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International meals with $25 from Alyce
By Kristen | June 29, 2007
Twenty-five dollars takes you a hell of a lot further than you might think here in NYC.
I don’t know why these Donation Derby trips end up turning into mini-vacations, but here’s how I spent $25 from Alyce.
Okay, so I didn’t do anything quite as glamorous as that photo might lead you to believe.
After my class on Saturday, my husband and I (plus enstrollered kid) walked from 13th Street to South Ferry. I don’t know it happened; we just started walking and by the time we were at South Street Seaport1 we realized we might as well keep walking to get to 1 subway line.
Instead, we decided to ride the ferry to Staten Island and back again.
It was pretty windy.
I don’t know what it is, but seeing the Statue of Liberty is so totally cool…
…but photographing it just makes it look dinky.
Anyway, once we got back, we walked back uptown to Chinatown, for one of my favorite foods ever: Big Wong King’s roast pork. First, we had to wait for a table.
Then, the money shot:
We ate, we paid the check, we left… and I realized we still had $12 left.
Naturally, there’s only one solution to this problem:
The end.
- Yeesh. What the shit is that place about? [↩]
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June 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Yay! That looks delicious. I am a huge huge huge fan of Chinese roast pork (ate it twice, plus about 7 other Chinese meals, while JB and I were in NYC in May). This was the perfect way to spend my cash.
June 29th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Hooray!
Do you remember where you got roast pork while in NYC? I love Big Wong’s but I’m willing to cheat on them once in a while.
June 29th, 2007 at 5:21 pm
We went to Big Wong one of the times and the other was a place in midtown - 48th maybe. It was just a tasty dish from an otherwise average Chinese place. They looked like they got a ton of lunch customers.
Big Wong was far superior.
June 29th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I spy cotija!
Man, I love me some tacos.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
I actually had to look up cotija, but yes, I think you’re right.
I kinda shortchanged the tacos, which were freakin’ great. We’ve walked by the place we got them from for a year now. From the outside, it looks like just a bodega, but we realized about a week ago they serve food in there too.
June 30th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Those tacos look AMAZING! Wonder if they’d share a recipe. mmmmmmm
July 1st, 2007 at 11:27 am
Seeing as we have to order said tacos through an elaborate system of menu pointing and hand gestures, I’m thinking a recipe is probably out of the question.
July 5th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Two of my favorite ways to view Manhattan when I’m in New York are from the deck of the Staten Island Ferry and walking the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn side.
August 26th, 2007 at 9:00 pm