With each trip to New York I feel like I have to accomplish at least one touristy task (Museum of Natural History, eat a slice, etc.) and I noticed from a map in a walking guide that I so cleverly photographed with my phone (cheapskate) that I could accomplish TWO touristy tasks in a single day by visiting Chinatown and then walking back home across the Brooklyn Bridge.

I had to start the trek with food, so I headed to Joe’s Shanghai to try their soup dumplings. I knew it was kind of weird going to dim sum solo–you’re supposed to eat a lot of many different things, not a lot of only one thing. But I enjoy eating a lot of one thing, so I went anyway.

I was seated at a table with 5 other people (two separate groups) and was immediately adopted by three of them–a group of cousins from Toronto and Sydney. I had no choice but to be force fed by them for the next hour and a half, and only began to worry when the male of the group joked about us getting married and then picked up the tab. Oh no! At what cost, this meal?

Umbrellas in Chinatown.

Windblown on the B.Bridge