Hot Point Pot

Hot Point Pot
136-72 Roosevelt Ave
Flushing, NY 11354
$$$

When you crave hot pot, you have to satisfy that crave. It doesn’t matter if its winter or the first week of June. Who said it needs to be cold to hot pot when there is air conditioning. Hot Point Pot is a fairly new addition to the numerous “huo guo” restaurants in Flushing. At $24.99 a person, it’s one of the cheapest AYCE deals in the whole city. In my experience, I’ve only seen cheaper at the 99 Favor Tastes in Manhattan Chinatown and Brooklyn.

If you have a bottom-less stomach, the buffet option is the better deal since the a la carte option is $3.75/person for soup and then dishes ranging from 4.99 to 6.99.

The interior is clean, Japanesy and comfortable in which most tables can seat 4 people. There are tables in the back that can accommodate larger parties.

The all you can eat selection is limited. They only have one page of items to select from. The number you write down doesn’t matter so just put a check next to each food and wait for the next round. Bet you can’t make it to the third column anyways.

You have your basic meats like fatty beef and lamb to common vegetables like lettuce and napa cabbage. Even weaker is their seafood selection where shrimp and fish fillets are the only items worth ordering.

There are 4 main options for soup (Original, Spicy, Half & Half, and Vegetable). Hot pot is best with the Yin Yang option because why pick one soup when you can have two. I liked the milkiness with a hint of herbal flavor from the original broth and the spicy one is always a must have for those sadist eaters like myself.

Since we went with AYCE hot pot, you can get an idea of most of the dishes we ordered below:

Fatty beef is an essential part of a hot pot diet. Not included in my pictures is the pork belly which is a MUST ORDER!!!!

Chicken breast slices are also offered but why waste stomach space on rough chicken white meat.

What goes with beef? Another part of the cow of course. Pay attention as these cook fast and shrivel up in seconds.

Something I don’t regret ordering is the pork kidney. I loved the crunchy chewy texture when it’s cooked.

For the adventurous eaters, there is pork blood. It’s sort of like eating liver so it didn’t suit my taste. I was hoping for the blood jelly.

Fish filet is a must order. Flaky, smooth and delicious.

Another common dish are the “fish” items such as the fishballs and fish tofu. Some are cut up for faster cooking.

Unlisted on their menu are clams. Our waiter told us it was offered that day so we were lucky.

There is nothing like tofu to cleanse the palette. They have the sponge or silky soft varieties. Also you can keep eating these and not feel full.

Glass noodles for some slippery goodness and absorbing the soup.

Many reviews say that the fried tofu skin is one of the best items on the menu. It’s crispy, melts in the mouth, and the only item that you can eat without cooking. However don’t expect much flavor.

I love mushrooms of all varieties. They offer oyster, enoki, shitake, and wood ear.

There’s something about hot pot quail eggs that defy the laws of science for some reason. No matter how long you cook it, the yoke stays creamy. That gets a like from me.

Hot Point Pot is one of the more affordable hot pot options in Flushing. (Also there is a 10% discount on the Yelp app). The quality is comparable to Little Sheep and way better than the shadier places like Shanghai Tide. While the selection is small (no crabs =[ ), there is only so much you can eat anyways. This will be my go to buffet “da been lo” restaurant in Flushing because I save money even while I am stuffed to the point of puking. 

Ming Xing BBQ (正宗東北風味) (Recommended)

Ming Xing BBQ (正宗東北風味)
35-14 Farrington St
Flushing, NY 11354
$
Menu (Prices Outdated)

If you are a fan of Chinese BBQ cart skewers, then you will love this restaurant. Ming Xing BBQ serves every street food lover’s favorite BBQ skewers in a sit-down setting. So instead of standing on the sidewalk, you comfortably grill your meat in private booths.

 

Don’t worry about your clothes smelling like smoke and meat because the ventilation is very effective. In addition, I was pleasantly surprised how clean the restaurant was.

10 Beef Skewers (14.99) and 10 Chicken Skewers (14.99)

The skewers here are pretty much the same price as street carts but you have to order in sets of 5 or 10. For example, 10 beef/lamb/chicken skewers will be $14.99. The meat is lightly marinated so you can adjust your own flavors. Also there are other options like gizzard, squid, and even penis! The menu is multi-lingual it lists each item in Chinese, Korean, and English.

