标签： New York

Xi’an Famous Foods, New York City

Xi’an Famous Foods is a Chinese restaurant chain-let that has seven stores in New York City. It offers authentic northwest Chinese food that’s delicious and cheap(although not as cheap as some Chinese restaurants in Chinatown). No tips needed as it’s a self-serve restaurant with no waiters.

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Place your order at the counter near the door, then follow instructions to get your food at one of the kitchens. There maybe two kitchens at each restaurants, you just have to wait until your number is called as in a McDonald’s restaurant in New York. Drinks can be taken from a small fridge near the counter and don’t need to wait. You usually don’t need to wait for long to place your order. If you see many people lining up, they might have paid and are waiting for their food.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art – Asian Art

The Met‘s Asian department holds a collection of Asian art, of more than 35,000 pieces, that is arguably the most comprehensive in the US. The collection dates back almost to the founding of the museum: many of the philanthropists who made the earliest gifts to the museum included Asian art in their collections. Today, an entire wing of the museum is dedicated to the Asian collection, and spans 4,000 years of Asian art. Every Asian civilization is represented in the Met’s Asian department, and the pieces on display include every type of decorative art, from painting and printmaking to sculpture and metalworking. The department is well known for its comprehensive collection of Chinese calligraphy and painting, as well as for its Nepalese and Tibetan works. However, not only “art” and ritual objects are represented in the collection; many of the best-known pieces are functional objects. The Asian wing also contains a complete Ming Dynasty-style garden court, modeled on a courtyard in the Garden of the Master of the Fishing Nets in Suzhou.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
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New York JFK Airport纽约肯尼迪机场入境/交通攻略

I took ANA NH10 to New York JFK airport and arrived at Terminal 7 at around 10:30am. There were hundreds of people lining up at the passport control area. However, US citizens, US permanent residents and foreign visitors from certain countries(such as Canada) can go straight ahead to join another much shorter and much faster line. There is no Automated Passport Control Kiosk at JFK T5.

Passengers going to New York City can take AirTrain to Jamaica(or Howard Beach) station where you can buy a MetroCard from kiosks to pay for public transit fares including AirTrain, subways and buses. The AirTain ride from JFK airport to Jamaica costs $5. If you are on budget and have time to kill, you don’t have to pay the $5. Instead, you can take AirTrain back to JFK to take a bus to the city after you’ve purchased a MetroCard and have loaded enough funds to it. A bus ride to NYC will only cost you $2.75 with a MetroCard and you enjoy free transfers to other buses and subways. An empty MetroCard costs $1. You get a bonus of 11% when you buy or add $5.50 or more to your MetroCard.

纽约肯尼迪机场T7（国泰/全日空/加航）没有自助通关系统。入境处大排长龙近千人。还好我没有傻傻跟着日本人民排队，我看到左边有条通道空无一人，就上前看一下最前方的牌子，原来这条通道是加拿大公民、美国公民和美国永久居民专用的。由于这些人不需要像其他外国人那样拍照、打指纹、付费，所以处理速度非常快。边检关问了我为什么来，停留多久，就立刻盖章放人了，上面写了B2字样。之后就是把海关表交给海关。由于空服给我的是日本表格，所以我给美国黑人官员的也是日文表格，随便问了一句为什么来，看看通关章就给过了。
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