We started out in super touristy Times Square, stopped at
St. Patrick’s to get my mom a souvenir. After a few wrong turns, we found the
Cinnamon Snail food truck. All vegan,
sandwiches, chili, amazing baked goods. I got the portobello sandwich, with capers, olive tapenade and
arugula on chibatta. Olives are the only food I generally avoid, but the
sandwich, olives and all, was amazing. If you live in New York, this and all my
posts this week will probably be very boring to you, but I am a practically professional seeker of
delicious vegan food, and I have been crazy excited about all the choices here.
We took our food to Central Park. The park is beautiful, but
all those carriage horses suffering made me sad and angry. Here is a list of
what is wrong with the carriage horse industry in NYC. I knew I wouldn’t want
to stand by and do nothing about it, so before I left for the trip, I printed
out copies of the list to give to people that looked like they were thinking
about taking a ride, but we did not give out very many. We’ll be back on
Saturday to give out the rest. WAR is going to send me a file with a better
brochure to hand out. Let me know if you go to NYC and want to do some
leafleting.
Next stop was Tom’s Restaurant, the diner that Seinfeld and
his friends supposedly went to all the time. Of course, it didn’t look the same
inside, since the show was filmed in California, and the menu was so NOT
vegan-friendly, so we booked it back over to Midtown to Fashion Ave, which was
also a bust. Pj, our friend that’s getting married and we are here visiting,
didn’t find the accessories she wanted for her wedding outfit.
Then we took the
subway Chinatown – Vegetarian Dim Sum Restaurant. I had no idea what to order,
I’ve only gotten dim sum once in my life, so I just picked out 6 things. Most of them were kind of weird. I’m a pretty
adventurous eater, my motto is generally “if its vegan its for me!” so I liked
everything except one thing. I think we ordered: monk rolls, rice with Chinese
kale (this was the yucky one), spring rolls, dumplings, and.... other dumplings.
After that we hauled over to Lula's
Sweet Apothecary in East
Village. I was ridiculously sad that their soft serve machine was broken and
they had to order a new one. So, I sampled the butterscotch, peanut butter
& maple, and strawberry flavors of their regular ice cream. They make their
own cashew-based ice cream. I got a cone of the butterscotch kind, though I
wish I also tried the orange blossom kind first.
We managed to do almost everything on our list for the day,
except hit up Trader Joe’s. There’s no Trader Joe’s in Orlando, and we’ve heard
that the new one in Sarasota (closest one to Orlando, 2.5 hours away) is sold
out of stuff all the time.
- Jessi