You can tell how legit the place is because they use wood charcoal on top of the charcoal briquettes. This adds a unique smokey flavor that you can’t get from just grilling on regular coal. The fire intensity is controlled by the knobs on the side of the grill. Steel sticks also allow the meat to be cooked more evenly.

Each diner will receive a plate of premade seasoning. It’s a mixture of chili powder, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, and sesame seeds. Add when the meat is just about done.

There’s a two-tier rack on top of the grill. You cook your meat on the bottom level while the top level uses indirect heat to keep the skewers warm.

This place has Korean and North-east China characteristics as they serve side-dishes along with your meal. Some examples of their “banchan” are salted dried fish, beansprouts, spicy cucumbers, peanuts, and pickled daikon.

Dumplings 水餃

If you need something more to fill your stomach, they have other food options like dumplings 水餃 ($10.00), soups, and various cooked meat, seafood, and vegetable dishes.

Ming Xing BBQ is one of the few do it yourself BBQ skewer restaurants trending around Flushing. These are the perfect places to relax with friends and have a drink. The skewers here are as authentic as any BBQ cart and the food taste so much better knowing that you put your own labor into it.

Gui Lin Mi Fen (桂林米粉) (Recommended)

Gui Lin Mi Fen (桂林米粉)
135-25 40th Rd
Flushing, NY 11354
$
Menu

Gui Lin Mi Fen is one of the new specialty restaurants to join the fray in Flushing. The menu here is simple and focuses on one thing: mi fen (rice noodles). Guilin is a city in the southeast Chinese province of Guangxi. In this region, one of their most popular snacks and everyday food staple is their mi fen (米粉) or rice noodles. It’s quite common to top these noodles with an assortment of ingredients that include soybean, picked vegetables, scallions, and thin slices of meat.

The only thinking you have to do is deciding on what meat you want to pair with your noodles. There are 9 choices to pair with the noodle that includes vegetarian, smoked fish, chicken, braised brisket, and more.

Authentic Guilin Mi Fen 正宗桂林米粉

Being that it’s my first time here, I went with the first item on the menu: “Authentic Guilin Mi Fen 正宗桂林米粉” ($7.25) that had a few brisket slices and some roast pig.

The noodles are dressed with a light sauce with a hint of sichuan peppercorn. Each strand is very smooth and slippery and perfect for slurping. The sauce coupled with the toppings and braised slices of brisket has just enough flavor and if you want to turn it into a noodle soup, just pour in the pork broth.

For spicy food lovers, they have the Sour & Spicy Lao You Fen 酸辣老友粉 ($7.25) topped with spicy bamboo shoots and wood ear mushrooms. A lot of the heat comes from the chili oil, however its more more spicy than sour.

Each noodle is accompanied by a pork bone soup. The soup is actually one of the best parts of the meal and tastes very natural and clean.

One of their main appetizers (and meat option for the noodles) is the Shanghai Chicken 三黃雞. It taste just like a poached chicken (also think Hainan Chicken) with little meat. Portion sizes comes in quarter ($5.95), half ($11.95), and whole ($21.95).

The restaurant is quite new, barely a few months old. However it’s rare to eat something in Flushing that puts quality over quantity. The soup and noodles are top notch and the staff even teaches you how to bring out the best from the meal. Our waiter suggested that we eat the noodles dry first and then add the soup half way. I see big things in this small noodle shop and look forward to try out the other noodle assortments.

Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao (功夫小籠包)

Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao (功夫小籠包)
59-16 Main St
Flushing, NY 11355
$$
Menu

Apparently the new trend in naming Chinese restaurants is slapping the word Kung Fu in the name. Xiao Long Bao, or soup dumplings, or steamed porked buns, or literally: little basket buns (they really need to decide on an universal name) is a staple of Shanghainese cuisine. They are thin-skinned dumplings filled with pork meat and soup. Soup dumplings require a lot of attention to detail. Kung Fu might or might not be used in the kitchen but skill is vital to perfect the consistency of the dough and right portion of soup.

I like the huge variety of northern Chinese and Shanghainese appetizers offered. Their menu is definitely larger than other xiao long bao restaurant’s.

