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Hong Kong vs. NYC

New York City is raw, and that’s certainly part of it’s overall charm, but city rawness comes with highly unpleasant smells, sights and sounds. Hong Kong is so wealthy, and it’s so manicured that the raw element is greatly decreased leaving a clean, efficient and tightly run city. Perhaps if I wasn’t so addicted to nature, I’d be more in love with New York City. But for me, I’d choose Hong Kong any day over New York City.

Family Meal

My dining experience was very different than that of any Chanterelle regular later that night — or likely any other night in the restaurant’s previous 30 years of service. There was no ordering or waiting for the next course; I didn’t sample the artisanal cheeses or foie gras. In fact, what I ate wasn’t even on the menu. I had arrived at 16:00 to experience a daily ritual that takes place in 100s of restaurants across the city, and in 1000s more across the country: family meal. Chanterelle was the last stop on a month-long, 8-venue culinary tour of Manhattan. My mission was simple: to see how a restaurant, with seemingly endless talent and resources in the kitchen, nourishes its staff, and how that 20-minute meal impacts the 7 hours of dinner service that follows.

The meal restaurants serve their staff.

The Thrillist Deal

Each weekday, we’ll shoot you an article delivering the best of what your city’s hiding. It might be a restaurant that serves poisonous (yet edible) fish, a rock bar that lists a “Double Shot of Jack” on its cocktail menu, or even a pocketknife

NYC Tourist Etiquette

  • DO NOT DRESS ALIKE.
  • Watch out for DELIVERY and MESSENGER BIKES!
  • DO NOT DO THE FOLLOWING: Walk 4 abreast holding hands; Congregate around busy street corners, hang around stairways or active doorways; Do not clutter up Grand Central Station during rush-hour (8-9 and 17-18) — it’s much nicer around 11;
  • Hey Buddy! Get outta the way! Despite the above, let me remind you that this is a working city. This is not like Washington, DC, or Las Vegas — places that are artificially supported by the hard work of fools from other cities.

see also this memo from the NYC Department of Pedestrian Etiquette

examples of violations include: walking too slowly with more than 1 person spread across the sidewalk. Blocking pedestrian traffic to stare up at very tall buildings.

for your next nyc visit. please also use the

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