subject: The New York City Palate [print this page] New York has always been considered as a melting pot of different cultures and traditions. This can be attributed to the fact that there are so many nationalities living in the city. If you try to discern if there is really a dish that embodies what New York is all about, then the effort would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
To give you a rough overview, there are basically 7 boroughs in New York and each borough is subdivided into smaller parts. It may sound surprising but each part of these boroughs all has unique dishes of their own.
For instance at The Bronx, you would have different cuisines depending on the specific area. You can find Irish, Jamaican, Mexican, Italian, Puerto Rican, Filipino, and seafood cuisines. All these cuisines are spread out evenly across The Bronx, each being popular at a distinct area. Irish cuisine is popular at Woodlawn, Jamaican cuisine at Wakefield, Filipino cuisine at Norwood, Italian at Belmont, and so on. The variety of cuisines you can find in this area can actually get you hungry most of the time.
At Manhattan, you can also find a lot of different cuisines, and if you are staying at a
short term apartment rental New York City has, then you can easily partake of these delectable foods in the area. You can find Puerto Rican dishes at the Lower East Side, German and Hungarian at the Upper East Side, Japanese and Korean at the East Village, Italian and Chinese at Little Italy, Dominican dishes at Washington Heights, and also African-American at Harlem.
If you like going to a popular Island in New York, which is the Staten Island, you will also find great Italian, Russian and Polish cuisines there. You would also have a great time cruising going to this Island and if you have afforded yourself any of the short term apartment rentals NYC has, you can always go back to this great island.
Other boroughs in New York such as Queens and Brooklyn, also have their own set of dishes. You can actually think of New York as a place where you can taste practically all types of cuisines in the world. And for you to really enjoy the food, you need to at least get one of the short term apartment rentals NYC has, that way you have all the time in the world to taste the different delectable cuisines.
