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Eating on a Budget in New York City

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New York City Travel Tips - Eating on a Budget

Your trip to New York City doesn't have to be the most expensive time you've ever spent eating, in fact, it's possible to eat every day for very little and still enjoy all the best tastes of the city. No, this doesn't mean you need to eat canned food, bread and water! It's actually a very realistic option to eat cheap and still eat the best foods that New York City has to offer.

Pizza time

Although the pizza is clearly an Italian food, made for Queen Margherita in the colors of the Italian flag in the 15th century, it became internationally popular as a snack in NYC in the 1920s when Italian immigrants began selling it to make a living in the new country. Not having pizza when you're in New York City for this reason is a sin! In fact, pizza is so good in New York City that many of the locals call it pie.

Bagels, pretzels and pastries

New York City brings together all the best traditions of Old Europe when it comes to amazing food. Bagels and pretzels were brought to America by Jewish people and many of the pastries you can eat at stands all over town were also brought from Europe by immigrants in the centuries that America has been populated. You can get a bagel with filling and a coffee or juice for under $ 5 easily and you can buy pretzels and other pastries for just a few bucks.

Chinatown

Chinatown in New York City is an unforgettable treat. Markets teeming with live crabs and shellfish, smoked meat, traditional herbs and spices and best of all, you can have an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet for under $ 10 in most places. The Chinese community is a mainstay of NYC and one of the best travel tips is to spend a day or two exploring Chinatown shops and eating the food there.

Street stands

Street carts in New York City offer so many different types of foods that its hard to keep track of them. From all American hot dogs, pizzas and pies, to bagels and pastries, through falafel and gyros, German sausages, sauerkraut and grilled meat and vegetables, literally anything you please is available. When you tell your friends you ate well in New York City you can justify this by saying that you sat on a park bench in Central Park while watching a free concert and eating a special lunch you'll never forget.

Tandoori and basmati

NYC is one of the most multicultural in the entire world and the abundance of international restaurants set up by immigrants is a testimony to this fact. You can eat anything you want in New York City from any of the world's 300 countries. It's not a problem to find a restaurant whatever your tastes. Mongolian, Kenyan, Nepalese, Hungarian, Belgian, Chilean, Fijian - this city really has it all.