Thanks. This looks fun!
I hear that the Shangdon? spot past joe’s srr is supposed to be great. Cold dishes stuffed in a bun.
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So jealous I have to miss this again, but sounds awesome! If only wfh meant I could take calls on mute and join…
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Our third bailed. Something about work. I recall knowing about work personally but I do not recommend it.
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Grrr, me too! Looks like terrific fun!
Clip of the day:
Thanks to Dave for taking the reins on this. Really good food.
Preserved egg sausage. Wonderful. Hard boiled egg, bits of preserved egg.
Cold Roasted Noodles. Similar to jian bing but with a square of noodle filled with stuff. Our stuff was braised pork, green onions, hoisin, egg. Amazing!
This was one of the best bites of the day. Rice cake with seafood. Crispy outside, ready soft inside and a light seafood flavor.
Liangpi from liangpi Wang in the New York food mall. The best version of this I have ever had! Toothy noodles, fabulous wheat gluten, cukes and bean sprouts in aight and sprightly dressing. The rice cake came from next door.
This was allegedly baby squid. While there was discussion as to what this was, it clearly was not squid.
Uyghur chopped noodles which were unexpectedly (to me at least) good. I guess I have not had really good Uyghur cooking before.
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Want. Want now.
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Me too. And I’m stuffed.
Good to meet you! I’m glad we got to try as much as we did. For a return visit later this week, consider Maxi’s Noodle, which would have been awkward for six but is perfect when you’re willing to sit at an outdoor two-top:
https://www.eatingintranslation.com/2021/01/maxis-noodle.html
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We have not had Winton mein yet. This looks super! We are definitely going back to new York Food Court. Today was our first time and there is so much that looked good.
Thanks again.
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For those of us who still have to work for a living and even go to that strange place once known as the office, it would be great to see a food crawl on the weekend or at least “after” work. Looks like it was a feast for the eyes and mouth.
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That was fun - and a bit tiring! Nice to meet some new folks from elsewhere, too.
I realize that I did NOT in fact, eat ANY XLB, never mind my proposal of compare-and-contrast, lol. I should have abstained on Tianjin and saved some room.
I did see and stop by the takeout location of Dim Sum Garden before the subway (got an order of shumai, which were about all I could manage for dinner after everything we consumed on the crawl).
Also got a cup of the strong coffee I was craving (and the last sponge cake – for another day) from the little bakery across from New World on Main. The lady was very nice - when I ordered my coffee I said I was sad they had run out of sponge cake, so she ran out to check all the shelves, and found me one last one that had been misplaced with the cream cakes.
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Thanks again to @DaveCook for his guidance (and I hope he posts pics too)!
This is where I think we ended up eating (so I can find them again, and for those who couldn’t make it):
New World Mall:
Tarim Uyghur Food - diced fried noodles
Laoma Malatang - dry pot
New York Food Court:
Liang Pi Wang - spicy cold skin noodles
Distinctive Foods - seafood rice cakes
Huang Jin Jiao - beef stomach (was supposed to be baby squid) & greens
Walking around:
White Bear - dumplings with hot sauce
Followsoshi - roasted cold noodles with pork and mushroom
Tianjin - fried dumplings, chive and egg pancake, bread
Next to Tianjin - century egg sausage
ETA from Dave:
New World Mall: Molixian - mango snowy ice
ETA:
My favorites were the diced noodles and seafood rice cakes.
The roasted cold noodles were interesting as an twist on jian bing, and the spicy cold skin noodles were very flavorful.
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Finally, back at the New World Mall, various beverages and, from Molixian (stall 26) an oversized communal mango snowy ice. Photos to come, but I’m still catching up from the weekend.
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@BKeats – the day / time was based on who responded to @SteveR. Had you suggested shifting the crawl to the weekend when he posted the thread, it could probably have still worked (the group might have changed).
The other things planned so far have been / will be dinners – again, based on when people who said they’d like to join could make it.
I’ll also say that if there’s something you’d like to propose yourself, there’s plenty of interest in eating together as a group going forward!
Thanks for reporting back, and Dean, thanks for the pics!
Uyghur food is great! The best I’ve had so far has been at the other end of the city at Cafe Kashkar. That’s a good place to bring a group under normal circumstances. I have no idea whether they have outdoor dining now, though; I haven’t been there since before the pandemic.
Yum! I think timing was chosen because thinking was weekend would have been too crowded? But maybe I am just filling in the blanks. Anyway, I’m with @BKeats, weekend or even a late afternoon/evening when it might be possible to leave/rearrange work would be great another time! I’ll try not to be shy about suggesting something like that at some point! In any case, thanks for sharing all your notes. The vicarious experience was wonderful.
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Thank you everybody for a wonderful afternoon! I needed a day in the city and that was perfect! I hope to see everybody again soon.
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sorry to have missed it, looks wonderful and preferable to having to pick up our dog from the sitter in westchester! i’m going to have to drag my family there soon…
ps y’all were brave to consume that blue sausage…
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i can identify with your search for sponge cake, flushing bakery is always my last stop in flushing and it’s been bitter disappointment to find them sold out of pastéis de nata a couple of times.
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