Chinatown

I love chinatown, and if i had an awsome super duper digital SLR (which i don't ~_~), i think i'd snap so many pictures that the memory card in it would explode! Lol.... well maybe that wouldn't happen, but my point being that its a pretty cool neighbourhood.

We had our first meal in NYC right here, and as we were on a budget....we had to eat on a budget (seriously...like 5 bux was considered overpriced) and we knew before we stepped foot on american soil that chinatown is land of cheap! Aaaas a result our first meal did turn out to be fairly good, fairly cheap.. tho the tipping thing didn't go down too well for me (at first) as i wasn't used to it .

As an ethnically asian person, it was exciting to see a place like this smacked within a plethora of distinct neighbourhoods all around NYC. A McDs with a chinese sign, a stall hanging with durians, a crab escaping from the seafood stand....it had familiarity to the countries i've visited and lived in asia...quite homely actually =).. and as we stayed a bit longer, we discovered more eating wonders, cheap grocery markets, quirky shops.... and chinatown became bigger and bigger as i wondered off the usual tourist track...impressively big.

There is one thing i didn't like tho.... hair salons. Me and Jlo have both been to one on seperate occasions and the haircuts they give just seem really unstylish and/or generic (compared to similar asian hair salons here in NZ). I don't think mine looked any different from his OR the guy who walked out just before i entered. I wonder why they even bothered asking me how i wanted my hair cut, as they didn't really do as i asked.......

Oh well....I guess that was just another "discovery"..