fun stores in New York
6/20/20 Hope everybody stays strong and in sane! I just finished a creek walk, which is awesome! Which is not awesome is that when I was drying my feet, five big guys were walking towards me fearlessly with no masks and no desire of social distancing. I ran away like a mouse on my bare feet on a stony road and a car was chasing behind me!!! To cure my insanity, I wrote down this blog …
Dear readers, I miss New York! I miss China! I miss yummy restaurants! I miss crowds! I miss loudness! I miss dancing! I miss bars! … I miss everything! Today’s blog is about “I miss everything therapy”!!
Let’s begin with the dessert!
This place is called the LROOM cafe. If you are rich, there are many more beautiful choices 🙂
The uncool part is that I did not find any handsome/hot men in the store! Disappointing 🙂
The next place is a Japanese noodle shop. Many famous stars have been eating here. For example, the first picture below is a Chinese star called Zhao Wei.
Inside, it looks like a jail?! Each people get assigned to a cell to eat (or to visit the people in the jail). I had forgotten the name of the restaurant and I found it by searching “jail roman noodle store in Manhattan”. Here you go https://www.ichiranusa.com/
The food is sent out creepily like this. The door opens but you cannot see the servant’s face. When you are ready to order, you can select the soup type, the meat type, the size … and then push the bell.
In their bathroom, you can select which toilet paper roll(s) to use and it never runs out. Creepy ++
This is how waiter/waitress know where to assign you. Does this feel like the control room of a parking lot, xixi
This is my favorite store in Williamsburg. It is big and empty. It sells clothes collected from all over the world especially the artists from the developing world, and then it has some installation art here and there like this, NOT FOR SALE of course!
The following probably is not a great picture. But this is a famous Williamsburg restaurant called surf bar http://brooklynsurfbar.com/ The food is so so, but hey, you got to take off your shoes and sit in the sand to eat your dinner after a whole day Manhattan walk!
The following is the place I like in Chelsea, called “the very fresh noodles” or something like this. It serves (authentic) Chinese spicy and tasty noodle in a cheap price (compared to other eats in Chelsea) You can sit across the chefs to watch how other people’s noodle is made. They used many bottles of Chinese vinegar as decorations! LONG lines most of the time though!
I also like these pentagon sinks. Guess where I am?!
What about this place, where you can design your own cakes? It is called milk bar https://milkbarstore.com/products/build-a-cake-ny. Yes, you can put together a cake as simple as putting together a frozen yogurt or a frozen ice-cream …
If you like pets, this place you can shop pets like shopping clothes. Taking them out from the boxes, playing/trying with them until you decide which one you want to be with …
NYC crowds are very soothing. I remember that in the first winter break after I arrived in US and lived in a small town for 3+month, I came to NYC in a greyhound and lived on the floor (she has no couch) of my friend’s apartment in Brooklyn for the entire winter break, just to see people …