Kung Fu Steamed Pork Buns 功夫小籠包

 The Kung Fu Steamed Pork Buns 功夫小籠包 ($5.95/6) has a flavorful soup but I didn’t like how sticky the dough was. The dumpling hung on to my chopsticks when I raised my pair up. Also there is always a crab option ($6.95/6) but I felt that those were lacking in crab meat and crab flavor. I think it needed some crab tomalley to provide that extra seafood flavor.

Kung Fu Cold Dish Combo

Kung Fu Cold Dish Combo ($16.95/4) – Good for when you want to try multiple appetizers but don’t want to commit to full size dishes. Each portion is smaller than the regular offering. In this meal, we order the following 4:

Wine Pork Knuckles 清醉豬蹄

Chinese rice wine is a perfect marinate for boney meats that you can gnaw on. Each bite releases small bursts of aromatic, sweet, savory wine juices while you strip the tendons and meat off the bones. The Wine Pork Knuckles 清醉豬蹄 ($6.95) is an excellent palette for this sauce and there is a better ratio of meat to bone compared to other meats.

Chicken Feet in Wine Sauce 清醉鳳爪

The Chicken Feet in Wine Sauce 清醉鳳爪 ($6.95) taste the same as the pork knuckles except with more skin, tendons, and bones. Chicken is typically the best pairing with the Chinese wine but in this case, the pork was a better.

Black Fungus w. Pickled Pepper 木耳泡椒

The Black Fungus w. Pickled Pepper 木耳泡椒 ($5.95) is dressed with a mildly spicy, tangy sauce. If you like slippery and crunchy textures, this is for you. I liked it.

Beef Tripe in Hot Pepper Sauce 夫妻肺片

The Beef Tripe in Hot Pepper Sauce 夫妻肺片 ($7.25) is a classic appetizer found on any Shanghai or spicy Chinese food restaurant menu. The slices of beef tripe and tongue soak up the smokey chili oil nicely and should be ordered as a full dish because this will be the first to be eaten up.

Chocolate Steamed Buns 巧克力小籠包

Nutella and banana filling

The special xiao long bao unique to Kung Fu XLB is the Chocolate Steamed Buns 巧克力小籠包 (5.50/4). These dessert XLB’s have more of a hazelnut/nutella flavor than chocolate. Also each is filled with a warm banana slice that compliments the nutella perfectly. However, each bite size “bun” is over $1 which means you are paying for the gimmick.

Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao’s wide variety of appetizers and exceptional service sets them apart from the other soup dumpling restaurants. While their xiao long baos don’t measure up to those of other places, they bring unique ideas like a dessert version to make up for it. This is expected when in Flushing there are so many other xiao long bao places to choose from.

Crazy Crab

Crazy Crab (888海鮮屋)
40-42 College Point Blvd
Flushing, NY 11354
$$$

When you think of seafood boils, you think Southern United States, New Orleans, Cajun. But most people don’t know that down south in another region half way across the world there is a another take on seafood boils. Crazy Crab puts an Asian twist into their shrimp, crawfish, crab, lobster, and anything with a shell stews. In addition to the cajun spices, there is the inclusion of lemon grass, chili, and lime.

Although they take pride in their seafood boils, Crazy Crab is one of the few restaurants in the area and city to serve Burmese and Yunnan food. Burma borders south west China, more specifically the province of Yunnan, and also Thailand therefore their cuisine is heavily influence by both regions.

Here is the menu for the different seafood boils. You have the “a la carte” option where you pick a specific seafood by the pound or the three combo options with set prices
A) 1lb Shrimp + 1lb Crawfish
B) Dungeness Crab + .5lb Crawfish
C) Lobster + .5lb Crab + .5lb Crawfish

Each diner is supplied with gloves and a wet wipe for the impending saucy mess on their hands. Also the waitress personally puts a bib on you. How about that service!

The restaurant is well lit with a diner feel to it. The Spanish and oldies music will make you think you are eating in the middle of Corona rather than a Burmese restaurant.

Combo B. This was supposed to have dungeness crab and Crawfish but they substituted those for snow crab and shrimp. (Might I add those cost less for the restaurant to serve). Be aware…

Combo C. This mix contained one lobster, some flower crabs, and crawfish. The crab meat was mushy which means either it was overcooked or not fresh.

