We were down on the Lower East side to see the Chuck Close exhibit, a magnificent display of huge portraits done in a kind of digital pixel effect, at least that’s how it looks, where each square making up the art work is itself a square of art work. That’s the kind of thing you get to see when inquiring at the hotels New York USA and they respond to your request for something cool to see. We spent the cool morning trying to figure out how he did all these little dots, each one by itself added together to produce a huge almost photographic image that’s very very large of portraits, some eight or nine feet high!
After a lunch of delicious New York style pizza, eggplant and sun dried tomatoes, we remarked how much good food we’d had that day. We started in China town and had dim sum. We were seated at a big round table with a bunch of people we didn’t know and it was raucous and busy in the Chinese restaurant. I struggle to eat with chopstick and a kind older lady held hers up when she saw me and showed me how to position my hands and everything worked a lot better. The cart of dim sum delicacies rolled by and we pointed to the plates we wanted including vegetable, dumplings, chicken feet which was a first time for me and they were good, shrimp rolls, spring rolls, all kinds of rolls and the food was remarkable. Later they come by and count the number of plates you have and that’s how they charge you, by the plate. We had big pots of steaming green tea and more spare ribs and orange chicken and things I don’t even know what they are called! For dessert, even though we were stuffed, we tried a sweet rice roll and some more tea.
