Grub Crawl

,It was yet another staycation for us over the holidays with the virus spiking here, there, and everywhere.  So what to do when you can't travel but want to see the world?  We decided to eat our way across Queens and so our culinary feast began. 

Stop one of our tour around Queens was Flushing for some breakfast! We were hungry and wanted something just little bit different but not too much.  So we stopped here on Main Street for a scallion pancake with a fried egg inside. Delicious.

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There was much more to see and eat in Flushing so our food oddessy led us to Roosevelt Ave for some bok choy and mushroom bao.  Can't get enough of those little treats.  Now that our tummies were filled we headed to one of the many markets and got some Chinese cauliflower, nothing we had ever seen before, but we are now fans of it. Its not something you want to eat raw, but stir fried its awesome!

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After winding our way around Jamaica we headed over to Forest Hills to have some of the silkiest ramen soup we ever had, at Jubao Express.  This was the best we have had, including Japan.  This took the chill off and we were smothered with all the goodness that soup had to offer.

No sooner had we polished off our soup then we spotted the Molino food truck across the street offering Columbian. We went for the authentico tamales. It had chicken, peas carrots and a whole lot more goodness. These were quite a bit different from the Mexican versions and quite scrumptious.

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By now it was time to head over to Rego Park and do some food shopping on 108 Street and boy were there lots of choices.  We began at the Nagilah Market and the shopkeeper, who was Iranian, was incredibly nice and helpful, with information and a sample of a few unusual (at least to us) items that he insisted we had to try.  

By now we were wearing down, and it was getting dark, and we still had three more stops on the block.  First was the market Samarkand, where they had a cornucopia of prepared foods.  We didn't know exactly what the items we choose were, but deciphered enough to know it was dough filled with meat and a couple of casserole type items.  So so good. Next was Gastronom, with a smoked fish department like no other, and again a long buffet of prepared foods where we indulged in a few mystery selections that turned out to be excellent.

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By now we were out of gas and almost ready to head home, but decided to end our food adventure with a stop at Patel brothers market on Hillside Ave.  They have an incredible variety of everything imaginable from South Asia, and we poked around and found a few things we knew we wanted and a couple of splurges that we were anxious to try. That was a success.

While we never left Queens, we felt like we covered half the globe-all in a single day. We loved the adventure and are already building a list of all the places we will hit when we do it again-Astoria, Sunnyside, Jackson Heights, Ridgewood. ..........Any suggestions, shoot us an email at [email protected]. We would also love to hear about your suggestions for our next grub crawl!