Try the sweet and sour dumpling soup ($4.25), "a red-hot, delicious mess of chili oil, pork broth, and thinly wrapped dumplings." Read more.
"Go to the source, an unassuming bodega in Borough Park, and ogle the rainbow of more than 30 flavors of paletas ($1) stacked in the freezer case." Read more.
Try the bamboo pith-deliriously spongy, unlike anything you've tasted-the winter melon provides a plain green backdrop. The broth in which the constituents flounder is chicken-y tasting & soothing
The sauce for the couscous royal comes in a separate bowl. In Morocco they like their couscous “wet” and pour the bowl in; you would do well to follow their lead. Read more.
Recommended: Sautéed sweet sausage, grilled mackerel, bahay kubo fried rice, chicken pad see ew. The best dishes stick close to Southeast Asia, like the pork-belly adobo and the green papaya salad. Read more.
Great curried beef and veggie dishes. Good soup, too, when you start feeling a sickness coming on
Try the rotisserie chicken. "Dressed with lemon, garlic, herbs and spices, then roasted perfectly, it’s just the kind of chicken dinner you’d put on the table if you had the time." Read more.
"Try the tikka with Halal Gyro’s fantastic green sauce, and bring a book—these Afghani dishes are cooked to order." Read more.
Check out the Taiwanese dumplings. ($6) "The beef, pork and chicken dumplings here are longer and skinnier than the variety normally found at the five-for-$1 shops in Chinatown, but no less tasty." Read more.
Try this lunch truck's tilapia. ($5) "An outsized chunk of the flaky white fish is fried and doused in a spicy sauce of stewed onions, peppers and herbs." Read more.
There are tons of cheap and tasty options here, but start with wonton soup. "The delicate, oversized wontons, dotted with a single stud of ground pork filling, bob in a thick, savory broth. Read more.
One thing that sets Super Taste apart from its competition is the amazing Mount Qi noodles: "a bright red, almost glowing, bowl of hand-pulled noodles with some really incredible spicing." Read more.
Try the pork pancake, which holds "a decent helping of minced pork that is doused liberally with hoisin sauce and topped with cilantro." Don't forget to add chili oil! Read more.
Try the xiao long bao (soup dumplings). "At just the right thickness, the soup dumplings’ skins ensure that both beginner and expert can pluck them effortlessly from the steamer." Read more.
"Don't miss" the salt-baked squid ($9.95). It's "a mountainous pile of lightly battered and tender chunks of crisp, well seasoned cephalopod." Read more.
Try the fried chicken drumstick. "Crunch your way thought the drumstick’s crispy shell, and you’ll be rewarded with juicy, moist chicken meat." Read more.
Try the Cabeza taco here, made with soft chunks of rich, pungent cow’s-head meat spread on a pair of griddled corn tortillas with tomatillo salsa. It's one of NYC's 26 best tacos! Read more.
