It smells like Chinatown...

Our 3rd day started with our very first taxi ride! In the famous yellow New York taxis. We risked our lives going out onthe trafficked streets to flag one down. The taxis doesn´t look like the ones on the show Sex in the City, they are dirtier and has more security precautions.

We took this taxi to the Lower East Side, to the most amazing restaurant for brunch. Stanton Social is a very trendy place with great decorations and food. The interior is in fall colours, very fitting for our October-brunch.


The brunch was amazing. At Stanton Social you eat social style, just as we did at Mara´s homemade. This (photo) was our first course, buttermilk and banana pancakes and donuts. You would think this was to sweet a meal for brunch, but it is not. It´s simply delicious.

Full and happy from the breakfast at Stanton we walked around at the Lower East Side, looking into vintage shops and admiring Lacroix shoes at $ 700 a pair.

Suddenly everything went Chinese. We were in Chinatown!


Chinatown is very different. This is an example of what you see in Chinatown:




This day was the day of walking, so we walked all through Chinatown, Little Italy, the government area and down to South Street Seaport.

As you can see, this is very different from the other areas of New York. It´s charming and much calmer. The best thing about this area must be the blue marble ice cream at the café "Jack´s".

Day three wasn´t only "Walking Day", but also "Brooklyn Day". The Brooklyn Bridge is long, crowded and beautiful. It was so bizarre walking over it when I´ve seen Spiderman and Fantastic Four.

In Brooklyn we went shopping, and I bought my first ever piece of vintage clothing!


Our dinner we got from Grimaldi´s , the best pizza in town. We stood in line for an hour, and eat it on the subway!