This ubiquitous 'Open 24 Hours' sign can be seen in many restaurants/diners in the city. When I lived in Astoria (northwest of Queens) in the late 1990s, there was a wonderful, spiffy Greek diner a few steps from my apartment where I could order one half of a roast chicken with garlic mash potatoes and a side salad (for less than US$10) at 3:00 AM in the morning.Granted, roast chicken isn't everyone's idea of a midnight snack but it was for me back then. Now, I rarely pull stunts like that anymore. With old(er) age, comes indigestion. :-)
So what is your idea of a midnight snack?
13 comments:
I hear ya about the indigestion. My midnight snack is usually TUMS!
Midnight would be when my cheese gremlin comes to life. I've never experienced any correlation between eating cheese and bad dreams, which completely baffles British people, who seem to have built up some folk mythology around it.
Fruit, tapioca, leftovers. Anything in the fridge really.
I'll very often fix a latte as a bedtime snack. And yes, with caffeine. Keeps my blood from parking overnight :)
A few pieces of dark chocolate... sweet pleasures of the night - hmm, one of them!
lol, Ming. The whole 24/7 food places crack me up a little.
I especially love Koreatown. Love, love, love.
I love Mexican but it always gives me indigestion so i know what you're saying!
I like neon signs and this is a good one. Nice shot.
At 3am I sleep, moi!
But, I suddenly crave a marvelous simple grilled fish with lemon like they do in those Greek restaurants in Astoria.
With old(er) age also comes the slooowing doooown of the metabolism. So the rule becomes: whenever possible, no food after 7 or 7:30. (But if I WAS going to have a midnight snack, make mine ice cream!)
A good chocolate cookie will do :)
Dark chocolate, potato chips, some cold leftover roast chicken [minus the potatoes and side salad]... any of these will do the trick for me. One night on the way home from a bar we'd closed, my wife and I stopped at a convenience store so I could get some of the aforementioned chips. When I asked her if she wanted anything, she described some exquisite Vietnamese dish we'd had in another city. I said, "Yeah, they've probably got something just like that here."
Great shot!
berries :-)
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