On Thursday, our class went on a tour of Port Richmond. We got to walk around the neighborhood and go into all different types of grocery stores and restaurants. Culture has a huge impact on this neighborhood and it is very different then my own culture so I was very intrigued by it. Port Richmond is filled with a variety of restuarants including Mexican, Chinese and even Peruvian. At the begining of the tour, our tour guide asked the class to count all the restaurants we saw. I couldn’t even keep count because there was just so many and I was too busy trying to learn about all of them. At the end of the tour we were able to stay and eat guac and chips inside a small Mexican restaurant with the class. The guac was made right then and there, it was so refreshing after all the walking we did outside in the sun. People in this town take there culture very seriously and it made me realize how diverse all cultures really are.

During the tour, we entered a local market filled with fruits and vegetables and other foods I had never seen before. The store provided all sorts of foods, one being a mexican cactus plant called Nopal. Nopal is a common ingredient in numerous Mexican cuisine dishes.This was a very important ingredient in New Mexican cuisine. As I looked around the store, I was overwhelmed with all the different fruits and vegetables I had never seen before, but I was so curious to find out what they were. I really enjoyed this tour and I am happy I got to  see what this town provided. Wagner College is only a short distance from Port Richmond and I feel it was important that my class go to experience this and see how diverse culture really is.