Shanghai Tech Writer

I was in New York City for a week last week visiting family. After living in Shanghai for 7+ years, every trip back to the U.S. is always filled with lots of good food and interesting observations about the American life. It’s hard not to act and look like a total F.O.B. when I’m in the land of the free! 

Eating Through NYC

• There’s a mom and pop bagel shop on every block in NYC. Bagels with sun dried tomato cream cheese. Yum!
• $2 hot dogs at every corner. 
• French cruller, my favorite type of donut!
• I had Pinkberry for the first time!
• New York-style pizza with real cheese and real tomato sauce (not ketchup).
• There are restaurants that actually have gluten-free menus!

The American Life (in NYC)

•  Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and Dean & Deluca. Premium and organic food for the health nuts. I can’t call myself a health nut, but I sure broke the bank shopping at these places. Everything is properly labeled! Heaven for the wife of someone who’s allergic to everything!
• The number of people walking in their dog(s) AND picking/cleaning up after them.
• Free Internet access everywhere.
• Being able to access every website!
• Super-fast Internet connection!!
• You can drink water straight from the tap.
• Metro system that runs 24/7.
• $25 for a unlimited-ride week pass.
• Graffiti everywhere.
• Clean public restroom with free toilet paper.
• The amount of meat people eat.
• The number of obese Americans.
• The size of obesity!
• I forgot that it’s rude to stare in America.

Places to See

• American Museum of Natural History. Four floors of exhibition that costs you whatever-you-want-to-pay for admission. I was there for an afternoon and covered only the first floor.
• Metropolitan Museum of Art. Amazing collection of art from since the beginning of humanities.  New York Public Library. I don’t even know if public libraries exist in China.
• Nintendo World at Rockefeller Plaza.
• NBC Experience Store at Rockefeller and get a celebrity’s autography. I met Milo Ventimiglia!
• FAO Schwartz on Fifth Avenue. So many pretty toys and they’re all made in China.
• Apple Store on Fifth Avenue.
• Central Park. The true color of green unlike what you get at Century Park in Pudong, Shanghai.
• Union Square. Free food samples and farmers market throughout the week.
• Carnegie Hall. Life before I was a technical writer and an educator. 
• Steinway Hall. I had one in college, loaned to me by the school, and I slept under it. I want to own before I die.
• Sony Wonder of Technology. Fun (and free) museum to try out and play with some cool technology.
• Little Italy. Yummy street Italian food.

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