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Lucky Wenzhou Snacks (如意溫州小吃) in Flushing's Golden Shopping Mall
[Photo credit: Lingbo Li]
Wenzhou's fishball soup is nothing like the Fuzhou fishball soup that you can find at Old Wang Ji on the first floor of the Golden Shopping Mall. They're more fish noodle than fish ball: they come elongated and tapered, swimming in a light, sweet-sour broth. The refreshing, slightly sour tang of the broth makes it a nice summer palate cleanser.
Wenzhou is a district of Zhejiang Province. The local cuisine is heavy on rice on seafood and light on oil. According to their official English website, famous snacks include "fishball soup, duck's tongue, uncooked swimming crabs, fried rice-flour noodles, raw blood clams, stuffed dumplings, wonton (dumpling soup), steamed sponge cakes, oil-lamp-shaped deep-fried cakes, double-steamed cakes and dried beancurd." You'll find some of those on Lucky Wenzhou Snacks' menu below, although noodles are their specialty. An abbreviated picture menu with English translations is also available in the restaurant.
Address and directions
Stall 32 (in the basement, the second stall on your left coming in through the Main St entrance with the red paper sign.)41-28 Main Street
Flushing, NY
Translated Menu
An English picture menu is available, but many of their offerings are in Chinese only. I've translated these below. Download a mobile-phone friendly version of the translated menu, with Chinese characters, here.Dishes ($3-8 for a small, $5-12 for a large)
猪耳朵拌芹菜 Pig's ear prepared with celery盘菜生 Plate of raw vegetables
油炸带鱼 Fried ribbon fish
海蛰头拌黄瓜 Jellyfish and cucumber
鹌鹑 Quail
熏鱼 Smoked fish
雪菜肉丸Preserved vegetable with meat balls
笋干扣肉 Bamboo shoots with pork
鱼饼 Fish pancake
鱼丸 Fish ball
卤鸭 Stewed duck
熏鸡 Smoked chicken
蒜泥凤爪Chicken feet with garlic
卤牛腱 Stewed beef tendon
卤猪肚猪耳朵Stewed pork stomach and pig's ear
卤牛肚 Stewed beef tripe
鱼胶冻 Fish gelatin
肉冻 Pork gelatin
高粱肉 Sorghum pork
Noodles ($3-6)
云吞汤 Wenzhou Wonton soup鱼丸汤 Wenzhou Fish ball noodles
排骨汤 Wenzhou Spare rib noodles
拌面 Wenzhou noodles with garlic vinegar sauce
牛肉面 Beef noodles
锦粉面 Rice noodles
肠粉干Dry rice noodle with intestine
白萝卜White radish
Back to the food map
Explore other Golden Shopping Mall basement spots
- Henan and Taipei Deliciousness
- Old North's Fresh and Fragrant Fried Kebabs + translated menu for mobile phones
- Lucky Wenzhou Snacks + translated menu for mobile phones
- Zhu's Snacks
- Mom's Hot and Numbing Heat + translated menu for mobile phones
- Chengdu Heavenly Plenty Snacks
- Guizhou Beef and Lamb Rice Noodle Restaurant
- Xi'an Famous Foods
- Xie's Family Dishes
- Lanzhou Handmade Noodles
- North-South Dumplings translated menu for mobile phones
Or head upstairs and explore the first floor
- First floor map
- Golden Vietnam Bakery
- Jack Yan's / Shandong Dumpling
- Old Wang Ji + translated menu for mobile phones
- Wang-Zheng's Halal Snacks + translated menu for mobile phones
- Nutritious Lamb Noodles + translated menu for mobile phones
