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Later this month, I'll be meeting my GF, who lives in Boston, in New York City for a day. We've agreed to meet up at Rockefeller Center (my bus will drop me there, hers drops her further south but a short subway ride away), probably have lunch, and then spend the next several hours peering through the Met before we have to go our separate ways.
I don't go to NYC often, due to expense, bad experiences with it, and the fact that the Met is pretty much the only thing in the city I really feel a need to see. There used to be a Chinese place I really loved too, called Wong Kee--it was the best "Chinese" I or my family have ever had, americanized, totally inauthentic and very tasty. But they went out of business or something and got replaced by a hip joint called "Joe's Ginger," which earns rave reviews for serving a more authentic style of Chinese cuisine (apparently, the kind of food people in China thought was good during the Great Leap Forward, when the whole country was starving--hunks of fried shoe leather served with ketchup is not Crispy Beef in Hunan, Szechuan, or any other style, dammit!). But I digress.
Anyway, I know there are at least a few natives of the city on this board, and probably some frequent visitors too. Can you recommend a good but not-too-pricey restaurant reasonably near Rockefeller Center or the Met? Alternatively, what parts of the Met would you put on your "must-see" list? IIRC, they transported a whole Egyptian Temple and rebuilt it inside the museum; that's on the list. My date with my beloved nerd-babe is on the 24th, so you've got a decent amount of time to reply. In closing, I'd like to add that, recent comments of mine aside, I don't hate New York as such, only its subway system and whatever jerkoff rifled through my Mom's purse before we even left the Amtrak station, on my first trip there (I was eight). Thank you!
I don't go to NYC often, due to expense, bad experiences with it, and the fact that the Met is pretty much the only thing in the city I really feel a need to see. There used to be a Chinese place I really loved too, called Wong Kee--it was the best "Chinese" I or my family have ever had, americanized, totally inauthentic and very tasty. But they went out of business or something and got replaced by a hip joint called "Joe's Ginger," which earns rave reviews for serving a more authentic style of Chinese cuisine (apparently, the kind of food people in China thought was good during the Great Leap Forward, when the whole country was starving--hunks of fried shoe leather served with ketchup is not Crispy Beef in Hunan, Szechuan, or any other style, dammit!). But I digress.
Anyway, I know there are at least a few natives of the city on this board, and probably some frequent visitors too. Can you recommend a good but not-too-pricey restaurant reasonably near Rockefeller Center or the Met? Alternatively, what parts of the Met would you put on your "must-see" list? IIRC, they transported a whole Egyptian Temple and rebuilt it inside the museum; that's on the list. My date with my beloved nerd-babe is on the 24th, so you've got a decent amount of time to reply. In closing, I'd like to add that, recent comments of mine aside, I don't hate New York as such, only its subway system and whatever jerkoff rifled through my Mom's purse before we even left the Amtrak station, on my first trip there (I was eight). Thank you!
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