Back from New York

Back home in North Canterbury and its great to be home!

I was in New York for 3 weeks and I wanted to share some of my pics of some of the things that I thought were interesting 🙂

So here’s my run down..

My Top 5 Best Bits from New York

1. Seeing Family in New York (my brother lives there)
2. Experiencing the diversity of the food – its just done right, eating out is part of the lifestyle.. because it’s such good value and they work hard to do it right..
3. The New York Scenery!
4. The Oysters – you can buy them EVERYWHERE… I love Oysters.
5. New Yorkers are obsessed with Kiwi’s (New Zealanders) – I don’t know if it’s our accents or laid-back style but its a fact!  If they keep up the good food – I’ll keep on being obsessed with them.

“New Yorkers are obsessed with Kiwi’s!”

New York, New York…

With my niece

Google, the world is being built here! Amazing!

Oysters

New York Nightlife

World Trade Centre

Inside the Chelsea Food Market

Alaskan King Crab Claws – absolutely Amazing

Prawn and Fish Ceviche at a local bar

Inside Chelsea Market – A lot of Restaurants had their menus on chalk boards

Brooklyn Bridge! I’m standing in a place called “Dumbo”

McSorley’s the oldest bar in New York – always PACKED with people, cash only, sawdust floors. I’m going to write a blog about this place… bucket-list visit for sure!

Oysters

An old Train Station – I really like the architecture of New York

Fancy Super Market selling high-end crazy, funky food, produce, sauces – I went here EVERY day!

McSorley’s the oldest bar in New York

Oysters

Super famous pie – sweet and so different to anything I’ve expereinced (also try the Pumpkin Pie.. so good!) Theres a competition with the locals..

All different types of crab. You can buy NZ greenlipped mussels here for $30 per kilo!!! We don’t know how lucky we are with our own fresh mussels, oysters and fresh fish!

Mexican food is huge in New York… not like Mexican we have in NZ

“Oysters.. Ceviche Seafood Salad… New Zealand Green Lipped Mussells”

Actually, one of the most hilarious interaction was talking to someone selling “New Zealand Bluff Oysters” – that clearly weren’t even an NZ species of oyster!  And you won’t convince a New Yorker who knows they are right!?  All of the oysters were amazing though..

If you haven’t seen my other posts, take a look below.

1. Meet Jay – my introduction blog post