NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

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NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby shivers » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:02 am

If you follow the NY foodie blogs or Bourdain's TV show, this is old news. For the rest of you, check it! Xi'an Famous Foods is cheap as hell, and serves some amazing food. Liang Pi is the dish you cannot pass up: thick, springy noodles like nothing I've ever had, with spongy wheat gluten pieces to soak up the yummy, spicy sauce. Four bucks gets you a huge plate that will fill a total pig, or a rickshaw driver. The cumin lamb burger is great too. Tiger Vegetable Salad should be called Dragon Breath Salad, which is cool if yer into that.

The new East Village location is more convenient for the average visitor, but nothing beats the filthy rabbit warren that is the Golden Shopping Mall basement in Flushing, Queens.

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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby JamesInTheWorld » Thu Nov 04, 2010 6:08 am

Asian Street Stall food in NYC - great idea


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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby Kurt » Thu Nov 04, 2010 2:22 pm

JamesInTheWorld wrote:Asian Street Stall food in NYC - great idea


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For the vendors especially. Imagine coming from some coal smoke China town to New York and finding you can sell the same food for 10X the price and have people declare it good and cheap.

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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby shivers » Thu Nov 04, 2010 3:58 pm

Thanks, Kurt!

There is a Szechuan stall at Golden Shopping Mall that looks so awesome. I keep telling myself I'll try it, but the Liang Pi of Xi'an Famous lures me in. Every. Single. Time.
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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby marie-angelique » Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:35 pm

where have you been, young lady??

glad you're back :)
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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby shivers » Thu Nov 04, 2010 7:52 pm

This and that. :)

Oh, and there are also some dishes at Xi'an that I do not recommend: Spicy Pig Pudding Salad with Garlic, and Spicy & Tingly Lamb Face Salad. While I am normally OK with congealed, cooked slabs of pig's blood, they fucked it up when I tried it. The blood was tough and grainy with no flavor. The lamb face meat is fatty as hell, which doesn't work out so in a cold dish. Something similar served hot might be good.
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Postby JamesInTheWorld » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:15 am

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Postby Chimborazo » Mon Nov 08, 2010 1:39 am

That looks and sounds awesome, and so does the lamb burger.
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Re: NYC Eats: Western Chinese food is awesome!

Postby HarveySlickwater » Thu Dec 29, 2011 3:55 am

Lived in Xian for several months. Fell in love with the food. I drive to Queens to eat at this place once or twice a month. It is literally a whole in the wall. Do yourself a favor and order the pork burger (actually several).
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