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February 21, 2012
Eating Penis at Minzhongle (NSFW)
The roster of organ meats available at Minzhongle is indeed impressive. In my capacity as scout for the Organ Meat Society, I've stumbled on a broad range of offal and other variety meats. It's easy enough to find liver, tongue, chitterlings, stomach tripe, sweetbreads, and even kidney, but there' ... More >>
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January 27, 2012
Asian Advocacy Group Says State's New District Maps Unfairly Divide Communities
Yesterday, the state -- after a fair amount of delay and confusion -- finally released map proposals for new district lines in New York, based on Census data. We heard from one angry pol yesterday, predictably mad at the political motivations that often drive the process. He's not the only frustra ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Ask the Critics: Where Can I Try Vegetarian/Halal Korean Food?
Savagecorp / FlickrRob Z. Asks: I am fascinated by Korean food due to watching Korean dramas. I have made a dish or two at home but would love to try out an actual restaurant. I don't eat non-halal food but will eat fish and everything else that is not meat. And would love if it is cheap a ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Beard of Bees: A Stroll Through Flushing's New World Mall
The Main Street entrance of Flushing's new New World Mall Remember the Old Navy on Main Street at the corner of Main and Roosevelt? Providing the best public restrooms in Flushing and haphazard heaps of even cheaper and bigger clothes than the other Old Navies in town? Well, it's gone, and ... More >>
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April 18, 2011
Ten Fascinating Ethnic Ingredients Chefs Should Get to Know Better
Sprinkled with sesame seeds, marinated jellyfish makes a memorable summer salad The last couple of decades have flooded NYC with colorful cuisines many of us never knew existed, and stocked ethnic markets with exotic ingredients that had strange names and fascinating properties. This influx ... More >>
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April 5, 2011
Ride the Wild Wasabi Surf Clams at Yi Lan Halal Restaurant in Flushing
The dark red clams and rough-cut cukes make a very pretty picture on the plate. The surf clams, meaty and briny, look like those southern Italian chile pepper necklaces, and the cukes are jagged, with a profound crunch provided by the thick kirby skins. But the biggest surprise is the invis ... More >>
Dining
March 16, 2011
Eating the Putz at Flushing's Main Street Imperial Taiwanese Gourmet
A restaurant in a remote corner of the neighborhood showcases home-style dishes
Blogs
March 11, 2011
Danji's Hooni Kim on the Importance of Being a Businessman and How He Unwinds After a Day of Cooking
Photo courtesy Hooni KimHooni Kim, Business Man and ChefYesterday we spoke with Danji chef Hooni Kim about merging French culinary technique with Korean flavors. Today he shares his wisdom with young chefs who want to own their own restaurants.
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February 13, 2011
No. 7: Bean Curd in Green Scallion Sauce at Hunan House
Cubed soft tofu bathed in green sauce -- what could be more elemental? Who doesn't like tofu? Vegans love it. Carnivores love it. The creaminess is incomparable, and it serves as a splendid earth-friendly source of protein, too.
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February 7, 2011
No. 1: Appam With Egg at Bownie
The lacy parabolic flatbread is beautiful, but what's that egg doing in the bottom? It is said that a feast of 100 dishes must begin with a single bite, and today we get that bite as we inaugurate a new feature. In 100 Days/100 Dishes, Fork in the Road traverses the culinary landscape of th ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2010
Xi'an Famous Foods's Expansion Plans: New Locations and a Spot in the Frozen Foods Section
Spicy and tingly lamb face for Brooklyn and beyond.Get ready for spicy and tingly lamb face to go mainstream. Xi'an Famous Foods, the Flushing hand-pulled noodle joint that expanded to Manhattan this past year with two new locations, has even bigger plans. According to the Wall Street Journal ... More >>
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December 30, 2010
Post-Christmas Christmas Trees on Clearance in Queens
If you missed Christmas the first time around, or want to celebrate it again, or just want to keep your home pumped full of that fresh, pine-y conifer smell, a Korean man in Flushing, Queens is offering a "big sale" on his leftover stock of 300 Christmas trees. [NYT]
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October 20, 2010
The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday
