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There are several Indonesian food spots in Queens, but what better spot to try out a variety of dishes than an Indonesian food bazaar? A few weeks ago, we trekked out to Long Island City to the Masjid al Hikmah mosque. About a dozen booths were planted around what looked to be the mosque parking lot. [...] There’s been quite a lot of buzz about Wafa’s lately, the homey Middle-Eastern eatery on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills. Mostly, the talk’s been about Wafa’s baba ghanoush, but there’s a lot more to this modest establishment than its savory eggplant dip. There’s nothing fancy about Wafa’s. The room is small and plain and [...] By now, the Flushing malls, with their compact food booths from which emerge some dazzling regional Chinese dishes, are a well-known stomping ground for the culinarily curious. The New World Mall, which opened last year, is hidden on the lower floor of a nondescript office building on Flushing’s bustling Main Street, the predominantly Chinese area’s [...] There had to be a month devoted to local beer making and imbibing, right? And what better month than July? That’s assuming the sun comes out, it gets hot and steamy like a normal NY summer–and it stops raining. A tall order, I know, given that, weather-wise, we’ve turned into Portland, OR, Slow Food is [...] I was late last Tuesday to the 28th annual James Joyce orgy, Bloomsday on Broadway, Symphony Space’s 12-hour tribute to the Irish novelist. This year the theme was food. People scampered in and out throughout the 12-hour marathon that began at 6 p.m. and ended at midnight. I spotted a lot of gray heads dotting [...] |
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