First thing we got was an egg cream from Gem Spa! The guy told me it's made with milk, syrup, and seltzer water...(I wonder where's the "egg" in the name from then?) Anywho, the drink was good. Foamy top, sweetened but still refreshing. We originally wanted to have OH! Taisho for lunch, but found out that they don't open until 5pm!!! With several hours left to kill, we walked around the area hunting for some quick food/snacks. Stumbled upon Otafuku, got the Yakisoba + Okonomiyaki with squid...that was the place I listed for Takoyaki, but I ironically decided not to order that from there...because I found out the place was called Otafuku after ordering! The yakisoba tasted good noodles were not too salty, and gotta love the cabbage in both of the food items!
We then walked a few blocks up north looking for a place called Artichoke Basille's Pizza that Meanie found in the Zagat survey book. Great find!!! The place was small (then again, what place in NYC isn't???) Ordered a slice of artichoke + spinach pizza, only took a few minutes. They take orders in batches because the place could only fit so many people in there at a time. There were a lot of people there ordering slices, mostly artichoke and some Margherita.
The pizza was nice and thick (and big!) with the crust was crispy at the same time! Topping was creamy spinach with artichoke pieces on the top...yum!!!
While looking for Saint's Alp Tea House on 3rd Ave., we came across the Japanese Specialty shop Sunrise Mart. The only thing we bought was a mango flavored crepe stick.
Even though the packaging said frozen, the stick was thawed enough for consumption. The cream filling with mango pieces tasted great!
There was a strip of 11th St. closed off for street fair/flea market, and we finally found where all the people got their grilled corn! Of course we got one too.
Grilled corn was nice and sweet! We got honey butter on it, but didn't really taste the honey as the sweetness tasted more like it was from the corn. The position of the grilled corn looks weird in that picture, it should've been horizontal...
After finishing the corn and the drinks from Saint's Alp, we drove toward E. Houston St. looking for myplasticheart, unfortunately the store was not as entertaining as their website, although I did get to see what size the Moofia blind boxes figurines were.
It was finally time for OH! Taisho to be open! We sat at the bar, ordered 10 skewer sticks of food + grilled skate wing.
Skate wing came out first, it looked like a sheet of dough being grilled then cut into pieces, it actually tasted like the Chinese 魷魚絲 cuttlefish strip snacks but the mayo dip made it taste sweeter.
We wanted the bacon-wrapped scallop skewer, but got grilled chicken meat instead. Also got 2 quail eggs, 1 beef tongue, 1 chicken heart, 1 chicken gizzard, 1 chicken liver, 1 squid legs, 2 chicken skins. Beef tongue and chicken gizzard had a bit too much pepper on them, so I preferred the other skewers more. Chicken skin tasted awesome!!!
Sitting at the bar was cool, we got to see them make the food, and they all looked delicious. Too bad we were already too full, or else I would've gotten a Taisho Don there too. Definitely a place to go back! I think this was our first time eating all these grilled meats!
We drove up to 30th St. looking for ImageAnime, only to find out that place closed at 6pm, and is closed on Sundays! From the window, I saw the Gundam 00 calendar figurines I wanted to get...just makes me want to get them even more now! >.<
We did tons of walking and driving around today, but definitely had tons of fun! We'd definitely be doing similar things when (not IF...it's WHEN) we go to Hong Kong!!!
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