Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. This is the saddest day of my 2009 so far... I was reading some new york blogs and articles on food and found out my beloved bakery, PANYA has closed down after the new year! nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am truly heartbroken. That is the one place I really wanted to last forever until I come back to live in NYC again. I never even kept a coffee cup with their logo print on it as a memorbilia... UGH, I missed my chance. I remember most of the art kids using their empty panya cups as containers for turpentine during painting class.
I know everyone that lives around there or goes to school around there or works near the area is incredibly sad that this most delicious place has left. It was seriously the engine of the art department at NYU. Everyone, I mean everyone from the Barney Building, got their cup of jo' and pastries there. Everytime I am in there without fail, I bump into my classmates or professors. All of us would go there on our studio/lecture breaks. I remember my teacher giving one of my classmates a buck to fetch some latte for him during class. PANYA thrived off of us alone!!! I've probably totaled like $500 just eating from there out of my 4 years. The art building will never be the same!!!! We'll be so distraught with the mediocre snacks and coffee from some unfriendly street vender....
Every single food item PANYA sold was incredibly and without fail, scrumptious beyond compare. It was amazing that everything on the menu was just plain good. I'll miss my extra-large pumpkin cupcake with powdered sugar that only costed $1. I'll miss my hot orange thai tea that only costed $2. I'll miss buying cakes there for my friends' birthdays. I'll miss their other "pan" items like curry-pan, green-tea pan, tuna-pan. Everything was so damn fresh, clean, and happily served by the Japanese workers. PANYA COME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd pay your rent if I had the money!
3 comments:
aww! wow i wonder why! it seemed to be doing well, last i was in ny! i did not go to it as much as u, since my school buildings were not near it.. but i did get my mom's birthday cake from there last year! DELICIOUS spongy yellow cake with lots of fresh strawberries and whipped cream. And they decorated it with "Happy Birthday Mrs. Kim!" lol.. cos my sis's bf calls my mom Mrs. Kim, and so me and my sis started calling her Mrs. Kim too.
anyway. that is really sad!!! i hope MY favorite bakery is still there! it's on 9th Street and 1st Avenue - a eastern european/jewish bakery, with such good breads, poppy seed danishes, challah, etc. AHH now u're making me scared that it might not be there!
and about coachella - i duo how long we should stay there.. what do you think? does ur brother have any advice? And sunblock, that's a good idea. I don't want to be all red and gross at the wedding! i have to like. think about these thigns now!
oh yea, panya had really good red bean filled bun things too! Mmm.. and I used to get the milk bread there too. it made such good toast, cos they sliced it so thick and it was nice and fluffy...
i trusted the bakery too, sicne it was japanese i think... Like.. i like the chinatown bakeries, but they are so cheeap and i duno.. i.. don't trust that they are using good ingredients lol..
aww no coachella???? tell them u're visiting ur sister!!! c'mon, it's ur last free year!!! or well.. that's okay if u can't. but if u could go, it'd be awesome!!!!
and wow, iceland's economy is dead. i think ur american dollars will be very welcomed there
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