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Rain Rain Go Away (NYC part 2)

Flor de Mayo is a Cuban/Chinese restaurant, which I thought was a rather bizarre combination of cuisines, but it sounded interesting. What it turned out to be was simply that the menu was half Spanish/Peruvian food and half Americanized Chinese food. I really didn’t see anything Cuban on the menu at all, which was sad because I love Cuban food.

Ocopa

SS and I split the Ocopa appetizer because we wanted to try something exotic that we’ve never eaten before. It a Peruvian appetizer of sliced potatoes covered with this nutty, tangy spread with eggs. I think the spread is made from cheese, peppers, nuts, and Peruvian herbs. It had an interesting taste, although I felt the spread was too overwhelming. I wasn’t the biggest fan, but that might just be that I’m not used to this type of cuisine.

1/2 Peruvian Chicken

People on Yelp and Menupages also have been raving about their Peruvian Chicken, so I decided to try that. The chicken came with a soup, which tasted awfully like canned Chicken Noodle Soup with some added cilantro. Not very appetizing. The chicken itself was actually really good. I loved the spices that they used. However, it was slightly too salty for me, drowning out the flavor of the rice. I only finished about half the chicken because it was so much food!

Tortilla de Jamon - SS liked it!

Arroz con Pollo (Dominicano) - AN liked this too!

Since we had that humongous lunch pretty late in the afternoon, we weren’t very hungry when dinnertime rolled around, so instead, we decided to just get dessert. Exciting! We had heard good reviews about Veniero’s, so we trekked all the way to East Village from Upper West Side. It’s funny how we will go totally out of our way just try a restaurant. Just goes to show that I have amazing, wonderful eating friends! But seriously, I really enjoyed this aspect of our trip because it gave us the chance to explore some parts of New York that we would’ve otherwise never have gone to.

Veniero’s had an old, retro feel to it but was a little too cramped for my liking. However, by now, I’m starting to understand that almost every restaurant in NYC is rather small and cramped. The menu of pastries and desserts and cakes and cookies went on forever. I would LOVE to try everything they have, but alas, I could not.

We got 3 mini pastries, a mini cheesecake, and a fruit tart to share.

Millefoglie and Baba Rum

The Millefoglie is on the left, which we already started eating before I was able to grab my camera. It had layers of puff pastry and cream that was so wonderfully scrumptious! Probably my favorite of all the desserts we had that night. On the right is Baba Rum, which had a really strong rum flavor, so I didn’t really like it.

Personal Cheesecake

Personal cheesecake with blueberries – delicious! Not the best cheesecake I’ve ever had, could have been creamier, but nevertheless very good.

Tiramisu

The Tiramisu’s coffee flavor was too strong for a non-coffee lover like me, so I didn’t like that one either. I guess I’m really weird in that I don’t really like many of the drinks that most people like. I don’t like coffee, alcohol, or soda. All I ever drink is water and milk with some occasional milk tea.

Mixed Fruit Tart

I didn’t try the fruit tart, but AN and SS both said that it was wonderful.

Right as we walked out of Veniero’s, it started pouring! And I mean POURING! We got soaked through trying to get a taxi because the metro station was too far away, but then we couldn’t understand the taxi driver through his thick accent, and it was just terrible. Oh adventures…