Best thing I ate yesterday:
Chocolate Cheesecake from Whole Earth Bakery.
If you’re the type of person who likes sickly-sweet desserts, this cake (with no refined sugars) wouldn’t be for you. But what I like about cheesecake is its creamy texture. And what I like about chocolate pie is its richness.
The Whole Earth Bakery chocolate cheesecake offers both. It was delicious! (I wouldn’t call it cheesecake, though. It was more like chocolate mousse pie).
Dinner was awesome-sauce as well. (Hmmm, when others use that phrase it’s cute, but when I say it, it just sounds weird!)
We ate at one of my favorite restaurants: Hangawi.
If there were a place that was the exact opposite of fast-paced NYC, this restaurant would be it.
(Side note: the two photos, above, are from a trip to Hangawi last summer. I never posted about that visit, so I figured I should post the photos now!)
Having spent the day walking around the hot city, Jessica and I ordered iced ginger tea (unsweetened). Emphasis on the ice. For her main meal, Jess ordered a salad and a strange todok dish:
She liked the salad, but neither of us were big on the todok!
I ordered the clay pot in ginger sauce, sans tofu, but with an addition of soba noodles. (My meal didn’t come with rice, and I knew I’d miss my carb-y friends!) I loved it all, including the fun kimchi, which always reminds me of my grandma. Once, at an Asian restaurant, she took a huge bite of spicy kimchi, thinking it was lasagna. Poor grandma! 😕
I hope y’all enjoyed my different style of posts this week.
And thanks for bearing with my ugly photos like the one above. I am so excited to get back to my dslr and publish photographs as opposed to just snapshots. The photography element of blogging is one of my favorite parts.
I’m too busy being in New York to do an in-depth recap of the rest of our time here. Also, next week will be super-busy on my blog, so I want to concentrate on those posts, which will include:
Next two weeks:
- PB&J Blondies
- An honest post about the future of this blog (and my future)
- Healthy Frappuccinos
- Flourless Chocolate-Chip Cookies
And a lot more recipes. I’ve gotten so many ideas while I’ve been away, and they’re piling up!
Prepare to be bombarded with Healthy Dessert Recipes!
So much fun!!! Glad your trip worked out so well… love finding little restaurants that are AMAZING!
Future of the blog, eh? Intriguing! (I hope you know we’ll support whatever decision you make!)
Glad you had a good trip!
Can’t wait for those recipes! And the ginger iced tea sounds so yummy. My boyfriend and I found ginger kombucha last weekend…yum! Enjoy the end of your trip!
I love ginger kombucha! But I don’t often buy it because I sometimes have bad luck with getting a bottle that is flat. Then I’ve paid $4 for flat soda and have to go through the trouble to return it :(.
I’ve really enjoyed these posts Katie! You’ve had some good eats 🙂
Really looking forward to the recipes, especially the flourless cookies!
Look forward to hearing about your future! Sounds like it’s exciting from what you’ve said before 🙂
Oh my that cheesecake looks amazing! And I’m super curious about the future of your blog!
looks so good!!!!! glad you are having a blasttt!!
I live in NYC!!! 😀
I really hope you enjoyed all of your stay here, even tough it’s been the hottest it could ever be in NY right now.
As a huge fan of you and your blog, I secretly wished to bump into you on the streets. . . . . Except, I wouldn’t know what to do if I DID see you. . . :X
There’s always so much to do in NY. Hope you had fun!!
Aww I would’ve loved to have run into you!
Todok is a root that doesn’t look like much out of the ground, but in the right hands, it can be a phenomenal experience. I hate to say this, but Hangawi’s Korean food is middling at best. In Korea proper, there were some truly good vegan restaurants that blew me away, esp considering I hate Korean food because I grew up with it.
I had this one todok dish that was amazing. The todok was pounded, then broiled, then brushed with some teriyaki-ish sauce, and then broiled and some sesame seeds thrown on. It was smokey, chewy, yet yielding to the bite, crackly at the edges, and sweet yet salty, with a sesame finish. It was amazing. Unfortunately, this was in Korea.
I was at Hangawi a few years back and was very underwhelmed by the Korean food, but pleasantly surprised by the “cheesecake”. I would not have ever thought to order the cheesecake at such an establishment, but the high school girl next to me kept telling me to do it. Note to self: always listen to high school girls on the topic of vegan desserts!
Yes, their cheesecake!!! BEST cheesecake of NYC, hands down. I am really sad I didn’t get a chance to order any this time, because we were in a rush. But a few years ago, I got two slices… and even ate one for breakfast! 🙂
And now I really want to go to Korea!
That cheesecake or chocolate mousse–whatever it may be–looks yummy! Excited to hear about ‘the future of your blog’ 🙂