Day 11 Google & Khyber Pass

For lunch we went and visited our friend Greg Travis at Google New York. A truly bizarre place full of strange corridors and razor scooters.

Greg brought us to the cafeteria where their was such a huge variety of food I couldn't see why anyone working there wouldn't just bring there laptop in there and eat all day. That's what I would do even if the food was a little mediocre.

I can't really remember what I had, some salad and soup and some rock hard chicken. I do remember that when I followed the arrow pointing to the bathroom I was led to a strange area that seemed to be part of another building. I couldn't get out of this area without a security code. I almost panicked then I just followed someone else in, even if there where signs everywhere saying "beware of tailgaters".

Weird!

Dinner was also a weird environment but with much better food. We ate at Khyber Pass, an Afghan restaurant in the heart of St. Marks Place.

I'd never had Afghan food before so I was exited to try is out. I got a sort of lamb spinach stew thing. It was quite tasty. It was like a cross between indian food, middle eastern food and for some reason Philippine food.

The weird part of the visit was the thing we sat on. It was an elevated sort of booth/coach that your supposed to sit cross legged at like at some Japanese restaurants. The only problem was there was literally no place to put your feet. It was the most uncomfortably seating situation I've ever had and it looked so comfy at first.

Anyways the food was great and we sat at the only table that had this strange set up so I'd still suggest it.

Apparently I Eat a Lot of Eggplant

We had lunch at New York Google's cafeteria with our friend Greg. I reverted to my old Google cafeteria behavior of just making a salad at the salad bar to avoid lines at the grill and to avoid the temptation to eat way way too much. Of course I also grabbed one (or two) of the desserts at the end, which included a cake-like vegan cherry cookie. The food was good and the view of the city was amazing.

We met up with my friend Mike for dinner on St. Mark's after visiting the Museum of Sex where we learned about homosexual penguins. We went to an Afghan place, Khyber Pass, and sat at the window table, which was raised up on a platform so you could sit cross legged on long pillows to eat. The atmosphere was cool (literally and figuratively) which was a welcome break from walking the avenues in hot humid weather. I had eggplant with yogurt, which was a nice consistency and filling without being heavy. I can't remember ever having eaten Afghan food, but I would definitely seek it out again.

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