The pursuit of char siu bao*

And other Asian delicacies was the theme of my trip to NYC this weekend. I dragged my friend to Flushing, Queens - a trip that involves approximately 50 minutes on the above-ground subway through the seedy looking parts of the city - to have some northern Chinese (Dongbei) food with me.

The meal was good, but not as magical as the first time I had some northern Chinese food, but still good. We got complimentary shredded potato salad and vegetable appetizers and ordered what was termed "triple vegetable delight" in the menu.

Part of the reason the meal wasn't as magical as I might have liked was because we made the mistake of ordering "braised pork," which sounded innocent enough, but ended up being not much pork and lots of lard.

The sweet potato with caramelized sugar syrup dessert - the chief reason I had to spend 2 hours going to Flushing and back during my brief trip to New York - did not disappoint. Check out the strings of sugar. Yum.

After lunch, we went to MoMA PS1, which I didn't like nearly as much as I like the regular MoMA. The garden was pretty and the building was cool, but the art was not to my taste.

We spent the rest of the evening wandering around Central Park and chilling.

I have more to say about my trip, but I'm going to bed, so it will have to wait.

*For anyone that cares, char siu bao is the Romanization of the Cantonese pronunciation. For anyone that doesn't care that much, it refers to those delicious BBQ pork buns.