Taste of Chinatown
I never get tired of Taste of Chinatown. Cheap Chinese food ($1-$2), right on the street, no hassle, lots of choices--divine! This year we went a little too close to closing--many merchants had packed up by just after 5pm, but we still managed to score great fried dumplings, the fabled lemon-ginger-tea, several "Chinese tamales" (zongzi), and to continue the Asia-Latin theme some pockets resembling empanadas. Also nibbled were fish balls, black sesame ice cream from the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory, and fake meats in all shapes and sizes.
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This was my first TOC, and I felt like we'd had at least one item from every table (oink). Some, I only ventured one or two bites of (those white steamed bean-filled dumplings were a bit too sweet for my tastes), but generally everything was dee-lish. And so cheap!
Favorites: ginger lemon tea, warm baked pork humbows, and some orgasmic fried chicken.
Least favorites: deep-fried doughy flat things that were dripping with oil, some brick-like cakes (I can't think of the name) that had a cool design on top. Too dense with ingredients that were too unidentifiable for me.
Had a nice walk back to Brooklyn over the Manhattan Bridge. Much more scenic, in my opinion, than its counterpart to the south.
i've been raving about the ginger-tea since my last TOC --a year ago! it was just as good as i remember. May May Bakery also has really yummy steamed sticky rice balls wrapped in leaf :)
Nunc est bibendum.
Period.