{"id":462,"date":"2024-03-22T19:12:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mia\/?p=462"},"modified":"2024-03-22T19:12:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T19:12:46","slug":"spring-break-revisiting-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/mia\/2024\/03\/22\/spring-break-revisiting-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break: (Re)Visiting New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of the midterm season, spring break has dawned on us, and while I try to convince myself to start studying for an upcoming Human Anatomy exam I have, I\u2014as noted in the title\u2014have been busy enjoying my time in New York City.<\/p>\n

My previous blog featured a somewhat extensive summary of the beginning of my spring break. But while VIA-1 was an absolute blast, there is still an entire week of content that I can write (and post) about.<\/p>\n

Granted, I’ve been to Manhattan a few times in the past, so this blog is mostly going to be about food and less about touristy things to do in NYC. But regardless, here’s a short recap of my 2024 spring break.<\/p>\n

VIA-1<\/h2>\n

My spring break started off with a weekend spent at Purdue University for a conference called VIA-1, which was hosted by UVSA-Midwest. I’ve already written a blog about this event<\/a>, so I won’t go too in-depth with it here. But in case you haven’t already read it (which you absolutely should), here’s an even shorter recap of it.<\/p>\n

Essentially, VIA-1 consisted of a lot of family bonding activities, as well as some individual programming workshops to help us grow as people and leaders. There were performances, The three days were filled with a lot of laughter and smiles, and I walked away with so many new friends and countless memories.<\/p>\n

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an amazing parasol dance by VSAM at the culture show!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New York City<\/h2>\n

After VIA-1, my roommates drove me to O’Hare so I could catch my flight to New York, where I got to the hotel close to midnight and met up with my mom.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned earlier, food is going to be the main thing this blog will focus on. And boy oh boy, I definitely have enough content for this section. But I still got to do some sightseeing in NYC, and we did drive over to New Jersey for a day, so there will still be other bits in here.<\/p>\n

Food<\/h3>\n

We surprisingly ate a lot of Asian food over break, and here are some of my favorite meals (click on the pictures to visit their websites!):<\/p>\n

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beef curry udon and beef kakitama udon at udon lab in Koreatown!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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high tea at the Blue Box Cafe!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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take out from tim ho wan \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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souffl\u00e9 pancakes at flipper’s!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sightseeing<\/h3>\n

Though we’ve been to NYC quite a few times, we still did some sightseeing around the city. Here are some of my favorite pictures of the places we went to!<\/p>\n

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can’t go to nyc without visiting times square :3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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a side view of little island! yes that is actually the name.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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one of the exhibitions in mercer labs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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a view from the brooklyn bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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looking down at nyc at night from the 60th floor of a building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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New Jersey<\/h2>\n

For the last day we were in NYC, we rented a car and drove over to New Jersey to spend the day there. We had brunch and dinner at Fort Lee, then spent a few hours in the American Dream before we went on a drive to go sightseeing again.<\/p>\n

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brunch at caffe bene!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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nickelodeon universe in the american dream mall!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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late lunch at mitsuwa’s food court!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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dinner at jumong pocha in fort lee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Chicago and the Drive Back to Iowa City<\/h2>\n

To end off the break, we flew to Chicago to start our drive back to Iowa City. We stopped by Gaijin<\/a> to grab lunch before we started the 3-hour car ride. Gaijin specialises in Japanese food, especially okonomiyaki which is by far the best we’ve had in the entire country so far. After finishing 2 okonomiyakis, we realized we wouldn’t be hungry enough for dinner later, so we decided to eat dessert as well.<\/p>\n

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okonomiyakis at gaijin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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donuts as dessert \ud83d\ude42<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Originally, we had planned to stay in Chicago a bit longer to eat dinner as well, but because the food at Gaijin was so filling, we decided to head back earlier, which basically ended my spring break there!\"\"<\/p>\n

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Extra Photos from my Camera<\/h2>\n

I took over 400 photos with my camera during spring break, and it would be a bit of a waste to not show any of them, so along with some photos already in this post, here is an extra section for photos I took with my camera that I especially like.\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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