Dog sitting in NYC

Chris's older brother and his wife went away to the Caribbeans and asked Chris to dog sit Mac and watch the apartment.  We had a great  four day weekend filled with delicious food and walking! 

The view from his apartment! 

Night time 

Food Pics :)

Banh mi from Banh Mi Saigon.   

We got thai food for lunch at Cafe Sage.  

Entree plus drink for 6 bucks. Not bad for a place in the city!

Yellow Curry

Chris's Pad Thai

Chris and I watched an episode of The Best Thing I Ever Ate.  Euro Pane's egg salad sandwich was featured and it got me drooling!  We used this recipe to recreate it. Chris's brother lives in the Financial District and all the markets are upscale so we were able to find sun dried pesto, special bread, and chives easily.  

We decided to go to the East Village to get my free bubble tea from Tkettle. 

Banh Mi tacos from Xe May! I got lemon grass chicken and Chris ordered beef. .  

We ordered an original to go.  Look how much meat they give you!! 

I need to go back to get the beef banh mi.  

We walked all the way down to Chinatown to get soup dumplings from Shanghai Cafe.  Service was terrible as usual... but the dumplings were pretty good.  

Chris's brother told him about halal carts near his work.  Chicken and rice was tasty.  

My falafel sandwich.  The guy put way too much hot sauce on it.  

Sub from Pot Belly.  Way better than Subway's...but everything is better than Subways. I wish they had horseradish instead of mayo.  

Coconut juice 

My favorite drink is an avocado shake! 

I bought a living social deal for beer and tapas tasting at Stella Manhattan Bistro.  I forget the names of the beer we had but the beers were nothing special. 

Our tapas.  We ordered their Mac N Cheese (good), french dip (okay...can't compare it to Houston's), beef empanada (okay), Croque Monsieur (cheese and ham.. it was good), and fried oysters (Chris loved them..I didn't eat because I don't like mollusks)  

South Side Sea Port :) 

Take a look at Mac! He's the sweetest shih tzu ever! He was so well behaved except for the times he tried to leave with us.  

Here is my one and only Pazuzu.  He was so happy to see me that he frogged.  :) 

The little bugger woke me up at 5am for kisses and cuddles.  

I had a great time in the city with Chris :)  We ate so much but walked around 4-5 miles each day!  He just reminded me that our cruise is a month away.  I'm gonna have to start walking more.  I have a permanent food baby that I need to get rid of! 

Fatty Foods

I love going to Mitsuwa! I am lucky that I live (and work) 2 minutes away :P. 

I ordered the curry hamburger patty.  I was craving something meaty and this hit the spot.  It came with a seaweed salad and spicy mayo radish.  I did not touch the soup, because it smelled so weird.  My friend and her boyfriend ordered spicy Japanese ramen with melted pork.  I have to check it out next time.

Friday night, I drove down to Chris's house. We spent Saturday stuffing ourselves with delicious but terrible for your arteries food.  The grease trucks are a staple to Rutgers students.  Kinda disappointing that they jacked up the prices.  6.50 for a sandwich! A fat mojo used to be 5 dollars.  And maybe 2 for 6 during the summer when all the kids went home for summer vacation. 

Chris and I decided to be French and portion control.  We split this monster. 

Fat Filipino.  Gyro meat, white sauce, french fries, ice berg lettuce, and one mozzarella stick (? or two). 

Chris always asks for hot sauce when we get fat sandwiches.  Yum.   

College Ave is so pretty when it's empty.  We sat on a bench for half an hour digesting our 2k calorie lunch  (1k each because we split it).

For dinner Chris took me Cafe Paris.  Look at the walls! So pretty and makes you feel like you're in Paris eating a baguette :).  I couldn't take too many pictures of the cafe, because there were people munching away on their food. One thing I can't stand is when people take pics of people eating haha.

   No wonder the French are so healthy and thin.  They know how to portion control unlike us! 

 He picked out a ham and goat cheese sandwich.  

I picked our dessert! Fresh strawberries, NUTELLA, chocolate syrup, and chocolate ice cream with whipped cream and powdered sugar. Wow.  I would definitely come here again just for their crepes. 

Right now, Chris is marinating steaks for us! Can't wait to eat tomorrow :).