http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...nted=2&_r=1&em

Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train
Main St. terminal.

Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where the
owners strive to make a super quality product.

George wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...nted=2&_r=1&em
>
>
> Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
> places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train
> Main St. terminal.
>
> Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
> article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where the
> owners strive to make a super quality product.

Also an interactive map that follows the article:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...TERACTIVE.html

"George" > wrote in message
...
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...nted=2&_r=1&em
>
> Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
> places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train Main
> St. terminal.
>
> Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
> article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where the
> owners strive to make a super quality product.

NYC Flushing for Chinese - In LA it's Monterey Park & Alhambra.

For Dim Sum = NBC Seafood

http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot....-monterey.html

Where else?

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Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)

On Aug 1, 6:56*am, "Dimitri" > wrote:
>
> NYC Flushing for Chinese - In LA it's Monterey Park & Alhambra.
>
> For Dim Sum = NBC Seafood
>
> http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot....food-restauran...
>
> Where else?
>
The Chinese expansion has continued even into Rosemead. If you're
down here and in a dim sum mood, check out The Kitchen, a branch of
the well-known place somewhere up in the Bay Area (Larkspur, maybe?).
It's small and you order from a list rather than waiting for carts,
but every item is well-prepared. They have something called "roast
pork belly Macao style" that is absolutely not to be missed.

Big places like Ocean Star, Harbor Village, and 888 still thrive, too,
but the Kitchen is a real find (and closer to us). -aem

On Aug 1, 6:43 am, George > wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...l?pagewanted=2...
>
> Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
> places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train
> Main St. terminal.
>
> Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
> article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where the
> owners strive to make a super quality product.

Excellent. As in an earlier article I cited a little while ago, when
the Chinese immigrant population reaches sufficient mass you get a
qualitative shift in the foods offered. They begin offering the food
the immigrants want rather than what the Americans expect, and
everything changes for the better. This seems to have happened in
Flushing and probably bypassed the Chinatown in NYC, much as the waves
of influxes to the San Gabriel Valley bypassed the downtown L.A.
Chinatown. We have had a blast for the last 10-15 years exploring the
widely varying regions of Chinese food. The only place where the food
surprised us when we traveled around China was Xian, where we found
some Muslim dishes. They're now available here, too. Having grown up
with Cantonese style it's been eye-opening, tongue-tingling fun. -
aem

"aem" > wrote in message
...
On Aug 1, 6:56 am, "Dimitri" > wrote:
>
> NYC Flushing for Chinese - In LA it's Monterey Park & Alhambra.
>
> For Dim Sum = NBC Seafood
>
> http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot....food-restauran...
>
> Where else?
>
The Chinese expansion has continued even into Rosemead. If you're
down here and in a dim sum mood, check out The Kitchen, a branch of
the well-known place somewhere up in the Bay Area (Larkspur, maybe?).
It's small and you order from a list rather than waiting for carts,
but every item is well-prepared. They have something called "roast
pork belly Macao style" that is absolutely not to be missed.

Big places like Ocean Star, Harbor Village, and 888 still thrive, too,
but the Kitchen is a real find (and closer to us). -aem

Have you been to any of the Japanese Curry House Restaurants?
http://www.house-foods.com/curry_house.html

Very very good.


--
Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)

Dimitri wrote:
>
> "George" > wrote in message
> ...
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...nted=2&_r=1&em
>>
>>
>> Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
>> places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train
>> Main St. terminal.
>>
>> Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
>> article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where
>> the owners strive to make a super quality product.
>
> NYC Flushing for Chinese - In LA it's Monterey Park & Alhambra.
>
>

NYC Flushing is Chinatown II. Chinatown I is in Manhattan on the lower
east side. And there is now a smaller Chinatown III in Brooklyn.


