We were watching some Gator football at Jody & Christa’s in Greenpoint. I asked about the Yummy Taco (Chinese run Tex-Mex) around the corner. Jody said it was yummy and mentioned that they have a Super Burrito that includes chicken, steak and shrimp ($6.99). That sound weird. So I had to try it.
I went in and it was like any other Chinese run Tex-Mex like Fresco Tortilla Grill or Super Taco Express in the city. They make their own flour tortillas fresh. This place, their machine looked pretty cool. A manual hand cranked squashing machine. I was nervous of taking a photo of it, because they looked nervous of me being in there.
I brought back a big bag of food –the Super Burrito, Nachos, and a Veggie Taco. They included those small red liquidy hot sauce containers like the other places. How did they all coordinate to do that? If I was them, I just put in hot sauce packets like at Chinese takeouts, since it seems easier. Oh! They should also do Chinese homemade hot mustard. That would be sick on that food …sick as in awesome.
The food tasted alright. Just like what you expect from Chinese Tex-Mex. Not amazing, but affordable and good enough. I love the fresh flour tortillas. The Super Burrito had huge ass  fried shrimp in there. Several of them. Pretty good deal with it packed with so much big shrimp.
Dang, I realize how blessed we are to have Tebow come to New York. Now I get to go see him play for the first time. And it was all our first times going to see any kind of NFL game, even if it’s only preseason. I found super cheap $7 tickets on Stubhub. There were even $3 ones, but those are even farther back and I’m scared to be up that high at the edge of the stadium. I’d feel like I’ll fall off the backside.
I asked everyone to meet me at Penn Station for a cheap beer and a slice at Rosa’s Pizza before we got on the train. Only problem was that I couldn’t find Rosa’s. I walked in circles and only found Shonali. We found a pizza place called Don Pepi. Actually we found two Don Pepis. Calls to Jody didn’t help. He kept telling us where they all were, but it was like we were in a different dimension of time and space. We had them meet us instead near the TGI Fridays. Apparently, there’s another floor in Penn Station with the same restaurants. They have another Moe’s Burrito, another Planet Smoothie, and another TGI Fridays.
Anyway, we found cheap beer at this one place with a big banner for $1 Draft Beer (16oz). I ordered the 32oz for $5. And then I realized how stupid I was. I should’ve gotten two 16 oz. Now that I think about it, maybe she did only charge me $2. I usually don’t pay attention and just hand over cash. Anyway, it’s a good deal even if it was $5 because you can brown bag it on the train.
Fast forward up several escalators to the nose bleed section. The seats were actually not bad. I kinda like the view from the cheap seats. It’s like looking at a video game. You can see the routes play out.
I bought Todd a hot dog and I got a beer and burger from the Brooklyn Custom Grind stand. $24 for all that. I had done some research on what I should eat at MetLife Stadium and found this article that ranked this Brooklyn Custom Grind burger as the top food. I don’t know how drunk this guy was when he wrote this, because I was wasted and this burger was gross. It looks like the kind of burger you’d get in elementary school, made of soy and filler.
Shonali also ordered the same burger but for some reason they put stuff on hers. I thought it was a mound of potato salad, but turned out to be lettuce, tomato and mayo. Â I was hoping it was potato salad.
$9.50 Beer sales get cutoff at half time. Dang. So had to get my last one in and ended up getting a $3 Value Italian Roast Pork as well. It was the cheapest food there. Jody got nachos. I can’t say the food here is good. I felt like I was eating at a skating rink. The best part was the condiment section.
Anyway, the game was fun, even though I was too drunk to pay attention. It’s kinda weird at Jets games. It’s like you have to be brave to wear a Tebow jersey, if you don’t want to be chastised by the fans rooting for the same team. At the same time, everyone hates Tebow, but yet you hear the biggest cheers for him in the game. I’d never imagine I’d hear so many little black kids root for Tebow. I know why I like him. But why do they like him? …They must be dreamers.
Speaking of Tebow, I got this new Jets action figure from Amazon yesterday. I can’t believe they gave him a limp wrist.
I came here with Mike and Sam to watch the Jeremy Lin game in the East Village. We got to wing it up. Pretty decent wings, but the nice thing was the $5 big bowl of Nachos. I can’t tell if it looks big in this photo, but it was. That’s a good deal on nachos …even though they always get soggy at some point.
I can’t tell if I’m over Linsanity. I’m Lindifferent?
Day 7 of the Shonali tour: At the Earl with Georgia Firelies and Smoke That City. This is the night I think I started to really get going on my headbanging. I took all the anger I had on tour and it put on my neck. Sometimes it’s hard to be stuck in a van with same people 24 hours a day. At least headbanging came out of it.
After the show, I ordered the Irish Nachos. It’s Nachos but with Tator Tots instead of chips. I love shit like this. That was a good dish to share too. Things are looking better after several whiskeys and some Irish Nachos.
