New York: Concrete Jungle Built for Carnivores

What is more quintessentially New York than Time Square, Baseball at Yankee stadium and a GIANT US Flag at Wall st!!

Now, I know some of you will bring up The Statue of Liberty and other famed land marks, and rightfully so! And that's just the point, New York has so many noteworthy, cliche images jam packed into one city, that its almost impossible to cram into one review!

So lets grab the bull by its balls (...or horns), and get down to a review.

As with any city in the States, New York has outstanding junk food options at reasonably cheap prices. In fact you can build your trip around the food; adding sight seeing as a secondary activity to food! Checkout the portion sizes of the meal below it's just diabolical... 

 One food joint that is a must for any would be New York visitor is Katz's Delicatessen. The place has history (Their story began in 1888... WOW) and has an awesome menu of MEAT. Think smokey, juicy goodness of Pastrami perfection or Katz's baked Briskets or even their bowl of meat chilli. The List of meat, sandwich and side combinations are close to endless!

Even a Visit to the Baseball can be an activity delving into a gastronomical experience. I went to a Yankees game and I saw why it was a favourite past time of many an American/New Yorker.

Firstly the Tickets are cheap, for instance you'd only expect to part ways with about $20.00 and be happy with nosebleed seats, if you were only after the "experience" for diehards, expect to pay through the nose for anything closer. AU$130 was the order of the day.

For me, the fact that I was at the game, was enough. The Stadium was impeccable, think the Sydney Cricket Ground on Steroids and times that image in your head by 20. The vastness is scary.


Going along with the theme of building my trip around food, leaving sightseeing as a secondary activity. I must draw your attention to what Yankee stadium calls the BUCKET!


This thing is a food Goliath, and explains a lot about the perceived excess the Americans enjoy. Put bluntly for the price of $20 this "bucket" had a base of 4 Burgers, 12 pieces of chicken, Chicken strips, mountains of fries, topped with you guessed it 4 more burgers!! Now my good friends paid with a Mastercard and that allowed us to supersize (Thank god we refrained) and get a free 1.5l soda just for good measure.

If food isn't your thing, and the idea of building a whole holiday around it disgusts you and you've done the cliche landmark spotting, then you are in luck. New York boasts many other attractions, that aren't cliche. For instance, I was fortunate to visit the Museum of Modern Art. This museum makes Sydney's version almost insignificant. The abundance of pieces that amaze and capture the imagination is almost limitless. I saw a PICASSO WOW!!