Starting a new thread for this, moving from here:
Some early info here:
I’m going to have a look around this evening but not sure if I’ll do dinner here or somewhere else my kid wants to go to. (He’s a big fan of Zhengxin Chicken Steak.)
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Overwhelmed by choice and not feeling particularly adventurous this evening my wife and I just split a jjajang noodle from Chopin Noodle House. I’d never had the Chinese version before and while not as flavorful as the Korean-Chinese version it was enjoyable and the hand-pulled noodles were fantastic.
Two really nice tea houses in there, too, including one that sells Sey coffee. (Herb Nook Lab.)
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During my brief walkthrough last month, I had a good chat with the fellow who runs Herb Nook Lab. You’re right, that’s a really nice option for a food court.
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It was very popular, even on an icy Monday evening. Tea drinks looked good, too. Sadly, I just can’t do caffeine that late in the day.
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The “official” name for the court is “Eat Up”. I happened to have a few spare minutes today, so I hopped off the LIRR at Flushing, hopped on over there, then hopped back on a slightly later train (only to be besieged by howling Mets fans at the next stop - must a good deed go so punished?).
Here’s my first batch of pictures:
Stall1:
Stall 2:
Stall 3:
Stall 5 (see here for a possible explanation of the missing stall #4):
Stall 6:
Stall 7:
Stall 8:
Stall 9:
These are all the stalls on the right as you descend your golden elevator (you enter Ranch 99, then descend an elevator). More on the other stalls shortly. I am on Amtrak where the Internet connection is too slow to do serious work, but also slow enough that frivolities such as uploading pictures from my phone are exceedingly tedious.
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Ok, I not only took bad pics I ate a bit:
From stall 8, the fried skewer place:
From L to R, lamb, beef (I noticed pork belly too late) and cilantro in wontonish wrappers. Taking bites of the cilantro in between bites of meat (and sometimes managing both in one mouthful) was very agreeable. I recommend the experience.
From stall 5, the pork-feet-rice place:
Trotters on rice. The feet were nicely gelatinous in places, but mostly bone. They had asked me if I wanted bone or no-bone. I chose bone, of course (I’m no bonehead) but on reflection I have to wonder where they get the meat for the no-bone folk. Some of the other included elements, however did their best to make up for the missing meat: tofu, pickled vegetables, etc. I’d eat this again, but wouldn’t risk my life to.
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Oh, and the bathrooms are very clean, as is the entire food court.
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Continuing my sketchy survey of the stalls, if you make a right U-turn at the bottom of the down escalators, you see a play area:
I can see some of you there.
Along the back wall are the bathrooms, then continuing to rotate clockwise you start with several stalls in different stages of not-open:
Then stall 19:
Stall 20:
Stall 21 (the menu was interesting)
Stall 22:
Stall 23 was missing. (Is there a reason? There’s a #23 at the New York Food Court.)
Stall 24:
Stalls 25 & 26:
Stall 27 and a possible 28:
Stall 29:
As the Eater article linked to upthread says, there’s a lot of culinary overlap with other food courts in the area. If anybody can point to something unique to this court that would be great.
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