Jackson Heights

Second Annual Momo Crawl Launches in Jackson Heights

Nepalese momo of the type known as kothey, at Lali Guras Momo are Himalayan dumplings, usually round and puckered, but sometimes oblong with a ridge on top. They can be either steamed or fried, and can be stuffed with a variety of substances, often including lamb and onions. Over the last decade, ... More >>

DAISY AGE

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Chicken Festival: Where To Go for Inexpensive Seafood in Jackson Heights

Jalea is one huge heap of seafood! Maybe the last place you'd think to look for great cheap seafood would be a Peruvian rotissserie in Jackson Heights, Queens, much less one whose name is Chicken Festival. Well, FiTR was surprised, too. The best thing on the menu we've tasted so far is jalea, a st ... More >>

Joe DiStefano Launches Chopsticks and Marrow

Veteran food writer Joe DiStefano, whose beat is often Queens and the ethnic culinary glories thereof, launched a new website yesterday called Chopsticks and Marrow. Early articles put up in a flurry of activity cover hot dogs and pizza in Chicago, an excellent cevicheria in Jackson Heights, and the ... More >>

The Five Worst Kinds Of Subway Riders

It's not easy to whittle all the different types of obnoxos down to five, but I love a challenge (if not a cattle car). Here goes: (5) The ones who have no idea how physics works and can't seem to understand that people must be allowed to get off the train before other ones get on. This even tho ... More >>

What To Look for in the Farmers' Markets This Week: Shishito Peppers

Every 10th pepper -- Watch out! [See More Market Watch: First Cantaloupes Appear | Monster Jackfruits Invade Jackson Heights | First Corn Appears] These are exciting times in the city's farmers' markets, as the vegetables and fruits that take the longest to grow (eggplants, melons, dirt tomatoes, ... More >>

This Week's Special: Make Your Own Marijuana Brownies, Monster Jackfruits

See what we've been up to this week at Fork in the Road: Robert Sietsema teaches us how to make a perfect batch of marijuana brownies -- Betty Crocker recipe and all. We love cheap ice cream. $0.99 ice cream in Brooklyn by vans that are called the "Dollar Truck." Monstrous jackfruit at Anada B ... More >>

Take a Guided Food Tour of Jackson Heights

Queens-based food writer Joe DiStefano will guide a tour of Jackson Heights this weekend--not of the neighborhood's Indian joints, as you might have expected, but of its more recent wave of Tibetan and Nepalese fare. The three-hour tour ($80) starts at 11 a.m. this Sunday, June 24, and will include ... More >>

Serial Groping In New York City Is Sooo In Right Now

For the second time in as many days, police are asking the public's help in tracking down a serial groper responsible for at least four unwanted gropings -- and the suspect doesn't appear to be the same man responsible for a recent collection of gropings in Queens. In other words, there currently ar ... More >>

Queens Serial Groper Strikes Again; Borough Plagued By Second Alleged Fondler in Less Than A Year

There's a man roaming the streets of Queens groping women...again.According to police, the unidentified suspect has extended four unwanted feel-ups to women in Jackson Heights since March 22. In each case, the suspect approached a woman, groped her, and then scampered off.This is the second time in ... More >>

I'm The King of Queens! I Visited The Gay Bars There!

Yes, I checked out the queens in Queens. It was a snowy Wednesday night, but there was still some life to be found in the Jackson Heights bars, where salsa and merengue sounds, twinkly lights, and cheapish drinks make your butt vibrate with the excitement that you've decided to embrace the larger i ... More >>

Mung Bean Laphing at Phayul in Jackson Heights

​Square noodles of wiggly, translucent mung bean jelly wobble like worms from another planet, in a sauce of dried chiles, chile oil, and tingly Sichuan peppercorns, with a light aftertaste of soy and vinegar, and a major presence of spring onions and garlic.

