New Yorker's Back -- Live Updates of Day One Back to NYC

Happy Easter everyone! I'm back to New York City! I instantly felt like home when  sitting in the cab from JFK to my place. I felt like I never left looking at the street views of Manhattan! 🗽

No matter how exhausted I am, first night sleep after long distance international travel usually sucks for me because of Jetlag. This morning  I woke up at 4am and stayed in bed till 6am feeling extremely tired but just couldn't get back into sleep no matter how. I decided to get up early at 6am and do a live update of my first day NYC vacation here in my website. I will keep my day updated here until I sleep tonight. It's gonna be a productive day for me! 

6am

Get up and get dressed. 

7:30am

Ready to get out for the day! Feeling completely fresh with no make ups. 

8:00am 

Breakfast at a nice random street deli. My all time favorite breakfast in NYC: bagel with eggs and sausage and black coffee. 

9:00am

Heading over to Union Square and getting ready for my yoga class. 

And I always love to take a look at the farmer's market at Union Square! 

9:30am - 11:00am 

Yoga class at Ishta Yoga Downtown. It has been a long time for me not doing strentching so I feel a little bit hard to follow our yoga instructor. 

11:15am 

Mani Pedi at Rehoboth Spa Lounge at Union Square. One thing I abosolutly love about NYC is that they have all the nail spa stores everywhere in the city and you can just randomly walk in anywhere and get your nails done! It's so enjoyable having some relaxing time doing mani pedi while sitting on the massage chair writing my blog.

 

1pm

Lunch with college friends. Ordered the cutest Chirashi Bowl at Hatsuhana Sushi. Always great to catch up with my awesome college people! 

3pm

Back home and rest in bed...Restore energy for later tonight. 

5:30pm

Did some shopping for my upcoming Caribean trip. 

7pm

Dinner time! Korean food! 

9pm

Dessert

 

10:30pm

Got home and pack for Puerto Rico. 

11:30pm

Sleep time! Need to get up at 4am tomorrow for flight to Caribean! 

Pear Tea for the Coughing Days

It's the annoying days with my flu. Sneezing and coughing all day long and couldn't sleep well because of this :/ One of the healthy and traditional Chinese ways to cure cough is pear tea. Boiling the pears in water with some yellow sugar lump for 1-2 hours. Then drink the water and eat the pear. It really helps! 

Prague Dining and the New "It" Bag

Finally made my trip to Prague. I was so amazed by the beautiful architectures and the rich history there. A lot of the places in the city give you a fairy tale feeling. For example, the church in the picture makes me feel there's gonna be a witch riding a broom flying out from the roof along with some bats. 

On my way to Prague, I connected at Munich airport and found this season's new Longchamp bag. It is abosolutly eye catching and cute with a little red tick pin that you can pin it wherever you want on the bag. 

The dining in Prague was a great surprise to me. There are so many good places with great quality of foods at a very cheap price. Here are two places we went to that I highly recommend. They both serve traditianal Czech food and wine as well as other dishes. 

ART&FOOD HAD:

As the name implies, this place combines a restaurant and a mini gallery together. At night they also have live music which gives this place a wonderful atmosphere. 

They have special three course and five course prix fixe menu for dinner. But you can also order dishes from regular menu. We ordered the three course prix fixe. 

Bites topped with pickle and pork belly spread: 

Cheese with beets, almond, pesto, basilamic vinegar and sprouts: 

Beef:

U Kroka

Second dinner we had was at U Kroka. Again, great food and great price. We ordered so much and it was less than 50 euros for all three of us together. 

All dishes were tasty and I highly recommend their chestnut cake for dessert.

Overall, it was such an amazing trip to Prague. Everything was perfect of this trip! Would love to visit there again and try some other good places. 

Detailed Info: 

ART&FOOD Had

Plaska 617/4 Mala Strana, Prague 150 00 Czech Republic

U Kroka

Vratislavova 12, Praha 2 Vysehrad, Prague 128 00 Czech Republic