Welcome to The Best Thing I Ate Yesterday, where we endeavor to remember the very best thing we stuffed down our gullets over the past 24 hours. Why? Because the only thing better than enjoying a meal is wallowing in the memory of one savored in the recent past. Today's fond reminiscences ... Robe ... More >>
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September 28, 2010
Tenants in 'Worst Landlords' Building Narrowly Avoid Emergency Evacuation (For Now)
Tenants at 684 Flushing Avenue, a building owned by Ten Worst Landlord Moishe Indig, got some more bad news yesterday. Citing the landlord's failure to pay his bill, Con Edison cut off all electricity and gas to the entire building, which is in a scrappy section of Bushwick, near Woodhull Med ... More >>
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September 24, 2010
Our 10 Best NYC Chinese Restaurants, 2010 Edition
The "boiled beef with hot-spicy sauce" is every bit as mouth searing as it looks, but there are plenty of blander options -- such as "special spinach pancake" -- on Lu Xiang Yuan's menu. Like an arcing missile, Chinese cuisine in New York moves so fast, you can barely keep track of it. Thus, ... More >>
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August 6, 2010
My 10 Favorite Queens Restaurants
The sel momo at Mustang Thakali Kitchen -- much better than Dunkin' Donuts. This countdown is intended to be a bit different from the other "10 Best" lists, specifically reflecting the places I return to again and again in Queens on my own dime, long after I've critiqued them. The food is co ... More >>
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July 2, 2010
Xi'an Famous Foods' St. Marks Location Closed Today, Open Tomorrow
Get your lamb burger tomorrow.The new location of Flushing favorite Xi'an Famous Foods at the corner of St. Marks Place and First Avenue that we told you about in May is gearing up for its grand opening tomorrow. According to its Facebook page: "The St. Mark's Location will NOT be open this ... More >>
Dining
March 24, 2010
Spring Guide: A Tongue-Torching Tour of Town
Get your lamb burger tomorrow.The new location of Flushing favorite Xi'an Famous Foods at the corner of St. Marks Place and First Avenue that we told you about in May is gearing up for its grand opening tomorrow. According to its Facebook page: "The St. Mark's Location will NOT be open this ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
City Kids Getting All Stabby
A rash of stabbings have been reported around town: NY1 says Christopher Batres, 17, was stabbed by a fellow student at Newtown High School in Flushing this morning -- one Brian Goody, 16, is suspected -- and at the High School for Media and Communications in Washington Heights, a 16-year-ol ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Anthony Bourdain Smiles Down at Us from Heaven, and Delicious Noodles Appear at Xi'an Famous Food in Manhattan's Chinatown
Pictures of the offerings in the window make ordering easy at Xi'an Famous Foods. The advent of northern Chinese fare in Manhattan's Chinatown has been a long-awaited event. First there was a cart at the corner of Forsyth and Division streets dispensing lamb kebabs dusted with a cumin-laced ... More >>
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November 24, 2009
Some of Our Favorite Restaurant Names, Part 3
A storefront in Murray Hill, Flushing, Queens, proclaims poultry insanity. Here we go again, offering yet another picture gallery of our favorite names for restaurants, liquor stores, coffee bars, caterers, and other food- and booze-related establishments.
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November 19, 2009
Have You Seen... Flushing Sexual Assailant
Last Friday around 7 p.m. a young woman entered a building on 31st Road near 23rd Street in Flushing,and was accosted in the elevator by a young man, pictured in this police sketch, who forced her into the stairwell and sexually assaulted and robbed her. He's described as a 18-25 year old His ... More >>
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November 12, 2009
Incredibly Cheap Eats: Bulgogi Sandwich at Sukarak
Salted away in a U-shaped strip mall in the eastern area of Flushing known as Murray Hill, Sukarak is a Korean snack shop and lunch counter that isn't afraid to fuse Korean and American food, with a little Japanese thrown in for good measure...
Blogs
October 23, 2009
Our 10 Best: Food Shops
One of travel's greatest pleasures is wandering in food shops frequented by locals--whether it's a supermarket, a cheese shop, or a spice merchant. A busy market is a reprieve from the tourist's whirlwind of restaurant-eating, where you can catch a glimpse of people's everyday food lives. ... More >>
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September 4, 2009
Anyone Know What This Is?
