Day 5 pt 2 dinner and city

After stashing our shopping into our spare suitcase we headed off to get some dinner. The girls really felt like getting steak and ribs and we had heard of an awesome American BBQ house called VIRGIL's BBQ and so we headed off to find it. When we found it the line was so long we decided to wait at the in-house bar until we could get a table. When we got to the bar the waitress said theres a 1 hour wait to use the bar......HOW LONG TILL WE CAN USE THE RESTAURANT??? At this stage the girls were starving so we headed off to find the next best steakhouse. The next 3 steakhouses we stopped at also had huge lines- how the hell do people get food on a friday night in NYC?

We walked for a while longer until we came across a dingy little chinese restaurant in the only dark corner around times square. Despite its suspiciously empty dining room, the girls were extremely hungry which had evolved audibly into head aches, stomach aches, feet aches, chest aches and tooth aches. I decided at this stage, food poisoning would be less risky than double homicide so we went in.

Chinese culture has some facet inherit in it that makes them incredibly oblivious to customer satisfaction. In my experience, the worse the service at a chinese restaurant, the more tasty and authentic the food is. If this is the case, this restaurant must be owned by the emperor of Taiwan (original ruler of China- for those history illiterates).

We first walked in to see the waitress behind the front counter busy with some receipts or something. after standing there for a good 2 minutes i said 'EXCUSE ME, can i get a table for 3' at which she replied without looking up 'wha? sit anywhere you lite'. We sat down at a table and after about 20 minutes with the waitress walking past us without taking any notice, Daisy got up to go get some menu's herself. When Daisy got to the front counter and asked the waitress for some menu's, she was given 2 menu's, when daisy asked for one more menu the waitress replied, annoyed 'wha forr?'.....'um cause we got 3 people'. As we were ordering the waitress got upset that we were ordering too much and said 'too muh fooo! enuf for fwe peepowl' and she stormed off into the kitchen. The service only got worse including the cutlery coming after the food, serviettes coming after the cutlery and the food being snatched from underneath me whilst i was eating.

The food was actually not too bad, and the experience was hilarious- we couldnt be angry because it was quite seriously a joke. On the way back home the streets were absolutely PACKED with people we could barely walk on the side walk. Friday nights are truly eventful with the NYC streets absolutely packed with pedestrians making it difficult for cars to cross intersections on green lights because people just dont stop walking (theres police on every traffic light to force the people to stop). Theres also heaps of novelty characters acting out their persona's like spiderman, cookie monster, mickey mouse- there was even a police batman who was controlling traffic with a whistle.

We walked past the Rockefeller tree again and it was amazing against the backdrop of the lit up building. Also in the square was a huge crowd of people watching the ice skaters, truly picture perfect.