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Speaker 0 00:00:02 As we enter the coldest part of the year, amidst a surge of COVID cases going outside is getting less and less appealing for Northwestern students without downstairs access to a dining hall, ordering food in is attempting alternative to trudging through the winter chill.
Speaker 1 00:00:18 Yeah, the past two weeks like me and my roommate didn't fill out a door dash and it was pretty easy, I would say, except it took awhile. Cause like there's nothing really like that close to our dorm. Like I think I got something from like Chicago the other day. I kind of felt bad. Cause like the driver had to drive like 40 minutes for like my chicken links
Speaker 0 00:00:44 That was Weinberg freshmen, Alex converse, who touches on a common dilemma students face when trying to look for convenient and affordable places to eat and Evanston those from bigger cities and more crowded areas, especially seem to be struggling with the options the town has to offer McCormick freshmen. Nicole Torres explains the difference for her
Speaker 2 00:01:04 In New York city. And I feel like the food options here are a little bit different because there's not that much diversity in what you can order like back home. There's a lot more Hispanic food here. I've never seen anyone get a top. I don't know, New York, you can get food at any hour. And here you had to view like ordering for APM, which I think it's a little odd. I was like, door dash is better. So it's just faster here. I'm in New York doesn't really care. It takes like an hour to two each time.
Speaker 0 00:01:40 It doesn't help that in the past few years, Evanston has experienced a number of closures including that of the beloved 24 hour burger king a little more than one year ago, not to mention the pandemic, which brought about its own closures and halted the opening of new restaurants and stores. Despite that with the help of online food delivery services, students seem to have been able to explore all the cuisine Evanston has to offer from the comfort of their very own dorm for McCormick freshmen. Shresh retaught. That means finding a little taste of home here at Northwestern.
Speaker 3 00:02:12 So there is a Indian restaurant. Um, I believe it used to be called red hot chili peppers. I, they changed their name. I don't know their current name. Um, but they have like something called Indo-Chinese food, which is like very rare to find outside of India. Uh, so that's probably my favorite restaurant cause it's kind of like reminds me of home.
Speaker 0 00:02:34 So what places are Northwestern students ordering from? Here's some more fan favorite restaurants?
Speaker 1 00:02:41 Um, probably McDonald's um, because typically whenever I order food, it's always super late at night and I feel like, you know, stuff isn't really open that late aside from like fast food, places like that. And McDonald's is sort of a classic, you know, can never go wrong with some chicken nuggets, you know, little large fry.
Speaker 4 00:03:05 Alright. So my favorite place to order from is corner on a pokey because I feel like it comes really fast. It comes usually within like 30 minutes max and the food is always good. It's always decent and it's always a hefty serving my main one. I also like to order from Sam Asian bistro and I like to get ramen from there because it tells us in a reasonable time and it's always a nice healthy meal for w in your news.
