kmart flashlights to chinatown dim sum & i<3ny t-shirts

Look! Two updates in a row! I'm doing pretty well, considering I'll be mia for the next three weeks (I'll be in Switzerland). Of course, once I get back, I'll do a massive, HUGE update all about Zurich, but maybe this is just my big mouth talking and I'll never come around to actually write the entry. No, I'll do it. I promise.

So once again I find myself in the city today. Commuting to the city is so tiring, and now I realize that I probably would have never survived commuting back and forth to NYU from Jersey. So I'm glad I didn't follow through with my thoughts about commuting. I would've died. Literally.

I came into the city today to go shopping with my missions team; we needed to buy gifts and flashlights. We met in front of the Union Square Whole Foods, where I bought an iced coffee-tea. Weird right? An iced coffee blended with tea? Anyways, it tasted alright, nothing too special about it. The description for it sounded a lot more appetizing. Once everyone got to Whole Foods, we bought some flashlights at Kmart and then proceeded to walk to Chinatown to get some dimsum and gifts! I was really happy and surprised because no one seemed to mind that we were walking to Chinatown. Whew. If they were my school friends, we definitely would've ended up taking the subway. Which is lame. 

Dimsum in Chinatown was good, but we couldn't get a lot of dishes because we came towards the end. Still, we got plates of mantou (steamed white bun) with sweet egg paste, beef chow mein, shrimp chow fun dumplings, and beef chow fun dumplings. Everything was quite yummy and reminded me of Beijing. I miss China... but I can't wait for Switzerland!! My favorite dish out of those four was the mantou. Then again, no surprise there since I love bread and mantou especially is so yummy because it's steamed and the interior is fluffy! Fluffy bread! YUM :-)

After dimsum, we stopped by the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory. FINALLY, I got to see this place. I've always wanted to go, but never found it. It's a lot smaller than I thought. I thought it'd be like... a factory. I was being silly I guess :-(

The ice cream factory has a lot of interesting flavors, but Eve and I ended up sharing the taro and coconut. YUMMY!! I LOOVE ice cream, and it was perfect because I was craving it. 

I will post pictures up as soon as I upload them. I only want to post this entry because I'm greedy and want to seem like I'm consistent in my post entries lol.

Sleep-deprived

I slept at 4 A.M. last night, and I woke up way too early for my liking. I can't go back to sleep, so here I am, looking at my amateur food blog, wondering what to write and express. I'm so tired, but the thoughts in my head are running wildly around in my head. Seriously, my mind has a life of its own, and I can't control it sometimes. That's what you get for having an active imagination. 

I need to start my food blog seriously. I believe blogs are the next new form of media to provide information to the mass public. Come on, internet plus networking plus awesome photography and clear, everyday lingo? Blogs are the future. 

I want to be big, real BIG, in the blog industry. I want this blog to detail not only my life but the foods I eat and cook. So, what does this all mean? This means that I need to stop being lazy and start writing!!! 

So, even though it's currently 10 A.M. and I only had four and a half hours of sleep, I will share some of the cravings that I've been having:

-ICE CREAM- Ice cream, ice cream, and ice cream. Need I say it again? I'm not a huge sweets fan, but I seriously scream for some ice cream. Last night, I finally got some, but it wasn't quite the flavor I wanted. At this ice cream mini-store called All Mixed In! (part of a local deli), I got this flavor called Peanut Butter Caramel Cookie Dough. It sounded amazing, but the flavor was not quite up to par. At first bite, the caramel strikes you as being too strong and the peanut butter flavor is too mild. Now, I'm a huge fan of peanut butter (especially in desserts) so I was disappointed. Plus, there wasn't enough cookie dough and everyone knows cookie dough is the best part!

-American fries- These always seem to be a classic staple. No matter how hard you all try and say you are going to give them up, you just can't! They will always be America's number one consumed form of vegetable. I went to Applebees for the fourth time in my life last night, and I got the fries. I was happy to see that they were the thickly cut ones, so that when you eat them, there is a crispy crunch from the exterior and just enough potato on the inside. I find that McDonalds and Burger King's fries are too skinny and do not have enough poh-tae-toe! =)

Food is good. God is good to give people so many creative ideas! And this is my food entry for today... I'm tired. I'm going to try going back to sleep. 

What do you think- more sleep is necessary, right?