Is what most people will tell you about eating in New York. And they're right, there's pizza everywhere (nice thin stuff), tons of independent places that have spent the last 30 years perfecting a menu of dishes and building up a local reputation, and tons more besides.
What people won't tell you about eating in New York is that you shouldb't be sucked into eating a big American breakfast. As tasty as it looks, it is guranteed to make you feel like your world is about to end:
It will also leave you counting up big green stacks before you've even thought about what to do that day.
All the best meals are saved for later on in the day in order to let you go straight to bed once you've finished them. And whatever you do, when you order Dr Pepper with your meal and the waitress says they don't sell it but they do sell Dr Brown's Root Beer (which is pretty much the same thing), don't believe her. It's really nothing like Dr Pep, and everything like Listerine (literally - it tastes so much like Listerine I don't know how they get away with it).
Basically, New York's biggest tourist trap is not 42nd St or the Statue of Liberty, it's letting your greed get the better of you and eating far more than you can stomach / afford everyday. If you can avoid doing this 3 times a day, you'll be a lot less noticable as a tourist and probably won't get mugged or anything, you won't even have to wear a money belt you'll be looking like such a slick 'New Yoiker'.
Ps, Why did the New Yorker go to sleep under his car?
He wanted to wake up oily.
