flushing meadows
It was so cold tonight I felt like it was some diversion by an evil force.
Went with Mary and Hank tonight to Spicy and Tasty, in the Flushing Chinatown (39-07 Prince St), having heard that it's the best place for real deal Sichuan food. It's pretty amazing. No white people there, which is unusual even for the hole in the wall places I usually go to in Queens. Started off with a smoked bean curd and celery appetizer, which was in a bright green sauce that tasted like it had peanut oil in it. And dan dan noodles, which are soft white noodles with minced pork on top. The sauce in the bottom of the bowl, which you have to mix around with the noodles, has a really indescribable flavor, mixed with the spicy lip-numbing sensation of the sichuan peppercorns, which is equally indescribable. Some pea shoots sauteed with garlic were very good, and a beef with spinach and sha-cha (?) sauce was only OK, but the diced spicy chicken with pickled turnip was completely smokin. Another flavor I've never had before. Very spicy and very tasty.
I should mention that before our food came, a smell wafted through the restaurant. I think it was the "Stinky Bean Curd", but who knows. All I can say is that it was a intense as durian, but smelled more like something that would come out of a body, especially a not so healthy body. Enough said. Mary nearly had to leave, but it's a good thing we stayed, because what we did eat was completely incredible.
We then went to Eddie's Sweet Shop (105-29 Metropolitan Ave, Queens) for some ice cream, to combat the spice of the Chinese. This place is like straight out of 1954, though I hear it actually opened in 1909. Vanilla fudge with butterscotch and what must be home-made whipped cream has nearly put me into sugar shock, something I can only handle about once a year. I nearly finished it too. The place also featured strange little displays in the window: mostly lots of Ty stuffed animals, but a few weirdly minimalist porcelain deer also held up the fort in the miniature department. Go there!
Went with Mary and Hank tonight to Spicy and Tasty, in the Flushing Chinatown (39-07 Prince St), having heard that it's the best place for real deal Sichuan food. It's pretty amazing. No white people there, which is unusual even for the hole in the wall places I usually go to in Queens. Started off with a smoked bean curd and celery appetizer, which was in a bright green sauce that tasted like it had peanut oil in it. And dan dan noodles, which are soft white noodles with minced pork on top. The sauce in the bottom of the bowl, which you have to mix around with the noodles, has a really indescribable flavor, mixed with the spicy lip-numbing sensation of the sichuan peppercorns, which is equally indescribable. Some pea shoots sauteed with garlic were very good, and a beef with spinach and sha-cha (?) sauce was only OK, but the diced spicy chicken with pickled turnip was completely smokin. Another flavor I've never had before. Very spicy and very tasty.
I should mention that before our food came, a smell wafted through the restaurant. I think it was the "Stinky Bean Curd", but who knows. All I can say is that it was a intense as durian, but smelled more like something that would come out of a body, especially a not so healthy body. Enough said. Mary nearly had to leave, but it's a good thing we stayed, because what we did eat was completely incredible.
We then went to Eddie's Sweet Shop (105-29 Metropolitan Ave, Queens) for some ice cream, to combat the spice of the Chinese. This place is like straight out of 1954, though I hear it actually opened in 1909. Vanilla fudge with butterscotch and what must be home-made whipped cream has nearly put me into sugar shock, something I can only handle about once a year. I nearly finished it too. The place also featured strange little displays in the window: mostly lots of Ty stuffed animals, but a few weirdly minimalist porcelain deer also held up the fort in the miniature department. Go there!
2 Comments:
they weren't deer, they were mice!
it is the infamouse mouse deer.
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