Id be game for this one
we’re pretty booked up rn but could plan something the week after jan 1.
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I am more or less free after Jan 6
I’m up for it too, but will be back a bit later in the month.
If you folks go before that, I’d be up for a repeat visit if it’s good (or perhaps another visit to Laghman express or elsewhere if not).
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As @divinebaboon suggested above and @DaveCook noted the NYFC has undergone changes. I’d posted above a picture of the replacement for Mr. Duck (Stall #2), and there are at least two others that I found yesterday.
Sadly, stall #13, the snail noodle joint, has been replaced by a pig joint:
but it does appear to have an interesting array of pig parts (I didn’t try any):
Next door, stall #14 is also new:
I had their #8 option, fish with rice noodles, nicely populated with tofu, pickled cabbage and the like, and flecked with the occasional long red pepper slice.
I was there between 5 and 6:30 pm and it was very quiet. Several stalls appeared to have no customers over this period. On the way back to the 7 I popped in at the New World Mall just to have a look and a sniff and it was packed.
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Yes, the New World Mall Food Court gets packed pretty early and easily; the other food courts get the excess.
As for snail noodles, one vendor at the new Eat Up! Food Court serves these. I think that’s true at the New World Mall, too.
Yes, Eat Up does have snail noodles, as does New World if my sniffing was accurate. I wasn’t there long yesterday, just a quick walk around, but I did catch the distinctive aroma without trying to track down the source.
The Landmark Quest Mall across Roosevelt from NWM also had snail noodles, but I gather that mall is closed right now.
Cousin Snail Noodles (the joint you’ve mentioned) had a tiny space inside the Landmark Quest Mall. They upgraded to a stall (#13) at the New York Food Court but apparently couldn’t make a go of it.
Landmark is being renovated and rebranded as the Ever Prosper Food Court. Three weeks ago the interior — what I could see of it through a hole in the hoarding — was largely framed out.
This is my worry about the other stalls in NYFC as well. The general quality of the food there based on sporadic but multiple visits over the last year is excellent, but yesterday there was this subdued atmosphere of defeat that permeated the court. At two places the FOH person was slumped over on the desk taking a quick nap. At New World, when I paused briefly to examine a display case, the corresponding person, already dealing with three people on line, observed me, snapped to attention and called out something that sounded like “you want?” I was looking at a divided tray of tripe and other innards, and I wanted very much, but I had to pass.
Not to be all gloom and doom, Stall #6 – Fat Cat, is still dishing out superb flat breads (I had the black pepper beef and spicy pork yesterday), but they have added reheating instructions on their counter. And at the opposite end of the numerical sequence but essentially behind you as you stand at Fat Cat, the crab roe place, Stall #26, abides.
You might have been there before the dinner rush. It’s usually packed after 6:30/7.
New World is probably full earlier / most of the day because it’s right at the 7 train exit and the nexus for most buses.