I was munching with some friends on a giant heap of dishes at new Shandong restaurant M & T, when the waitress sidled up to me and whispered: "You want to try some seafood from my town of Qingdao. Something we only have there?" How could I resist? The tubes were rubbery, slippery, and slig ... More >>
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August 31, 2009
How Do You Spell G-U-T-B-O-M-B? Taiwanese Shaved Ices at Tasty House 18
This Taiwanese shaved ice has been topped with kiwi, melon, and red bean. Mmmmm (click to defrost) Taiwanese bakery and lunchroom Tasty House 18 also offers bubble teas and shaved ices, the latter a summer passion on the former island of Formosa. Your choice of three toppings over wha ... More >>
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August 21, 2009
Our 10 Best: Indian Restaurants
The glory of Indian food is its infinite variety. Think about it. An enormous region--we're including Pakistan and Bangladesh--with cultures that go back thousands of years, including influences from foreign invaders as diverse as the Mughals, the Portuguese and the English. Food from almost ... More >>
Blogs
July 17, 2009
Our Newest Blogger's Top 5 Restaurants
SauceSupreme/flickrPicking my top five restaurants is a bit like herding cats: the list changes constantly, depending on my budget, cravings, and degree of hunger. I have a difficult time keeping track, though I tend to be drawn to anything that features conservative prices, liberal use of spices, a ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2009
Incredibly Cheap Eats--Squid Balls and Black Rice Cake
Left: Black rice cake, Right: Fried squid balls Quickly, the shabu-shabu/bubble tea mash-up, has added new branch at 11 Pell Street; other locations are on Grand Street and in Flushing. At the Quickly on Grand yesterday, there was a list of newly added snacks, including fried black rice cake and ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Pix from Southern Spice
Varuthameen deposits a kingfish steak--wearing a chile on its breast like a medal of valor--in a tart tamarind gravy Southern Spice is a new restaurant in southern Flushing that gives us a chance to sample several southern Indian cuisines, though the food mainly comes from Tamil Nadu and Andhra ... More >>
Blogs
May 28, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC--Hollow Stem Vegetable at Hunan House
"Sauteed hollow stem vegetable with spicy sauce" at Flushing's Hunan House The jury is still out as to what species "hollow stem vegetable" represents, but the taste is wonderful nonetheless. The light-green vegetable--probably some sort of pond weed--is indeed hollow like a reed, and has ... More >>
Blogs
May 14, 2009
Vegetarian Delights of NYC--Noona Vankaya Pulusu
Noona vankaya pulusu at Southern Spice (click to distend) Sometimes a vegetarian dish is so good it slaps you across the face, leaving a tingling on your cheeks and a slight burn in your mouth. Such is the case with the noona vankaya pulusu (it's even fun to say!) at Southern Spice, a new resta ... More >>
Dining
April 8, 2009
The City's Finest Sichuan Is At Bensonhurst's Bamboo Pavilion
No kidding!
Blogs
January 16, 2009
Strange Snacks of the World -- Duck lower jaws
I was hanging out in Flushing with my friend Francis Lam, who writes a weekly column for Gourmet.com. We'd been on the usual run to Golden Shopping Mall, Roosevelt Food Court, and the Peking duck window at Corner 28. We'd gotten a scallion pancake under the LIRR, and copped a lamb kebab ("with spic ... More >>
Blogs
December 12, 2008
Incredibly Cheap Eats -- Stall 38, Golden Shopping Mall
I was hanging out in Flushing with my friend Francis Lam, who writes a weekly column for Gourmet.com. We'd been on the usual run to Golden Shopping Mall, Roosevelt Food Court, and the Peking duck window at Corner 28. We'd gotten a scallion pancake under the LIRR, and copped a lamb kebab ("with spic ... More >>
Blogs
December 4, 2008
Flushing Kebabs Crawl Indoors
I was hanging out in Flushing with my friend Francis Lam, who writes a weekly column for Gourmet.com. We'd been on the usual run to Golden Shopping Mall, Roosevelt Food Court, and the Peking duck window at Corner 28. We'd gotten a scallion pancake under the LIRR, and copped a lamb kebab ("with spic ... More >>
Dining
January 15, 2008
Northern Chinese Dipping Paradise in Flushing
Hot pot hot spot
NYC Life
August 15, 2006
Close-Up on Flushing, Queens
Hot pot hot spot
News
August 23, 2005
The Others
Translating NYC's ethnic politics for Asians and Middle Easterners
NYC Life
May 10, 2005
Boots of Leather
What rust belt city was it? It wasn't in the rust belt. That's why we left.
Dining
April 26, 2005
Eyeball to Eyeball
A Northern Chinese restaurant in Flushing finally gets our goat
Dining
August 17, 2004
Mongols on Main Street
Chinese restaurant in Flushing fetishizes a woolly creature
Dining
February 10, 2004
Chinese Twist
Elmhurst diner specializes in arcane Korean-Chinese noodles
Dining
November 18, 2003
Hot Chile Love
A card game turns into the restaurant it always wanted to be
Dining
April 8, 2003
Great Gatsby Dumplings
Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes
NYC Life
October 8, 2002
Close Up On: Flushing
Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes
Dining
March 26, 2002
Special Part
Northern Chinese in the Valley of Ashes
News
September 4, 2001
South Asians Weigh Election Roles
Putting a Subcontinent on the Local Political Map
Dining
August 15, 2000
Organ Recital
Putting a Subcontinent on the Local Political Map
Long Island Voice
December 28, 1999
Queens For A Day
Putting a Subcontinent on the Local Political Map
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