My week in food, friends, emails and piggies.

This week seriously flew by. I was surprisingly social, busy while covering for my boss and hungry all at once!
I had two special dinners this week, one with my friend Ben at Ngam (where he's the only VIP diner) and another with my next year's roommates in Ktown at Shilla. Both were delicious! And wonderful nights filled with good company and even better food.

I hit up the Union Sq Green Market on Friday in search of fruit, and was not disappointed when I discovered this table of fresh strawberries! This is only the second time since living in New York that I've gotten strawberries (which are my all time favorite fruit) because they tend to be more expensive compared to say, bananas or apples. Even though the strawberries from the farmers market are smaller than the ones I'm used to at home, each one is so flavorful and there are no sour ones. I also discovered maple candy at a maple syrup vendor. I'm addicted! The candy is so light and melts in your mouth, with just the right amount of sweetness.

Finally, I had my big food adventure today in Williamsburg. I went to Smorgasburg for the second time, and I was not disappointed. Since I didn't really have anything else to do today, I ended up staying the whole afternoon, alternating between eating and people watching in the waterfront park. First, I tried a spicy tuna taco and white peach jasmine tea from Takumi Taco. This was the first time I've seen Japanese inspired Mexican food, usually it's Korean inspired. I had to try it. It was more or less like a spicy tuna roll, with a crispy gyoza shell instead of rice.

During my first people watching break, the man sitting next to me was raving about his giant ice cream sandwich from The Good Batch. I had never seen these before, so I had to have one too! Sadly, they sold out of nearly all their flavors right before I got there, but I managed to get a stroopwafel. Definitely want to go back and try the more popular flavors though.

Lastly, I got a pan fried cheung fun from Noodle Lane. Cheung fun is my all time favorite dim sum dish, so I have very high expectations. Really, really fresh noodles, and they tasted great with the peanut sauce.

On Bedford Ave, right where the L train stop is, there was some event on the street called Williamsburg Walks. Still not sure what it was for, but the entire street was filled with games and random patches of sod that you could sit on. I watched this life size scrabble game for a good half hour.

To end the day, I got a key lime cupcake from Georgetown Cupcake. Today, they opened a new location in Boston, and to celebrate they gave away one free cupcake/customer all day at all locations.

Snapshots from the week:

a teacup pig named dolce! saw him twice this week!

really happy little girl

Marimekko windows

wedding pics at the waterfront park

My week in fashion and fried chicken.

This week seemed like an eternity—I've been busy busy busy everyday. My week started off with a work event, the CFDA awards (which you can watch online at style.com!). I must say, I think working the red carpet was the most star struck I've ever been since moving to New York. Seeing the designers I love, in person was amazing. You can even see me in the background of this picture of Karolina Kurkova!!

This week, as always, was filled with lots of food, especially Korean fried chicken (which I had twice this week :/). BonChon's friend chicken is so good though, I simply can't resist when I pass it! I've also been trying many of Sarabeth's pastries. So far I've had the raspberry bread pudding, a berry crumble (can't remember the exact name), a pain au raisin, and a pain du matin—all incredibly delicious. I've been dreaming of the raspberry bread pudding....must revist soon. I also went back to Tuck Shop this week and tried the traditional beef pie with a side of mashed potatoes. Wasn't expecting ground beef, but it went well with the mashed potatoes. Today, I had an awesome brunch at NoHo Star with Eunice. I got the french toast, but lost the pictures.

I had to get a new phone today, because my lock button suddenly stopped working last night. It was the first time I've ever used the Apple Genius Bar, and I must say, even though it was crazy busy, the guy I had was so nice and friendly!! It was a great experience overall, and I was so relieved that I could get a new phone for free because I had 16 days left in the warranty. Hello brand new Agyness! I did feel a slight pang of sadness when I realized I had lost my pictures of the Chanel exhibit I saw today (but I do have three posters!), but I have a fully functioning phone in return.

new shoes which excite me

the view from my boss's desk 

catered breakfast from 'wichcraft! 

first time the clothes were addressed to my attention!!!

My week in shoes.

This week I did an abnormal amount of shoe shopping (for me at least). Since I ended up staying in the city for Memorial Day, I devoted the whole day to shoe shopping. At the end of the day I had picked up two new pairs of heels, and two pairs of black flats for work, but I wasn't very happy with my black flats. Friday, I had to go uptown which gave me the perfect opportunity to go to the Lincoln Center Century 21. There, I found a pair of black patent leather Cole Haan loafers which I quite like, so I will be returning the previous two pairs of black flats. I'm very pleased with my three new pairs—loafers, an everyday wedge and crazy tall heels for parties. I think I'll need to take some time to edit my shoe collection now; out with the old and in with the new!

Thankfully, the weather cooled down this week. I think low 70s are perfect. I've been doing a lot of walking around the city, usually with a vanilla milkshake in hand.
Speaking of sweets, I had a really yummy raspberry bread pudding treat from Sarabeth's for lunch after my first 'bad' day at my internship. I realized afterwards that when I said what happened out loud (missing shopping bag of very expensive handbags that was eventually found, sent the wrong color bag to a magazine, etc.) it really wasn't that bad as I didn't lose or damage anything and I was able to resolve them in the end. Also this week at my internship, more interns started, including one who works with me. Of all the interns, I am so, so glad that we work together. As you can imagine in anything related to fashion, there are lots of personalities, but I happened to work with the girl who I get along with the best.

I was also able to go see the Costume Exhibit: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. The idea of the exhibit is interesting, putting two designers whose only similarities are that they are women and Italian in dialogue with each other, literally. Throughout the exhibit there are videos of impossible conversations between Elsa Schiaparelli (a designer from the 1930s,  played by Judy Davis) and Miuccia Prada. I was not a fan of the videos and found them incredibly distracting. I really liked the Prada clothes, and especially the shoes, but I didn't like the Schiaparelli stuff. You could definitely tell it was from another era and didn't quite go with the Prada. Overall I liked it.