Today I needed to walk and clear out the brain a bit...and one of my favorite walks is in Flushing. I parked my car close to the Queens Botanical Gardens (Elder Ave & Main Street) then walk down Main Street towards Roosevelt Avenue. I love all the Halal grocery stores, the Patel Brothers Supermarket, Chinese coffee shops & bakeries, and the Sari shops that line up as I make my way down Main Street. As you get closer to the 7 train stop, you enter into the "China town of Queens". And the Asian supermarkets are incredible with aisles of noodles, dried seaweed, sauces, oils and bags of dried mushrooms and herbs. However, be prepared to see live creatures in the fish department...as in frogs, turtles, eels, etc. Quite disturbing for me, so I tend to avoid that section of the market.
But today I ended up eating at the Nan Xiang Dumpling House, located at: 38-12 Prince St
Flushing, NY 11354. Dumplings...fried rice cakes...noodle soups...this place has comfort food like none other. I decided to stay on the healthier spectrum and ordered the steamed vegetable dumplings and soybean tofu salad. These were the most perfect dumplings, and I also loved the edamame with the dry spiced tofu, scallions, chilis and chopped greens:
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| Soybean Tofu Salad |
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| Steamed Vegetable Dumplings |
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| Sari Shop on Main Street |
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| Chinese Supermarket on my walk down Main Street |
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| Herb/Tea Shop |
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