Fu Run (賦潤東北美食)
40-09 Prince St
Flushing, NY 11354
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My favorite kind of Chinese food is the kind heavy on spices and flavor. Fu Run serves just that, specializing in Northeastern Chinese food. Their dishes are heavy on spices like cumin, pepper flakes, and cilantro but more tone down in heat compared to Sichuan cuisine.
One of the more spacious restaurants in the area. It almost takes up half the block.
Their menus are wrapped with plastic in a book. Most likely to keep the pages from getting dirty by oily fingers and sauce splashes. Most of the popular dishes are shown with photos.
Muslim Lamb Chop
Their Muslim Lamb Chop ($21.95) is their most popular dish. One look at this rack of lamb and you know that your taste buds are in for a treat. It is drenched with cumin seeds, chili powder, and salt. The meat is super moist and falls off the bone. This easily ranks on one of the best lamb dishes I ever ate. You heard of garlic-breath before, now get ready for cumin-breath.
Country Style Green Bean Sheet Jelly
The Country Style Green Bean Sheet Jelly ($8.95) is a cold dish perfect for warmer weather. Not only its tasty, its fun to eat. Each strand of bean noodle is very slippery and just shoots into your mouth once you slurp it. But its that sauce that brings everything together. Mix it well though because its loaded with minced garlic and cilantro.
Squirrel Fish
The Squirrel Fish dish ($21.95) takes its name from the type of cut made on the fish. Its de-boned and butterflied to resembled a flying squirrel. It is served with a pool of ketchup/vinegar based sauce. Personally, the sauce was too sour to my liking. Also the meat developed a mushy texture which I didn’t like.
Fu Run showcases one of the less known Chinese cuisines in Flushing but it has a loyal following and one of the more popular restaurants to locals. The food is unique and consists of some you won’t see at other restaurants. A meal here is definitely hands-on with a lot of gripping, mixing, and dipping but all that adds to the fun. The exercise will get you hungrier anyways.
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