You have 3 options of sauces to mix into the seafood (cajun, lemon pepper, and garlic butter). The 3 sauces tasted pretty much the same. Cajun didn’t taste like cajun, garlic butter didn’t taste like garlic butter, you get the idea. Instead the sauces tasted tangy and herby with notes of lemongrass and onions, almost like a combination of all the sauces.

This tray contains one pound of shrimp ($14.95/lb) which is just enough for one person. There was at least 15 shrimps. Shrimps is also the best bang for the buck because it has the best meat to shell ratio.

We did not sample much of the regular dishes but the one we did was the best of the night. The Fried Yunnan Yellow Tofu ($10.99) had a super thin crispy skin and inside a soft silky piping hot yellow tofu made from yellow split peas. The light coating had flavors of garlic as well. What put together this dish perfectly was the tangy, spicy chili fish sauce.

In my opinion the seafood boils are overpriced but the tofu gave me high hopes that the rest of their menu will be delicious. Also regular dishes are not that expensive. I might not come here again for seafood but I see many future trips just to try the Burmese and Yunnan cuisine.

Flushing Mall Food Court – Closed

Flushing Mall Food Court
133-31 39th Ave
Flushing, NY 11354
$

Flushing Mall Food Court is a legend in the Flushing food scene. It paved the way for Asian food courts all over the city and its one of the first, if not the first, to assemble multiple types of Asian fast food in one place. I remember eating here way back in my high school days when it was the only Flushing loitering spot with food, before the days of Queens Crossing and New World Mall food court. Unfortunately, this food court just never got popular with the masses. Maybe it was during a time when Western palates weren’t accustomed to exotic Asian street food. Maybe it was because its location is far from the train station and it was too much effort making the walk down 39th Ave. Regardless, this food court is still here and whipping out food better than most places in Flushing.

Like most days, the outside of the food court is empty. Occasionally there are small-scaled shows and corporate rallies that liven things up a bit.

What was once a melting pot of Chinese, Korean, Japanese cuisine has dwindled down to only a handful of shops. Now the vendors primarily serve Taiwanese food

At Diverse Dim Sum 不一樣點心, you can get a variety of Chinese breakfast items such as buns, fried dough, dumplings, and soy products.

Fresh Juice Bar 水霸 is the only non-savory shop in the mall. Here you could get refreshments like teas, smoothies, fruit juices, and bubble tea. I see they still use the Taiwanese ice station that used to be here.

At the furthest end of the food court is Temple Snacks 廟口小吃, named after a famous market district in Keelung city of Taiwan. They specialize in regional small eats but oddly I didn’t see any seafood on the menu, a trademark of the Keelung Miaokou Night Market.

Place your order here. The staff is very friendly.

Fool-proof menu with pictures and names of the food. Also everything is cheap and unique.

Hanged above the cashier is the secret menu that’s in only in Chinese. If you can read these or feel adventurous, definitely order from this menu as well.

Reiterating from my previous posts, I love kitchens that are visible to the public. You can see how clean the place is and what goes on with your food.

Fried Chicken Roll 廟口炸雞卷

Fried Chicken Roll 廟口炸雞卷

You will love the crispy bean curd skin of the Fried Chicken Roll 廟口炸雞卷 ($5.75). Inside the roll is a filling of taro and onions but I don’t think there is an ounce of chicken. I guess it gets the name because it resembles fried chicken? Best part of the dish is the garlic sauce that lights up your taste and smell senses.

Bamboo Shoots & Stewed Pork w. Rice 廟口筍干焢肉飯

Bamboo Shoots & Stewed Pork w. Rice 廟口筍干焢肉飯

They don’t mess around with the pork belly in the Bamboo Shoots & Stewed Pork w. Rice 廟口筍干焢肉飯 ($6.75). The whole chunk of meat was juicy and full of flavor. Accompanying the rice is some shredded bamboo shoots, minced fatty pork, lettuce, and tea egg.

 The most famous vendor at the food court is Hankou Steaks 漢口牛排. Everything that is fried or grilled is good here but they are most famous for their steaks served on a sizzling platter. You can check our their menu here. I do fear from the C rating in the back though…

As soon as you walk into the vicinity, you feel an aura of oil in the air.

