- Hey guys, are you ready to spend the day with me?
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Today I wanted to share a couple
of my favorite hot spots in New York City
so let's start with a good breakfast first.
Good morning, we're in my favorite brunch or lunch spot
which is 12 Chairs.
It is an Israeli restaurant so it has a lot
of Mediterranean food like hummus, pita bread, eggs.
They have shakshuka which is baked eggs
in tomato sauce with feta.
Normally when I'm at home,
I make a smoothie or oatmeal for breakfast.
But when I got out,
I normally go for eggs or a dish like this.
So what I normally do,
I take a big scoop of hummus.
I put this in my shakshuka.
I add some cucumber and tomato to this.
Take a piece pita bread,
and then ready to eat.
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So good.
It does look like a lot of food, but it's all very light,
like the eggs, the hummus, the salad.
So it makes you full but it doesn't feel heavy.
So we're all done with breakfast
and I'm gonna head to a couple meetings in the city.
On the way, grab a quick matcha.
So after my breakfast,
I always try to stop by my favorite matcha place,
Cha Cha Match.
So let's go inside.
Hi, can I get a match latte with hemp milk?
- [Barista] Sure.
Would you like that iced of hot?
- [Sanne] Hot please.
- [Barista] Your name?
- Sanne, S-A-N-N-E.
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Thank you.
Match has kind of replaced my morning coffee.
Often after breakfast, I like to grab a matcha
and I also found out that it had ten times
more antioxidants than a normal green tea
so it's super healthy.
I just noticed, I was a little bit of a coffee addict
and this is such a good replacement.
It's so delicious.
So when I have this in the morning,
I just really like to sit down and just take a moment.
Another reason why I don't take it to go
and why I don't rush it
is I don't have to put a plastic cap on it,
so it saves a little plastic.
Gonna head to my Pilates class right now
and then we're gonna grab a nice lunch with a friend.
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So I just finished my Pilates workout
and I met up with my friend Regitze.
- Hello.
- And we're gonna go to one of our favorite lunch spots,
Two Hands for a healthy lunch.
- Let's go.
- So this is one of my favorite spots
because first of all, it is Australian
and I feel Australian do brunch and lunch the best.
What's your favorite?
(speaking in foreign language)
- I'm so hungry.
- Can I get the Brassicas bowl?
I would like to add sweet potato and no egg.
Cheers.
- [Regitze] Cheers, water.
(laughs)
- [Sanne] So a healthy salad bowl was
of my to-gos for a lunch and especially after a workout,
I want to have something healthy but to make me full.
- So good.
It's so crunchy, it's the best.
- Really good.
- I have an obsession for granola.
- Also sometimes if I eat something unhealthy
in a restaurant, when I'm at home,
I try to make a healthier version out of it.
So a lot with the granolas in the bowl in restaurants,
I'm like you know what?
I'm gonna try to make my own.
We're gonna finish up our lunch for a little bit
and hang out and then I will see you guys tonight
for dinner again.
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This is my favorite Japanese restaurant in New York City,
Domodomo.
It is perfect for a date night.
I'm gonna welcome my date here.
Well, this is Max.
- Hey guys.
- I think about one and a half year ago,
we had our...
- Second date, we had our second date here.
- So before you arrived,
I ordered a bunch of different kinds of sushi and sashimi.
- Yeah.
- My favorites? - Your favorites.
- Good. - The uni and many others.
So hopefully it will be good.
- Yes.
Thank you.
- One of my favorites, tuna.
So good.
I think we do date night maybe once or twice a week.
I would say because I cook a lot at home, when we do--
- [Max] That's a good date night, too.
- Yeah, we put the candles on.
We kind of make it like a date environment.
But we travel a lot,
so it's either twice a week date night,
or it is two weeks no date night (laughs).
Good?
Wow.
So this is the miso cod and--
- [Max] This is one of your favorite pieces.
- This is one of my favorite pieces.
Every time if I go here, I order this
and I tried to make it myself.
It's never as good.
We're gonna start with the cod.
Okay.
- [Max] You get one of those?
- This one I've never tried before, so I'm quite excited.
Shall we? - Let's do it.
Cheers, all right.
- Cheers.
Like a real ice cream.
(both laugh)
- Actually, the reason I love coming here is
that I feel like I'm in a Japanese restaurant.
When I go to Tokyo,
it looks the same, it feels the same.
The meal's really guilt free.
I feel like I can come here and eat as much as I want
and walk out of here feeling fine.
That's the one thing I love about coming here.
- If I have a photo shoot or anything,
or I need to be in shape,
during the week I can still come here
because I know that the quality is really good.
I think food is so important in my family.
I grew up on the countryside in Holland
and my parents always had their own veggie garden.
Even now, when I'm going back home,
we always sit at the table, invite people.
We always have food there, so we really connect.
- This is actually my favorite part.
I love the hand rolls, always. - [Sanne] He's hand roll fan.
- [Max] Finish off with the best part of the meal.
- This is the spicy tuna, which is my favorite.
- There you go.
The one thing that you have to do
is always eat them right away,
so the seaweed is still crispy.
- Favorite part.
So this one of the only desserts I order.
It's funny because a lot of people ask,
"Do you have cheat day?"
Do I ever have a cheat day?
- I think you just live pretty much the same everyday.
If you want something, you eat it.
Your portions are always smaller.
I think at home, whenever you're cooking,
you cook like a bunch of different things,
but you're not cooking a ton of it.
You're just making a bunch of different little things
and it comes together really well.
I'm so lucky.
- You're very lucky. - That I have a chef
in my home and you make the best desserts too.
(glasses clink)
- Cheers.
Thank you guys for watching.
You had breakfast with me.
You had lunch with me, with my friend Regitze.
And you guys experienced date night with me and Max.
I hope you enjoyed it.
I think we're gonna finish off our drink
and maybe go for an evening walk
and then wish you goodnight.
- Bed. - Off to bed.
Have a good night.
- Good night guys, thank you.
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