For Dim Sum = NBC Seafood
>
> http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot....-monterey.html
>
>
> Where else?
>

aem wrote:
> On Aug 1, 6:43 am, George > wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/di...l?pagewanted=2...
>>
>> Flushing has some great quality/neighborhood/mom & pop Chinese food
>> places. Easy access since most are within a few blocks of the 7 train
>> Main St. terminal.
>>
>> Xiao La Tiao is a great Sichuan place I like that is mentioned in the
>> article. Also lots of great mom & pop shops in the Golden Mall where the
>> owners strive to make a super quality product.
>
> Excellent. As in an earlier article I cited a little while ago, when
> the Chinese immigrant population reaches sufficient mass you get a
> qualitative shift in the foods offered. They begin offering the food
> the immigrants want rather than what the Americans expect, and
> everything changes for the better. This seems to have happened in
> Flushing and probably bypassed the Chinatown in NYC, much as the waves
> of influxes to the San Gabriel Valley bypassed the downtown L.A.
> Chinatown. We have had a blast for the last 10-15 years exploring the
> widely varying regions of Chinese food. The only place where the food
> surprised us when we traveled around China was Xian, where we found
> some Muslim dishes. They're now available here, too. Having grown up
> with Cantonese style it's been eye-opening, tongue-tingling fun. -
> aem

The other thing in play is that rents are now more expensive in
Manhattan so a couple places moved to Flushing from there and the new
places seem to appear in Flushing and recently in Brooklyn.

Its a definite treat being able to get good quality and varied Chinese
food so easily.

On Aug 1, 12:18*pm, "Dimitri" > wrote:
>
> Have you been to any of the Japanese Curry House Restaurants?http://www.house-foods.com/curry_house.html
>
> Very very good.
>
I used to work just a couple of blocks from the first one in Little
Tokyo, that they now call the original. We used to have lunch there
at least once a month. Excellent then, but it was years ago, and I
haven't been to any of the other locations. Maybe I'll go again now
that you've reminded me about it. -aem

Dimitri wrote:
>
> "aem" > wrote in message
> ...
> On Aug 1, 6:56 am, "Dimitri" > wrote:
>>
>> NYC Flushing for Chinese - In LA it's Monterey Park & Alhambra.
>>
>> For Dim Sum = NBC Seafood
>>
>> http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot....food-restauran...
>>
>> Where else?
>>
> The Chinese expansion has continued even into Rosemead. If you're
> down here and in a dim sum mood, check out The Kitchen, a branch of
> the well-known place somewhere up in the Bay Area (Larkspur, maybe?).
> It's small and you order from a list rather than waiting for carts,
> but every item is well-prepared. They have something called "roast
> pork belly Macao style" that is absolutely not to be missed.
>
> Big places like Ocean Star, Harbor Village, and 888 still thrive, too,
> but the Kitchen is a real find (and closer to us). -aem
>
> Have you been to any of the Japanese Curry House Restaurants?
> http://www.house-foods.com/curry_house.html
>
> Very very good.
>
>
Not aem but I always used to visit the curry place under the overhead
railroad line about two blocks from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.

There was a similar place called Go! Go! Curry that opened in Manhattan
but I didn't think it was anywhere near the quality of the mom & pop
place in Tokyo.

http://www.gogocurryusa.com/

"George" > wrote in message
...

<Chinese snipped>


>>
>> Have you been to any of the Japanese Curry House Restaurants?
>> http://www.house-foods.com/curry_house.html
>>
>> Very very good.
>>
>>
> Not aem but I always used to visit the curry place under the overhead
> railroad line about two blocks from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo.
>
> There was a similar place called Go! Go! Curry that opened in Manhattan
> but I didn't think it was anywhere near the quality of the mom & pop place
> in Tokyo.
>
> http://www.gogocurryusa.com/

Also near the Imperial was a place - Go-Mi-Hachen <sp>.

58 varieties of appetizers on a skewer dipped in batter and deep fried. Same
skewer for everyone - the choice was yes or no. Whenever you walked in that
is were you started. Nibble and drink and nibble and drink and nibble and
drink until you couldn't walk any more.

Tokyo has a lot of sensational little joints - Gardena CA as well for
Japanese food.




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Old Scoundrel

(AKA Dimitri)