Girl #1: He’s coming into town to visit me this weekend…but he says he doesn’t wanna leave the house except to go eat sushi.
Girl #2: Ew, sushi.
Girl #1: I know, right? He expects me to eat that shit? I’m not a fucking polar bear.
–7 train
Overheard by: rachel
Girl: So we could hook up, or go to dinner.
Guy: Well, I don’t know. Is the sushi really that good?
–outside Nobu, Hudson Street
Overheard by: Michael
Guy: I think we should get Indian food for dinner.
Girl: Indian food? What do they sell? Buffalo and maize?
–W train
Overheard by: Brent Jordan
Construction guy #1: Then we gotta fuckin’ knock down that bitch of a fuckin’ wall…in this fuckin’ humidity, can you fuckin’ believe they’re makin’ us do that shit?
Construction guy #2: I know. That fuckin’ shit is fuckin bullshit. We should fuckin’ kill the fuckin’ captain and shit, makin’ us take down a fuckin’ wall that we fuckin’ put up in the–
Construction guy #1: Ooh! Italian ices!
–57th & 10th
Overheard by: Peter Shankman
Chick: What is the difference between the red top and the green top on the soy sauce?
Man: …The red one is spicy.
–Ruby Foo’s, 49th & Broadway
Swedish chick #1: So don’t Chinese people eat, like, cats and dogs?
Chinese manicurist: Ah, no. Ah, yes, but just little bit.
Swedish chick #2: That’s okay. In Sweden we eat fish that has been sitting in salt juices for a year.
–Nail salon, 2nd Avenue between St. Mark’s & 7th
Chinese girl: I hate it when non-Chinese people make my Chinese food.
Puerto Rican guy: Yeah, when Chinese people make it, it tastes like greed.
Chinese girl: What did you say?
Puerto Rican guy: Relax. Italian food tastes like lazy complacency.
–49th & Broadway
Girl #1: So I woke up with beans and rice in my bed again.
Girl #2: Hmmm, it sounds like the Mexican food fairies paid you another visit last night. I hate when that happens…you know, when I wake up next to a Twinkie.
–46th & Lexington
Guy: So, Indian food?
Girl: Do you think in India, they just call it food?
–2nd Avenue & 6th Street
Lady: Do you have a sushi menu?
Waiter: This is a Chinese restaurant.
Lady: …So no sushi?
–Suzie’s, Bleecker Street
Overheard by: Joey
