“TOUR DU MONDE” IN NEW YORK CITY

World Food for a week!

New Yorkers are considered brash and pushy, but the above statement is correct. After all there are not many cities on earth with an equal mix of so many citizens with so many different nationalities. To show this tremendous variety and to prove that not everything the city has to offer is expensive, here a few suggestions.

Day 1. American Breakfast at a typical Diner: Orange juice, 2 fried eggs, any style, Corned Beef hash, toast, butter, grape jelly and coffee. Lunch: Beef Frankfurter with mustard and sauerkraut on a soft bun plus a can of soda from a street vendor. Dinner: Cesar salad, rib eye steak with a baked potato and a vegetable, ice cream sundae and a glass of red wine in a typical steak joint. This takes care of the Western hemisphere’s food! The second day we take on the cuisine of the East.

Day 2. Dim Sum for breakfast: Steaming pork, beef and shrimp buns, chicken with soft noodles or more than 30 different soups and other savory or sweet dishes. Lunch in a Japanese restaurant: Freshest, finest salt-water fish fillet for Sushi or Sashimi or a combination of cooked and fresh ingredient in the O-Bento box, a feast for eyes and tongue. Dinner: A Korean feast awaits us: Bin Dae Duk, Korean pancakes, the traditional assortment of Korean side dishes/appetizers, salad, on the table BBQ with shrimp, beef, short ribs, tongue and Ya Chae, vegetables, followed by a Miso soup and sweet, refreshing fruit. Green tea or Korean beer is recommended. Tomorrow we encounter the cuisines of Australia and Thailand.

Day 3. Smoked salmon or sturgeon with cream cheese and onions on a toasted bagel is our breakfast. Lunch, Thai style, with Satays and Mee Grob appetizers, Panang Ped, duck in coconut, Gang Keow, coconut curry or Pad Thai finished with a fried banana and ice cream dessert. Dinner: Start with Calamari OZ style or a “Cow salad” then on to an Aussie Mutton Stew or Bangers and Mash and end with a papaya crisp dessert in an Australian restaurant.

Day 4. To recoup from the last few days, breakfast will be toast or English muffin and coffee at the local Coffee shop. Lunch: Tibetan “momos”, dumplings, and barley noodles, “Tsampa”, with goat meat are the lunch menu. Dinner: With a vast variety of spices, the cuisine of, India, is our destination today. We start out with some Samosas and Dosas, Chutney and pickles on the side; Continue with a Mulligatawny soup and roti. The main course will be Tandoori fish and lamb curry with lentils. Tea will be served. Dessert is Peda, a cookie with Cardamom and some Lassi with flecks of 24k gold.

Day 5. Keeping up with the spirit of the east, we will have a Pakistani breakfast: Poorian pancakes, Aloo ki Bhujia and Cholay, potato and chickpea puree with a sweet Mango halwa pudding should keep you sated till lunch! Lunch will be served at an Ethiopian restaurant. Savory stews of lamb, lentils, vegetables or raw beef will be served with “injera” flat bread on a large, round serving plate. Your hands and “injera” will act as cutlery! A Middle Eastern Dinner is suggested: Hummus and cucumber dips are starters; Served with pita or aish. The main dishes are shish kebab, “Fatta” stew/soup, lamb & eggplant or spicy couscous with chicken. The meal is finished with apricot pudding and stuffed dates.

Day 6. A French “omelette aux fines herbes” with baguette and “café au lait” starts the day. Lunch is Austrian/Swiss style: Weisswurst, Bratwurst and Andouille with mustard, horseradish, spätzle and rye bread. Kaiserschmarrn with black coffee is dessert. Dinner will be à la Italiana: Antipasti of roasted vegetables, pasta aglio et olio, rabbit or roasted monkfish with polenta as main course and Zabaglione as dessert. Espressi, Grappi and almond cookies will be served to round this out.

This is just a small collection of the hundreds of cuisines at home in New York, from Argentinean to Scandinavian, from South African to Mongolian, from Spanish to Russian. Since none of the meals listed above would break the bank, they could be a nice addition to your next group’s services in New York.

We are ready for your requests!

Sincerely,

B Fischer

For more information please contact Beat Fischer at groups@visitamerica.com