are those pickles underneath? Looks delish.
Chopped preserved greens of some sort, as I recall.
Thanks.
Throwing this in here, entirely inappropriate to the elephant-headed god Ganesh â apparently vegetarian, by myth â whereâs the best (or any) âbig tray chickenâ (Da Pan Ji) to be found in those parts? (@DaveCook alert)
Try He Nan Hui Mian (河ĺçŠé˘; aka He Nan Flavor, aka He Nan Feng Wei), 13631 41st Ave., downstairs (shown in 2011). At one time if not now, this restaurant had a business connection to Spicy Village, on the outskirts of Manhattanâs Chinatown.
New bite for me in Flushing: giant âdumplingsâ which were really stuffed pancakes.
The first place had maybe 8-10 varieties, plus freshly-fried crullers and âdumpling ballsâ of either potato or chive. Interestingly, it wasnât open the other day, or maybe it only opens in the evening.
I picked spicy beef, which wasnât spicy but was very flavorful and âjuicyâ . Well-stuffed in terms of sufficient filling per bite.
Later, walking back, these were visible everywhere â clearly an easy after-work snack / dinner option. I picked up another to compare from elsewhere (next to the blue sausage place for those who remember that), this time pork & cabbage (there were only 2 options at this stall, beef & cabbage was the other).
I reheated this at home, and it was a completely different bite than the first â twice the size, much doughier, but also with twice the filling. Would have been harder to eat on the go (though Iâm sure its doable haha). The filling was also flavorfiul, but I did use some soy sauce and chilli oil to remedy the doughy-ness.
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Thanks.
Those look fantastic. I donât recall seeing them in Manhattan Chinatown. I must expand my horizons soon LOL
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Damn, just found this thread and my mouth is watering. These walkabouts looks good enough to tolerate my Flushing-based ex-MIL (think Fran Fine) again for.
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We wonât tell her if you just eat and donât visitâŚ
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If youâre in town on 4/30, there will likely be some dapanji on the table
Thanks. Not in town, unfortunately. Sorry to miss it.
âWant toâ or âhave no trips to NYC planned before Juneâ?
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@Saregama and I went to maxiâs noodle today where I was looking forward to comparing their wonton soup to Sifu, noodle village and the ten or so renditions I had in Hong Kong.
As is my wont, I didnât look at the menu, hoping saregama would do all the ordering but she was annoyingly considerate and kept pointing to different sides of the menu asking if we should have dumplings or wantons and then there was some sort of noodle choice. Part of me didnât want to think about the choice because Iâd always prefer to try something someone else likes as opposed to staying in my comfort zone but there was also something nagging about that choice between wantons and dumplings.
After saregema ordered dumplings in broth, I took a real look at the menu and figured it out: I never knew there was a difference between wantons and dumplings! I mean, sure, we alternate between dumplings and flatter wantons at our favorite uws Szechuan restaurant, but I figured the naming convention was just a convenience for the restaurant.
Anyhow, our dumpling soup arrived and wow, the dumplings were big! And delicious! An Americanized, supersized version of a dumpling, made with top quality ingredients in a flavorful broth.
When we were done, saregama asked me how it compared to sifu. After trying so many renditions, Iâve come to believe thereâs a zen art to making great wonton soup: simple ingredients working together to create a perfect balance of flavor and texture. While delicious, maxiâs huge dumplings didnât offer that perfect composition Iâve come to look for in great wonton soup.
But when I got home it hit me, we didnât have wonton soup 
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Realized belatedly that we should have gotten a mix of the two. I donât like fish balls, but @Dean and @KayZ enjoyed them on their visit.
Agree the dumplings are jumbo, but very flavorful. (The frozen ones turn out as good at home, whether in broth or in a bowl with chilli oil & sauces.) Their broth was very seafood forward.
And the incredibly nice staff bears special mention.
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More eats: Some revisits, some new, all generally good eats.
(We saved the new Uyghur place for a return trip with a larger group.)
(Jumbo!) Wonton soup
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Fried skewers â lamb, squid, ribs,
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Stuffed flaky pancake with 3 veg and meat.
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Uyghur samsa (ordered beef but tasted like lamb so I dunno)
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Fuzhou style Pork and chive dumplings
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Hey those fuzhou dumplings looks like wontons
Whoa! Youâre right
I loved the skewers, and the last round of dumplings / wontons was tasty & quite delicate.
I messed up the choice of stuffed pancake â Iâm not a huge fan of chinese leeks (slimy) or chives, and the one we got was full of them. The black fungus / mushroom & meat one would probably have been more up my alley.
Oh, I forgot the pic I took specially for @small_h â a snail specialist in one of the little food courts!
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