No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn – Day 3

Breakfast – Chinatown, and what's better for breakfast than jerky? Ling Kee in Chinatown offers pork, beef and chicken jerky. We got the sweet pork rather than the hot. It's hard to stop eating, although it's not like the carne seca you find out west. This is a moister version of jerky and looks to be made from ground meat that's been pressed into shape.

Lunch – Dim Sum at HSF. I really like the pace of eating dim sum. You sit and eat and point to what you want and there's the anticipation of seeing what comes around the corner next. No hurry, a cart comes around every couple minutes. Eat until you're full. This was also my first duck foot as you can see above. It sounds really exotic, but it's a lot like eating a chicken wing. There's not much meat, but it's really about sucking the skin/sauce and soft yummy fat off the bones.

Snack – Eileen's Special Cheesecake. And, yes, it is special.

Dinner – Bacchus – an outdoor patio, lovely charcuterie, bread, glass of wine – I miss France.

Dessert – OK, technically this is dessert #2 if you counting, but I know you're not. Blue Marble Ice Cream is made in small batches on a farm in the Hudson Valley by a 4th generation ice cream maker. I tried the Cultured Real Frozen Yogurt which was nice and tart.

We did a lot on Sunday. Starting with a great show, "Paper City" at Mixed Greens Gallery. Everything is made of paper including those cinder blocks. Went to the South Street Seaport Museum (tourist alert!) to see a scrimshaw exhibition. Part of the museum is Brown & Co. Stationers, 211 Water Street, where we found a working letterpress shop run by about the nicest people ever. Sunday afternoons they offer "Make & Take" where they come up with a small craft project and you can play with all their supplies, but mostly you get to revert to childhood playing in paper, glue and scissors. Lastly, we went to David Byrne's project "Playing the Building", where he hooks up an antique organ to parts of an abandoned room in the Battery Maritime Building. This video shows professional musicians who were invited to play, but when we went anybody could line up to "play" the space.