My Favorite Place:New York City

New York City is one of the most populous cities in the United States, with five districts in New York City: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island. I used to live in Chinatown in Manhattan. I have been to these five areas, but the number is not many because I only go to places outside Chinatown to try different foods. There are many historic buildings in New York, as well as many modern high-rise buildings. There are also many people from different countries and restaurants and food as well. There are many bridges across the river.

I am from China. I came to New York City by plane this year. When I looked down on the plane, I saw many high-rise buildings in New York City, but I didn't sleep on the plane, so I was awake for 25 hours. When I landed at JFK in New York City, I took a car to Chinatown in Manhattan. After I arrived in Chinatown, I stayed in a Jewish apartment in Chinatown, but one thing is terrible, that is, I live only ten meters away from the Manhattan Bridge, so every morning there is a subway to wake me up. I don’t need an alarm clock, but the first thing I see when I wake up is the Manhattan Bridge because the room I sleep in can see the Manhattan Bridge through the window. There is a bar next to the apartment I live in, it will be noisy every night. But there is a good thing, that is, there is a baseball field at the door of the apartment where I live, and then I can go to the street or the baseball field. There will always be baseball games in the field and I can go out to see the baseball game. There will be three parks nearby, and it takes only five minutes to walk from the apartment I live to those parks. Two hours after I first stayed in the apartment, I went to the school I was going to register in New York. The school had a school connected to two high schools. The name of the middle school was called 131 Middle School. Sun Yat-sen Middle School, which is an international language middle school, where students are required to study a second language. My bilingual class is a Chinese and English class. In the week after I registered, I took my schoolbag and studied there. I remember that the first day of my school was Thursday morning. My first class was a science class. I entered science. When I was in the classroom, my classmates began to greet me. They were all Chinese. Most of them were students who came to the United States. They didn’t have much English like me, but one of them came to the United States. In the year, he will have basic English, so he took me to know every room in the school, every place, he and I came from the same place in China: Fuzhou. But he transferred to a different school in April. When I was there, I went to Columbus Park to play table tennis every day after school, so I met my best table tennis friends every day, Jacky. Sometimes I met Jacky's classmates, they are my competitors.  During this spring break, I took a cruise to Staten Island to see the Statue of Liberty. I had a Mexican meal on Staten Island. I was most surprised by the way Mexican meals were served. Even eating is also true. I went to Brooklyn this year, where I saw my Chinese classmates and I saw many relatives from China. In this year's 131 Middle School took me to the zoo in the Bronx, I have to say that the park is really big, and that is in New York City. I went to Queens this year and I was dining with my Chinese relatives. This year, my classmates in New York and I walked across the Manhattan Bridge. On the bridge, you can only hear the sound of the subway. It is not very good, because the subway is very loud. This year, my parents and I passed the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is really a miraculous bridge. The bridge was opened in 1883, most of the bridge used wood and stone, but it can run for so many years and has to say that this is a miracle.

I think New York City is a very good city, and I will often take a Chinese bus from Albany to New York. I am going to go to the 126 public schools in New York City for a month of table tennis training next summer vacation.

My Favorite Food:Ban Mian - 拌面(Mix Noodles)

BanMian is a food that is stirred with noodles and other spices. There are many different BanMians from different places in China. The BanMian I like the most is from my hometown of Fuzhou, China, so BanMian is called FuZhouBanMian (Fuzhou noodles). But there is a restaurant chain in my hometown of Fuzhou called Shaxian snacks. Shaxian is a city in Fujian. One of the dishes is: BanMian, many people call it ShaXianBanMian, but I don't really like ShaXianBanMian, because ShaXianBanMian Riga is sesame sauce (sauce made with sesame seeds, like peanut butter), but Fuzhou BanMian Riga is peanut butter. Peanut butter is very common in the United States because many Americans will like peanut butter, although ShaXianBanMian and Fuzhou BanMian are not the same as the sauce, the other seasonings are the same. I started eating Fuzhou BanMian from a very young age, so I I think the taste of these two BanMian is very different. Everyone in Fuzhou must eat Fuzhou BanMian, and every family member knows how to cook FuZhouBanMian. When my mother is in China, she often cooks BanMian for me. When I was sick, my mother would cook BanMian for me, or she would cook BanMian for me in the morning when I was in school. But when I was nine years old, I learned to cook, so from the age of nine, I often cooked food at home or my family. I often cook BanMian for my breakfast in the morning.

To make Fuzhou BanMian, you first need to get noodles, but I won't make noodles in BanMian. There will be many people who won't make it so we will go to the supermarket to buy the noodles. in BanMian. Some shops make the noodles in the US. Any Asian supermarket or Chinese supermarket can buy uncooked BanMian. When I am in China, my mother will buy a lot of uncooked BanMian and put it in the refrigerator. Then you need to get seasonings and sauces. The seasonings are: soy sauce, chicken, sesame oil (scented oil), hot water, solidified lard, and sugar. Maybe you can add a little chili sauce. The sauce is only peanut butter. Finally, onions are needed (all of the above ingredients are available in Asian cities and Chinese supermarkets in the US). The first step in making Fuzhou BanMian is to add cold water to the pot and then add the noodles when the water is boiling. Step 2: When waiting for boiling water, we can make BanMian sauce. The first step in making BanMian's sauce is to add peanut butter, solidified lard, soy sauce, sesame oil, chicken, sugar, chili sauce, hot water, stir all the seasonings and add the onions (cut onions). The third step is to boil the noodles in boiling water. The last step: put the cooked noodles in the mixed sauce and mix well. FuZhouBanMian will use chopsticks to pull the noodles up while stirring, and then repeat it many times. When you are done, you can start eating. When people in Fuzhou eat BanMian, they will be served with a bowl of soup. This bowl of soup can be made with seasoning and water, or it can be RouYan.

Fuzhou BanMian is a dish from Fuzhou, China, but you can eat BanMian from all over the world. You don't have to eat BanMian in Fuzhou. If you want to eat Fuzhou BanMian, you have to go to Chinatown in New York because there will be many restaurants in Chinatown, New York. Chinese from Fuzhou and Guangdong, China, there will be many Chinese restaurants, where you need to find a restaurant opened in Fuzhou to eat Fuzhou BanMian, such as East Broadway in Chinatown, New York. There are many Fuzhou people here. All ingredients for making BanMian in Fuzhou can be purchased at every Asian supermarket or Chinese supermarket in the US. If you want to cook Fuzhou BanMian at home, you can try cooking it. I think this is very popular in the US because many people who grew up in the US like peanut butter, and Fuzhou BanMian is made with peanut butter.