What are some good ethnic restaurants in Midtown Manhattan and best attractions?
NYC has an awesome array of ethnic cuisines – with its great Chinatown and Little Italy downtown. If you go to Chinatown – definitely hit up Joe’s Shanghai, they’ve won countless awards for their soup dumplings (FYI – they don’t accept credit cards, so come prepared with cash!). They have a few locations around NYC, but their Chinatown location is the BEST (9 Pell St), but they do have a midtown location. And if in Chinatown, hit up the Chinatown ice cream factory – they make all of their ice cream on site, and in crazy flavors like almond, taro, green tea, red bean, lychee, etc. My favorite is the lychee. Chinatown is also great for bargain shopping (umm… a little shady, but you can get knock off designer bags there!). In the midtown area – there’s an unofficial “Little Korea” (otherwise known as Koreantown) – near 8th Avenue and 32nd Street – where several blocks are filled with great Korean restaurants. My favorite is Kun Jip (9 W. 32nd St), where you can BBQ your own meat right a
