An ode to food.

It is the night before my last final of the year. I am so freaking excited for many things:

1. the end of another successful school year
2. to be done with science (after a rather painful two semesters) forever!
3. to be a senior
4. and finally, for summer and my super exciting internship!

Here are some lovely pictures of the things I have eaten in the past few weeks. When it comes to exams, I think food, sleep and tv are the best remedy.

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict at Petite Abeille

First Yankees game (vs. Tigers!)

foggy but still awesome view from the NQR as it goes over the Manhattan Bridge 

sun-dried tomato and mozzarella pitza from Bedouin Tent

the last of the world's largest strawberry shortcake at Strawberry Fest

the super cute singing card BZA got me!

parting gift: a box of chocolates from Nunu!

one of Yuri's many treats

Bachelor #6: Gian. For the record, he went for $95!

a late night Chick-Fil-A run with Joe

beef sandwich with blueberry sriracha and pickled radishes

signed Girls Generation I won at Korean Culture Night

random red carpet at school

First week of school!

I'm still getting back into school mode, but I'm getting there. I intern three times a week, so it breaks up the school day nicely. The only downfall is that I'm so hungry after 4:55-6:10 class!
On Thursday, I decided to try a new food truck that frequently parks in front of Carlyle: Seoul Food. It is similar to Korilla, but has a larger menu and the items are also pricier. I decided to get the spicy pork bibimbop, which was huge! Easily two+ meals. I was a bit surprised that the truck charges tax, which I don't think food trucks should do because they are a truck and not a brick and mortar establishment. The food was good, but not as flavorful as Korilla and a bit too heavy handed on the kimchi, which I don't like. The guy was really nice though and gave me a sample of the pork.

Eunice invited me to go Megu for dinner, as part of NYC restaurant week. The decor was so cool! For appetizer I got the crispy "Okaki" Asparagus, the Chef's "Omakase" sushi for my entree and the green tea crepe for dessert! So yummy and a wonderful experience!

At my internship, we moved offices from DUMBO to Cobble Hill. What an experience! Because we are so small, we had to do all the packing and loading and unloading—everything! Although, I didn't have to do much of the unloading because we were parked in a school zone and in front of a hydrant, so they told me to stay with the van. I am very excited about the new location! There are many, many more restaurant options (with $5.50 lunch specials!!) and close proximity to target!! Additionally, the building is much nicer.

old desk

old view of Manhattan Bridge

Saturday was a night full of 21st birthday celebrations—including my own! I had Indian food with my friends who were not yet in NY for my birthday, and then we went to our other friend's birthday celebration in Ktown for karaoke! What a tremendously fun night!

my outfit, though I swapped the heels for suede boties

a ceiling of chili pepper lights

I mentioned last week that Pose featured my outfit. Well guess what, I was featured again!!! The app featured my birthday outfit, which was also well received by my friends.

dinner with Eunice!

my week in food and excitement!

Last weekend was probably my most social one yet. I spent all afternoon on Saturday making sweet potato pies with Ben. Much more simple than I expected! Though I'm not sure if I could bake a pie by myself...

our graham cracker crust which I thought tasted like Momofuku crack pie

Ben using his nifty apple peeler/slicer/core remover

apple beehives!

On Sunday, I went to the Mr. Philippines man-pageant to support my girl, David! And he won first runner up!!

All week, they've been setting up the Holiday Market in Union Sq. It finally opened on Friday! I haven't looked around thoroughly, but I did see my favorite molasses cookie booth! I also need to make a stop at the Waffel & Dinges booth!

Thursday was the last day of Priceless NY, where ten food trucks paired up around Manhattan to serve free lunch, on MasterCard. I was beyond happy when I found out the night before that Korilla would be in Union Sq! I got myself a bulgogi burrito with bacon fried rice.

After, my friend Amanda and I went to the Coolhaus truck, where she interns, and got red velvet cookies for a J. Crew event they were doing a few blocks away. Complete with edible wrapper!

Also on Thursday, my classes were cancelled due to the NYU4OWS demonstration. Over a thousand students met in Union Sq at 3pm on Thursday and then marched down to Foley Sq. Though I read it was very peaceful (I was way too scared to go outside since I live in Union Sq) I heard the protest for hours, and lots of police sirens and helicopters.

This week for my lunch with Ben, we decided to go to La Pain Quotidien, though it's a bit pricier than our usual lunch. But it was also raining that day, and lpq is close to campus. I had a smoked salmon tartine.

The real highlight of the week was tonight, when I went to my first cohort event!! Eunice is the cohort director of Murray Hill, so she invited me to her event, dinner at Ruby Foo's. It was so much fun! I wish we had things like that in Steinhardt. I had Korean fried chicken sliders and sushi taco trio (really yummy with the crispy wonton 'taco'!). And then we went to Juniors for cheesecake!! Four of us split a six inch cheesecake. I'm still stuffed!

I also wore an exceptionally cute outfit for the cohort event, as per Eunice's instructions. I wore a summery orange Zara skirt, and made it more winter appropriate with tights, boots and cashmere sweater. And I dried my hair for the first time in forever. Ray even thought I had gotten another hair cut! Guess I should dry/style/brush my hair more often....

Snapshots from the week:

awesome tassel I found in the education building stairwell. I'm thinking of making it into a keychain

Herald Sq at night

antique furniture for the Diesel windows

washington sq park 

OPI in Royal Rajah Ruby 

Macy's windows

working on the rugby windows

I love the Times sq buildings at night.