restaurants

and furthermore, if one of your bffs is in town and you need a midday empanada...

in

put on some billy joel
and head downtown (well, downtown for me)
to el centro on 54th

me + bestie brian = eternal luv

i had goat cheese empanadas
and a tamale
(apparently i still can't manage to get over dumpling binge)
...
bestie brian had a chilaquile

not only did their food totally hit the spot,
but the chochkies on the wall were also totally cute.

oh... and mike tyson walked by, mid-empanada.
tight.


xoxo


yeh!



the new york city dumpling festival

in
{can you think of a better idea for a festival? i can't.}

drats, i missed the dumpling eating competition!

unfortunately, by the time i got there, the gnocchi, the idli, the tamales, the kuih koci, and the pierogis were all gone!


so i devoured some bao...


sans soy sauce? i don't recommend.


...and i sampled a filipino dish called a palitaw


it's a gooey rice cake covered in coconut, and then topped with brown sugar and sesame seeds.
not too sweet! very delicious...


... and then i was still hungry
(naturally, anyone would starve themselves all day in preparation for a festival like this...)

so i continued on my own little dumpling tour of the lower east side.



i FINALLY got to yonah schimmel's
and tried a jalepeno knish.

it was... ok...

i'm just into a lot of crust in my knishes, and this one sort of whimped out.



is it total faux pas to prefer zabar to yonah?


for a sweet ending to my dumpling filled day, i headed up to the dumpling man on st. marks street for

pumpkin dumplings!


soooo doughy and delicious.

and the sauce they pour over them is so sweet!
(and sticky... i know because half of it somehow ended up dripping down my left arm)




oh dumplings, how i love you so!



xoxo


yeh