I'm glad you had a good time and are home safe! I think NYers have to be abrupt because it's so intense there, but they're not always be bad. It probably helps to clearly be a clueless tourist.
Toasted bagels with cream cheese are very good. I forgive cream cheese for being the most annoying ingredient in American recipes because I can't get it here in supermarkets.
As an ex-Montrealer I have to stan for Montreal-style bagels, but cream cheese is the best. (Can you get soft goat cheese? It would probably be an ok substitute. Slightly stronger in cheesiness.) Montreal is also similar to NYC in terms of having a huge Jewish diaspora, so it was weird when I moved and discovered that not everyone grew up getting Jewish holidays off school, hee.
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Toasted bagels with cream cheese are very good. I forgive cream cheese for being the most annoying ingredient in American recipes because I can't get it here in supermarkets.
As an ex-Montrealer I have to stan for Montreal-style bagels, but cream cheese is the best. (Can you get soft goat cheese? It would probably be an ok substitute. Slightly stronger in cheesiness.) Montreal is also similar to NYC in terms of having a huge Jewish diaspora, so it was weird when I moved and discovered that not everyone grew up getting Jewish holidays off school, hee.