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I met Anna and her partner Emiliano at 12:30, and we walked over to Grand Sichuan, which ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
minnehaha B. had recommended to me. The prawns with citrus sauce were very nice; the tea-smoked duck was decent; and the roast pork bun was good and slightly non-standard (the filling was neither reddish nor sweetened). We were considering ordering rabbit, and when I told the waitress that we were still debating about that, she told us that there was no rabbit: they'd had to throw it out post-blackout.
Then we went down to South Ferry, because Emiliano wanted to see the Statue of Liberty. In the end, because time was limited, we got off the boat only at Ellis Island. (They're not letting anyone into the statue, still; the view from the ferry is excellent, and we doubted that the view from the island would be significantly better than the view from the dock.) Ellis Island was fun, but not a Deep And Meaningful Experience for any of us: as far as I know, none of my ancestors came through there, and of course Anna and Emiliano aren't American, so neither did theirs.
The ferry ride out was delightful, gulls hovering overhead and the sun illuminating the edges of a gorgeous cloud, leaving visible sunbeams shining out to all sides. The ride back was less so: the water was quite choppy, and it had started to rain. The sky opened up around the time we got back to Manhattan, and I spent $5 on a portable umbrella.
Even that wasn't enough to keep me dry at this end: the sky opened up, water was racing down the pillars that support the train tracks, and my left foot got soaked crossing the street, even after I crossed 10th Avenue in mid-block because there was no way to cross at the corner without wading. I left my sneakers outside our front door,cattitude made me tea, and one thing home means is clean dry clothes.
minnehaha B. had recommended to me. The prawns with citrus sauce were very nice; the tea-smoked duck was decent; and the roast pork bun was good and slightly non-standard (the filling was neither reddish nor sweetened). We were considering ordering rabbit, and when I told the waitress that we were still debating about that, she told us that there was no rabbit: they'd had to throw it out post-blackout.Then we went down to South Ferry, because Emiliano wanted to see the Statue of Liberty. In the end, because time was limited, we got off the boat only at Ellis Island. (They're not letting anyone into the statue, still; the view from the ferry is excellent, and we doubted that the view from the island would be significantly better than the view from the dock.) Ellis Island was fun, but not a Deep And Meaningful Experience for any of us: as far as I know, none of my ancestors came through there, and of course Anna and Emiliano aren't American, so neither did theirs.
The ferry ride out was delightful, gulls hovering overhead and the sun illuminating the edges of a gorgeous cloud, leaving visible sunbeams shining out to all sides. The ride back was less so: the water was quite choppy, and it had started to rain. The sky opened up around the time we got back to Manhattan, and I spent $5 on a portable umbrella.
Even that wasn't enough to keep me dry at this end: the sky opened up, water was racing down the pillars that support the train tracks, and my left foot got soaked crossing the street, even after I crossed 10th Avenue in mid-block because there was no way to cross at the corner without wading. I left my sneakers outside our front door,
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