House Special Steak 漢口牛排 ($14.75)

The House Special Steak 漢口牛排 ($14.75) is what everybody gets. Its hard to resist when you hear the sizzling sound and smell the beefy aroma from the plates of everyone walking pass you.

House Special Noodle Soup 阿宗麵線

A restaurant called Ah Chung used to be next to Hankou Steaks but I think their menus consolidated. Being so, Hankou also serves the Ay Chung Mee Sua or House Special Noodle Soup 阿宗麵線 ($5.00). It is a soup of flour-rice noodles with some bamboo and cilantro in a bonito-flavored broth. After tasting the original in Taiwan, this one was not as deep in bonito flavor and a bit saltier. Nonetheless, I am glad I was able to find this soup in New York. 

Flushing Mall Food Court has seen better days and I am amazed on how this whole mall is still running considering there is no business in any of the shops. Every year there are always rumors of the mall and food court closing down and I can see why with competing food courts in Queens Crossing and New World Mall. Very soon, a fourth food court (New York Food Court) is going to open on 133-35 Roosevelt Ave. As for now, Flushing Mall is here to stay so might as well make the best of it and have a taste of history.

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot (小肥羊)

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot (小肥羊)
136-59 37th Ave
Flushing, NY 11354
$$$

The best thing Mongolians brought to China is probably hot pot. If there is anything Asians can agree about, it is hot pots are awesome. Each Asian country has their own variation and at Little Sheep, you have your traditional Chinese yuanyang 鴛鴦 variety with the double section pot (yuanyang makes references to the type of ducks that always come in pairs, hence the 2 section pot). Be sure not to get this place confused with the “Little Lamb” hot pot restaurant in Skyview Mall.

Little Sheep Mongolian Hot Pot is proclaimed by some as the best Chinese hot pot place in Flushing. Without a doubt it is certainly the largest and has the most influence to the hot pot scene. You can even find their hot pot soup base sold in Asian super markets.

As soon as you walk in, you can already tell that this place is different from most hot pot restaurants. Take notice of the ventilation system on the ceiling and the modern interior decor. Arriving at dinner time means a wait time of at least 30 minutes.

The restaurant has many tables but the walkways can be hard to navigate due to the fold up tables between each table.

Fortunately, there is a picture menu to help eaters know what they are ordering.

How it works here is first a $3.75 soup fee is charged per person. You pick the type of soup you want either in a whole pot or half and half, yuanyang style.

Next you purchase additional dishes of food and add that on top of the soup fee. Just put the number of dishes you want in the boxes on the corresponding row.  At first, you might think that the soup fee is cheap but the dishes of food add up and can get quite expensive in the end. A plate of the cheapest beef is $7.50 and most vegetables range from $3.95-4.95.

One side is the milky herbal non-spicy broth while the other is the spicy broth flooded with dried chili, peppercorn, and other spices.

The deciding factor that determines the quality of the hot pot is the broth. I am quite disappointed that the broths served at Little Sheep tasted exactly the same as their packaged versions sold in every Chinese supermarket. Everything was the same down to the flavor, the msg, and even the types of preserved herbs. Being so, I didn’t think the broth tasted that special and was very one dimensional, almost like the flavor of instant ramen soup packets. I kind of hope that they made their soup from scratch.

Since the tables are so tiny, each table is accompanied by a TV dinner table to put the vegetables and smaller plates.

Taro Root ($4.95)

Enoki Mushrooms ($4.95)

Beef Balls ($5.50)

Watercress ($4.95)

USDA Choice Ribeye ($7.95)

The choice ribeye is the cheapest beef cut they have. Definitely expensive for the portion you get. Picture above is the 6oz so if you are ordering more than one, be sure to order the 12oz set at discount.

Egg Dumplings ($4.95) and Fish Dumplings ($4.95)

The quality of ingredients and cleanliness is unmatched in Flushing. Also the place is spacious and great for groups. However, I’ve been to much better hot pot places flavor-wise and price-wise all around the city. And since Little Sheep sells their soup in markets anyways, the hot pot here can be easily replicated at home for a fraction of the price.

