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Already my last nite in NYC. One of the things that I had not done during these past few weeks was to cross over the brooklyn bridge and see the Manhattan Skyline from that perspective. Took the subway to that side today and admired the beautiful skylike at dusk when all the buildings started to light up their lights and walked back the bridge to Manhattan. One of the most spectacular skylines ever !
I usually don't do the too touristic route, but I got the chance to get a VIP tour of the United Nations in NYC. I went for it and did the touristy thing - Got pictures of me sitting in the security council United States Seat, of me sitting in the Mauritius seat in the General Assembly and posed in front of the Main speaker pedestal when the Secretary General addresses the people. Reminded me of Model United Nations (MUN) that we had done in high school once. It's the most touristic thing I did in this trip, but yet all these places are where so many decisions affecting a lot of our everyday life are made !
Hiyasi Chuka (Cold Ramen) for this super hot night at Ramen Setagaya in the East Village.
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There are many ethnic neighborhoods in New York for the different communities and groups of people living here from the so many countries. There's Chinatown[S], Little Italy, Puerto Rican Barios and African neighborhoods in Harlem, Little Russia in Brighton Beach, Curry Hill, Curry Row, Little India etc.. It's so great to have so much of these cultures concentrated here and be able to visit/experience a bit of the cultural/culinary aspects of these countries cultures without having to travel there. I visited Jackson Heights in Queens a couple of weeks ago and it's the Little India of NYC. I almost felt like I was in India :)
Funny while I was there, I was just walking about and two persons overtook me on the street and they were speaking in Maurician Creole. It's so rare to find people speaking creole in the US. I stopped them and introduced myself and told them I am from Mauritius too and when I asked him what is doing in the US - he said he's the Ambassador of Mauritus to the United Nations - Milan Meetarbhan. Funny I bumped into our ambassador out of the blues.
Thiebu Djen is the national dish of Senegal. It is fish stewed in rich tomato sauce with eggplant, carrots, cassava an white cabbage, served over exotice rice. Went to Harlem today for lunch and had that. Pretty good homey soul food !
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I wonder if should try any of these massage places in chinatown NYC.. $30 for 60 mins foot rub seems like a deal to me... But wonder about the quality of them..
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Today, was walking in a Haitian neighborhood in Brooklyn and saw this ad on the wall. The ad was in creole - Haitian creole.. But I could understand most of it.. I could even understand what some of the people around were speaking in Haitian creole.. It's the closest creole to the Mauritian creole that I have encountered..
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I was walking by in Soho Today and I saw that the lulumelon store had a live person doing yoga in their store display rather than manequins. Great idea to put a live living display of all their products in use rather than static object display..
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I love the halal food trucks around every other block in NYC. Not too healthy but great tasting fast food. This particular one had a great variety of food - briani, kathi rolls, chicken kofta and even daal over rice, with max price being $5! Awesome deal !
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I guess it's the season for these.. Every other fruit merchant in Chinatown were selling them.. Bought a pound of each.. Delicious !!
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