NYC - Chinatown

Walking in NYC is the way to go. Especially when your friend's kids want brand name purses. Of course these purses normally cost over $100 - at least. In NYC however you can find street vendors selling the knock offs for $15-20 so we headed to Chinatown on advice of co-workers. We get there and no street vendors however there are those who will lead you to their wares. They stand on the corner: "Purses? You want purses?" then they lead the unsuspecting tourist to make a purchase. The first person to do this made us a bit nervous as the stairwell she wanted us to follow her to didn't look too promising! The second one didn't look as threatening so my friend went up while I waited on the street. Her theory - our cell phones worked and she had hers ready to call me with one touch. Her efforts paid off as she found not only purses for her kids, but one for herself too! Her mistake was telling her mom and she had to repeat the adventure another night :)
We went back to Chinatown to find a place to eat the next night. Finding the restaurant wasn't as adventurous as the purse search however we did get to see the Chinatown markets - definitely an interesting set up! The restaurant was found and food delicious though the service was SLOW. My friend and I decided it was us it seemed everywhere we ate during the week had really slow service JUST for our table. Go figure.....