocolate cupcakes and vanilla cupcakes. I got a chocolate one and suze a vanilla one. But we were fooled! The vanilla onces have chocolate icing and vice versa. The the cup cakes weren't that great, but they looked pretty...well mine looked pretty until I picked it up.
We came across this:
A heap of individually-painted post-9/11 patriotic tiles mounted on a fence.These car parks fascinate me (walked past this twice because of our lack of map):
While walking in a specific area I noticed there was less (but still some) honking...and then I saw this:
Walking around makes me hungry so we decided to eat at a cute Indian restaurant that had some lunch specials. I ordered a Vegetable curry and Susan a Chicken Curry (about US$5 each). Not long after ordering, a small plate came out each of curry soup and something deepfried. We were a little confused. 'Is this is it?'. 'Did they screw up our order?'. 'Will we have to pay for this?'. Anyway, we ate it and before long confusion was cast aside and the main meal turned up: The curries + 3 different condiments + a plate of rice + naan bread. Holy shit! We ate that and before long they'd brought out dessert! We were a bit 'surely that its'. And then they brought out tea. Phew! It's not often you get more than you expect at a restaurant. We tipped well. (The bill came out on a plate of scented stuff with a spoon, we had no idea what to do with it).
I didn't really buy anything the whole day except one more snow dome to add to the collection.
