New York Epic Day 2

Today the food adventure started around noon with a little trip to Jacques Torres Chocolate.  It was beautiful inside decorated with flowering vines, hanging butterflies, and shelves full of wonderfully wrapped chocolates.  Jenn and I decided to take it easy and share.  We ordered a frozen hot chocolate and a chocolate chip cookie.  This is no ordinary cookie though.  Rumor has it that Martha Stewart herself featured these cookies as one of her all time favorites, I was sold.  I must admit that after the first bite of each there was that moment Jenn and I closed our eyes and muttered softly, "hell yes!"

Jenn

Me

For lunch we went to China Town for dumplings at Vanessa's Dumplings.  Now I already knew I loved dumplings, so I had a feeling I was going to like this place. What I wasn't prepared for was the Peking Duck Sesame Pancake sandwich.  I also got the Boiled Pork and Chive dumplings and a coke all for $5.75!!  The best is not only was it cheap it was amazing.  By this point in the day, I was on cloud nine feeling better than I have in weeks.

It got better though with a stop at Chinatown Ice Cream Factory.  It is one of the few places in the city that makes there own ice cream.  I walked away with a scoop of Lychee Sorbet, one word: yummy.

In the evening we headed home to eat left overs.  Now this might not sound exciting but you would be wrong! Dari, Jenn's boy friend, is Filipino.  This means his mom is Filipino. That means his mom makes Filipino food. And that means I get left over wonderful Filipino food.  I got a soup dish called  Sinagog that has green beans, salmon, yuca, and other stuff I can't spell. There was also fried salmon and rice.  Oh, and to drink I got Raspberry Schweppe's Ginger Ale, which instantly transports me to childhood summers in Chicago.  I have not been able to find this soda in Phoenix so when I saw it in the store here I made Jenn grab it.

That was it for today, but wait till tomorrow, there is a surprise.