Ukrainian East Village Restaurant – Cheese Blintzes
MAN $8.95 for 3 VEG Photograph by James Boo For decades the East Village meant Ukrainian and Polish food. Now only a few of those old restaurants remain, and East Village Ukrainian Restaurant is one...
View ArticleHappy Garden Palace – Salted Fish and Chicken Fried Rice
MAN $4.95 Photograph by James Boo Happy Garden Palace is a nondescript little restaurant on Chinatown’s East Broadway that offers Fujianese immigrants inexpensive, generously portioned cooking from...
View ArticleTop Taste Restaurant – Guilin-Style Rice Noodle Soup
BK $4.99 Guilin is an tourist-friendly city near the Vietnam border in southern China, and the spirit of Vietnamese cuisine pervades its food. The signature dish here, Guilin-Style Rice Noodle Soup,...
View ArticleBombay Frankie/Roti Roll – Chana Masala Frankie
MAN $4.50 (2 for $8) VEG Photograph by Bethany Wong One of the few really good, cheap options near Columbia University is Bombay Frankie (a.k.a. Roti Roll), which brings Indian street food to...
View ArticleBZ Grill – Pork Gyro
QNS $7.25 Photograph by Robyn Lee Astoria is home to plenty of good Greek food, in general, and a wonderful gyro sandwich, in particular. That sandwich—BZ Grill’s pork gyro—is worth a significant...
View ArticleSheng Wang – Steamed Dumplings
MAN $3.00 for 10 Some of the best dumplings in Manhattan’s Chinatown can be found at Sheng Wang. The characters shuǐ jiǎo actually translate to “boiled dumplings,” but if you boiled these dumplings,...
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