Yoz Shanghai (老鴨粉絲湯) (Recommended)

Yoz Shanghai (老鴨粉絲湯)
41-28 Main St 1FL
Flushing, NY 11355
$

Yoz Shanghai is one of the best kept secrets of Golden Mall and all of Flushing. Inside this mecca of cheap eats holds a small restaurant no bigger than your bedroom. Appearances aside, what makes Yoz beautiful is their cheap dumplings and… 8 soup dumplings (小籠包) for only $4.00!  As I write this, I cringe that I might have opened a Pandora’s Box because attention and popularity equals price inflation.

We live in a time where every other restaurant is raising dumpling prices. You can’t find soup dumplings under $1.00 a dumpling anymore. Thankfully Yoz continues to keeps the prices down. Additionally, they specialize in duck noodles and the traditional pan-fried dumplings (鍋貼) and boiled dumplings (水餃).

Locating the restaurant begins at the cozy Golden Mall Food Court. We head to the 1st floor to find Yoz Shanghai.

After going in the restaurant is to the right just a few shops in. Easy as pie.

The menu here is simple, you have your choice of various dumplings and then noodles to fill the rest of the stomach. Note: For the duck noodles, the one on the left is noodles with “duck treasure” (you can use your imagination with that), duck liver, and duck blood. The one on the right is duck noodles in a osmanthus broth with preserved duck meat.

There are barely any seating space (2 four person tables and 2 two person tables) and getting a seat requires some stalking and pushing if necessary.

Its a misconception that hole in the wall restaurants are dirty. In my opinion, if I can see the kitchen and the staff cooking the food, its clean in my books.

Soup Dumplings or Steamed Pork Buns

I chose to pack the soup dumplings 小籠包 ($4.00/8 pieces) to go because getting a seat was impossible. At only 50 cents a dumpling, these didn’t taste cheap at all. Each dumpling had a even soup to meat ratio and taste amazing. Also the skin was paper thin. It was good for chewing but bad for picking the dumplings up as a lot of them popped on contact. Which brings me to recommending that you eat these at the restaurant when they are served in the bamboo steamers.

Guihua Duck with Noodle Soup

The Guihua Duck with Noodle Soup 桂花鴨粉絲湯 ($5.75) is a good supplement to the dumplings. It is filled with rice noodles, fried tofu, baby bok choi, cilantro, and Chinese salted/cured duck. If you are Cantonese, the duck is really similar to 臘鴨, the flat salty dried duck that is seen hanging in supermarkets.

Yoz Shanghai definitely deserves some more attention but I hope at the same time prices doesn’t rise because of this. Actually, all the restaurants in the Golden Mall is worth a visit as the restaurants here serves some of the most traditional Chinese cuisines you can find. It avoids any American influences so you know this stuff is authentic.

Fu Run (賦潤東北美食) (Recommended)

Fu Run (賦潤東北美食)
40-09 Prince St
Flushing, NY 11354
$$
Menu

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.

Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant

Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant (敦城海鮮酒家)
13330 39th Ave
Flushing, NY 11354
$$

Asian Jewels Seafood Restaurant is a solid dim sum place in Flushing. It is more comfortable and cleaner than the others but a bit more expensive. The restaurant also seems to cater more to the younger generation as the ratio of teens to adults is balanced. Great food and atmosphere shows why Asian Jewels has been in the dim sum scene for all these years.

Their dim sum variety is noticeably larger so there is more unorthodox dim sum dishes. Of course the ones shown on top are the usual ones.

Their dim sum prices goes as follows:

Small – $2.15
Medium – $3.20
Large – $3.95
Jumbo – $5.75
Giant – $6.50
Super – $9.95

However, I do not know which dim sum correspond to what price but the majority of them will fall under medium.

Pan-fried Chive Dumplings

Stuffed Peppers

Stir Fried Flat Noodles

Ground Pork Meatballs

Beef Brisket & Tripe (牛腩)

Shrimp Dumplings (蝦餃)

Braised Chicken Feet (鳳爪)

Tripe (牛百葉)

Fried Dough Wrapped with Rice Noodle (炸兩)

Supreme Soy Sauce Fried Noodles (豉油皇炒麵)