Today in El Diario: Alcohol's Deadly Toll

​Drowning in drink New Yorkers drink a lot, so there's always a steady stream of hospitalizations and emergency room visits because of booze, and some of the city's immigrant communities are leading the way, according to the Spanish-language daily. In 2009, alcohol led to 70,000 emergency room ... More >>

Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant Spreads Its Treats to Queens

Unlike the Midwood original, a full-fledged restaurant for Jackson Heights

Breaking the Ramadan Fast at Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant, New in Jackson Heights

Goat curry​Last night, the sparkling new Gourmet Sweets and Restaurant in Jackson Heights was bustling with hungry diners breaking the daily Ramadan fast. Three young men avidly slurped falooda; a lone woman in a spangled brown chador downed a plate of goat biryani; children fidgeted in their ... More >>

Jackson Heights Restaurant Offers Barbecue, Gutter Humor

​Our Man Sietsema chronicled the 13 worst restaurant names in New York a little over a month ago, but here's a late entry from Jackson Heights. Needless to say, we don't want to know what they're putting in the barbecue sauce. [Thanks to the intrepid Steven Thrasher for the photo] Have a tip ... More >>

The Beets+Coasting+Alex Bleeker & the Freaks

From the Annals of Gross Food: IHOP's Pancake Stackers Layer Pancakes With Cheesecake

srqpix/FlickrBelly on up.​Ah, these schizophrenic times: even as the First Lady launches a campaign to combat childhood obesity, the government considers telling food companies to go easy on the salt, and a group releases a report stating that Americans are getting too fat to serve in the mili ... More >>

Inside Merit Kabob and Dumpling Palace: Momos, Achar, Shapta

Beef momos, eight for $6, including a bottle of water​After itching to stop by Merit Farms in Jackson Heights ever since it was profiled on Serious Eats, today was finally the day for a momo binge. As it turns out, Merit Farms has changed its name to Merit Kabob and Dumpling Palace, a more apt ... More >>

Edible Queens and Joe DiStefano Join Forces to Create Queens Food Blog

llahbocaj/flickrFood in Queens: here, there, everywhere.​Roving reporter, serial masticator, and sometimes Fork in the Road contributor Joe DiStefano knows a thing or two about eating his way through Queens, so we can't think of a more fitting author for World's Fare, the blog he's just launch ... More >>

Queens Joins the Edible Family

​The Edible family just got a little bigger: The powers-that-be behind Edible Queens have just announced the debut of the magazine, which is edited and published by Leah McLaughlin. The premiere issue includes a trip to Flushing -- the city's "more diverse and affluent Chinatown" -- with Antho ... More >>

Tomorrow: Our 10 Best Indian Restaurants

​ Check here tomorrow for Fork in the Road's 10 Best Indian restaurants. We've ranged around the city, stuffing ourselves with Chettinadu fish curry on Staten Island, dosas in Flushing, khandvi and other regional snacks in Jackson Heights, and pongal in New Jersey (true Desi-land). We're pitch ... More >>

The Queer Issue: The New Gayborhoods of Fort Greene, Sunset Park, and Jackson Heights

Breaking the outer limits

Among New York's Bangladeshis, a Boom in Underground Gambling

With the economy in a coma, members of the city's working class immigrant community have been hit hard in various ways. In Woodside, Queens, for instance, some unemployed Latino day laborers have taken to sleeping in the streets. Among the Bangladeshi community, remittances home have plummeted. And ... More >>

Roosevelt Ave Dive Bars

Walking around Roosevelt Avenue today in Jackson Heights/Woodside, I noticed that there are quite a few intriguing dive bars in the vicinity. One window-less joint, Ovidios Bar, is conveniently located right next to Sripraphai. And then there is this one, called Bum Bum Bar at 63-14 Roosevelt. I lit ... More >>

Strange Snacks of the World--Beef and Seaweed Potato Chips

Our Man Sietsema Revisits Jackson Heights

A Manchurian Candy Date in Delhi Heights

Jackson Heights rouses itself from a long slumber

What's For Dinner?

Sietsema Finds the Best Tacos in Queens! Maybe!

On the Taco Trail

Our restaurant critic goes hunting on Roosevelt Avenue

Blonde on Blonde

Bangladeshi restaurant in Queens smothers us in mustard oil

Some of Our Top Street Food Picks for the Vendys

Fresh Direct on the Lookout for Indian Mangoes

Dhaka Kabab: The Rice is Just a Gateway Drug

International Ice Cream

Introducing Kulfi, India's favorite popsicle

Crunch Week for Immigrant Groups

Diversity, Equality

Jackson heights was very exclusive. Not only did it exclude Jews ...

Knuckle Heads

Licking the plate clean at Jackson Heights Karihan

Isaan Food Explodes Like a Mortar Round in Jackson Heights

Close-Up on Jackson Heights

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Getting Your Goat

Where in the World Is Dhaka Hazi?

Close-Up On: Jackson Heights

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Some Like It Hot

Queens For A Day

Pop Culture Vultures

Influence Peddlers