Last weekend I went to the Chinatown in Brooklyn. It is different from the one in Manhattan because it has more unique fish, fruit, and vegetables and is a little less expensive. We went to get crabs for gumbo and we also saw a lot of cool foods.Brooklyn Chinatown has been around since the late 1980s. It runs on 8th Avenue from 42nd to 68th Street. You can get there on the N/R and D subway trains. The neighborhood is very crowded with many, many stores all along the block.
Some of the coolest, and strangest foods I saw: eels, crabs, carp, roots of some kind of plant, exotic mushrooms, seaweed, frogs, turtles with no shells, mackerel, trout, and many more but if I tell you this blog post will be eight pages long.
I love discovering new types of food and eating them, so I was excited to go into a bakery and try Chinese buns. I had a hot dog bun, two pork buns, and a sweet bun that had coconut on it. I really liked the hot dog bun. It was like a pig in a blanket, but the bread was really soft and fluffy.
I recommend going there. Take a trip in honor of the Chinese New Year, which happens in early February this year. Or you can go just for fun.
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