Entries tagged with 'Flushing'
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[Photos: Tia Kim] Much has been written about Bon Chon, the first Korean fried chicken chain in the states that made Americans put down their KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) for a different KFC (Korean Fried Chicken). However, two of...
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[Photos: Joe DiStefano] Queens offers every kind of Asian food: Indian, Indonesian, Korean, Thai, and a plethora of regional Chinese. The void in this wonderland of ethnic eats has always been the bánh mì, or Vietnamese sandwich. This is...
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[Photo: Kathy Chan] I am familiar with this Asian dessert, here accurately if unappealingly called a "sesame bean paste rice ball": black sesame paste stuffed in soft mochi, and served in a soup of fermented rice. The hot liquid...
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[Photos: Robyn Lee] Chinese malls teeming with eateries and snack shops, Chinese grocery stores within blocks of Korean markets—Flushing, Queens is a go-to area for Asian food. A trip to Flushing wouldn't be complete without eating dim sum at...
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[Photos: Joe DiStefano] The awning for Guangyuan Jinweishifang depicts a steaming bowl of noodle soup. Sure enough, just inside the doorway of this new restaurant on a bustling block in Flushing's Chinatown, there's a gent making hand-pulled noodles. I...
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[Photos: The Eaten Path] Ganesha Temple, in Flushing, Queens, is one of the oldest Hindu worship sites in the United States, according to James at The Eaten Path. But even more fun might be the cafeteria in the basement...
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[Photos: Robyn Lee] Serious Eater and AHT Editor Robyn Lee, otherwise known as The Girl Who Ate Everything, eats her way through Flushing, with characteristically stunning documentation. On the menu: Dungeness crab, pork stomach soup, shaved ice, "pimple tea,"...
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[Ripert, second from left; DiStefano; Bourdain. Photograph: Michael Scott Berman] No one knows more about Queens than our man Joe DiStefano, so we're not at all surprised that Edible Queens tapped him to write the feature piece in their...
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[Photographs: Joe DiStefano] When I'm in Flushing's Chinatown, no matter what regional cuisine I eat—Hunan, Sichuan, Taiwan, or Xi'an—it's almost always accompanied by an ice-cold Tsingtao. The crisp lager cools and refreshes the palate, readying it for the next...
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Editor’s note: As Metromix reported, the food offerings at this year’s U.S. Open are several cuts above the usual ballpark fare. There’s the half-pound U.S. Open Burger, Philly Cheesesteaks, crepes (both sweet and savory), lobster rolls, Carnegie Deli corned beef...
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