To celebrate the first day of
spring and the second official day of
spring break, my roommate and I and a couple of friends walked down to
Chinatown and
Little Italy. It was beautiful out, sunny and warm, and the weather lulled me into such a state of
bliss that I very nearly bought myself a
durian. Fortunately, I realized that the
entertainment value of having a durian in my possession wasn't worth having to lug around $10 worth of stinky fruit.
Instead, we ended up in a tiny
pizza shop. Creatively enough, as far as we could tell, it was called "PIZZA & RESTAURANT." We all ordered cheese calzones and the elderly proprietor with flame-red hair fussed over us as if we were the first young girls she'd ever seen in there. I want her to be my
grandma now. It was a comforting
lunch - doubly so because my whole
tab came to $5.
I need to go down to Chinatown more often. There are all manner of inexpensive goodies,
frogs in barrels, and entertaining signage in an incredibly tiny space. Also, there's all the
lychee sorbet in the world. Yum.