Queens Bites 2025 (Flushing, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Astoria, LIC, Sunnyside, and beyond)

I’m so jealous of all you guys in this thread, I need to move to flushing

bisebelebath is good stuff - have you tried it there yet?

I think it includes cream cheese in the batter (like japanese cheesecake).

Or just visit, like we do?

Not yet. I usually make it when I have leftover sambhar from something else.

Dosa Hutt comfort classics — idli, vada, rava dosa. The dosa was perfectly crisp and delicious, though somehow not lacy today. Sambhar on point. Chutney actually had coconut (unlike the temple canteen of late).

I’ve been visiting for like 25 years now, but would love more action!

It’s almost too much action

An article about the Tangram Mall, where a bunch of us went in March after the New York Food Court.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/nyregion/tangram-mall-flushing-queens-nyc.html?

@DaveCook was good enough to recommend dishes at Taiwanese gourmet in elmhurst. this ooey gooey oyster pancake was delicious as was the three cup chicken. I do prefer 3cc prepared with more Thai basil, still, this prep was deeply satisfying.

I noticed a lot of tables eating fried (stinky?) tofu and Chinese chives with pork (I think)

Thought this was interesting:

Anyone try a Korean restaurant called Chung Moo in downtown flushing? My kind of menu:

https://chung-moo.square.site/s/order#2

I had a nice chilled mul nang-myun at Chung Moo several summers ago, and a generously stuffed omelette rice several Septembers before that.

Thanks Dave, yup, that omelette caught my eye as did some of the other comfort food. The blood sausage photo from the menu looks incredible! Actually, I’m hard pressed to find anything on menu I wouldn’t like to eat.

I loved kisa but to my eye, kisa is a faux-taxicab joint while cm looks to be the real thing.

Best,

all those kimchi soups, not to mention stuff like rice cakes appealed greatly, including all the super starchy stuff I am trying hard to avoid right now! Looks like it would be a fun lunch destination.

Lox with honey mustard and toasted almonds, one of several varieties; fried gefilte fish awaiting mushroom sauce; and a spicy Moroccan-style fish stew from Yitzchok’s Herring, 7214 Main St., Kew Gardens Hills, Queens (all of these graciously comped). I nibbled at the first two items incessantly, but the Moroccan fish I devoured in one go.

this looks good - is there a particular Jewish cuisine represented or is it entirely eclectic?
It was interesting to find out that herring was a common food in some mediterranean cuisines, including egypt.

I have not a clue.

@DaveCook , @Saregama and I grabbed a quick lunch at Malay Restaurant (135-17 40th Rd.) in Flushing this week. We ate, in order of my liking, green beans and shrimp belacan (extra roasty sambal provided), a comforting dish of pearl noodles and a platter of lobak (5-spice seasoned pork wrapped with bean curd skin and fried along with some fritters with seafood and veg and some hunks of fried beancurd, sided by a bowl of (non-sweet) chile sauce. The main pork lobak itself was good, the other items were stodgy and may have been refried.

Note, most of the people in the resto seemed to be eating their hainan chicken rice and rendang, which we did not sample.
I then ordered a couple of dishes to go, okra and shrimp belacan and stir fried chinese broccoli, the latter topped with shreds of sizzled ginger and silver fish, for husband Jim’s (and my) supper.

it was supplemented when Dave led us directly across the street to explore an almost empty alley he had found - in it was a tiny Malaysian shop with Hainan chicken rice and some desserts and other items.
I ordered the chicken rice (they have the option of all dark meat as alternative to the breast ) and a typical not very sweet coconut milk soupy dessert with assorted beans, potato cubes and tapioca bits, very nice. They had containers of the chicken broth which restos sometimes serve with the chicken rice but they did not package it and I did not think to ask. The chile sauce provided was super good made with fresh red chiles,ginger and I believe garlic. Probably the same sauce they were making across the street at Malay House LOL.

It all made for a really nice and fairly light (for me) dinner after our not so heavy lunch.

Is this the one in the shadow of the LIRR station?

That seems like a fair description. It’s not yet on Google Maps, and if it were I’m not sure what address it would have.