Chicken Bo-Bo appetizer
In between the gluttonous food bingeing at banquets, we managed to stuff ourselves with other foods. I’m sad to say that my pants are really tight now, in fact, I really wish I was wearing sweat pants instead of jeans. Sweat pants without the elastic bands. Actually, I wish I were just wearing a giant moo-moo.
This is Spicy & Tasty, located on Prince St. in downtown Flushing, Queens.
You can check out the menu here.
Spicy & Tasty is a Sichuan restaurant. Everything is spicy. If you like spicy food, try Sichuan sometime. I’m surprised I could actually handle the spice. There’s certain spices that hit your stomach hard, or just hit your tongue and not your stomach, or just burn your lips. This can hit your stomach hard. I mean, it’s lots and lots of peppers. You might consider taking some pepcid or tums before eating this many peppers.
Anyway, the Chicken Bo-Bo was delicious. It is a cold, spicy chicken appetizer. I wish I had more expertise in all this food so I could talk more about it, but I’m an amateur. All I can say is, it was all delicious.
Fish Fillet in Fresh Hot Pepper
This was my favorite dish. I felt like the fish fillet absorbed the most flavor out of all the dishes, and I liked putting the spicy sauce onto my bowl of rice.
Potato with Green Peppers
This was surprisingly really good. It is julienned potato slices cooked in vinegar, with green peppers. It’s crunchy and slightly sour. I can’t wait to try this recipe soon at home, since it seems easy enough to make. It makes a great side dish.
Frog in fresh hot pepper
This was Chris’s favorite dish I believe. The frog was cooked with tons of garlic cloves, scallions, ginger and peppers, and served bubbling hot. The texture of the frog, to me, resembles a cross between extremely tender chicken and fish. It absorbed the spicy sauce well. I ate a garlic clove thinking it was frog. But the garlic cloves are pretty good too.
In the front of the restaurant, there were trays of food and I have no idea if they were already prepared, or just ingredients that go into dishes you can choose.
This was a good first experience in Sichuan food. I would definitely recommend this place and all the dishes we chose.
Spicy & Tasty
39-07 Prince Street
Flushing, NY 11354
718-359-1601
Street food!
These were lamb kabobs down the street in Flushing where we just ate that huge Sichuan meal.
The Sichuan spiciness didn’t hit me as hard as these skewers of meat. I think she sprinkled a little too much spice on these. My eyes were watering like crazy and my lips swelled up for awhile.
Beef King is located on Bayard Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Chris and I usually buy a pound of jerky here before heading back to Rochester. It is $20 a pound, and we usually get a quarter pound of each variety (spicy, fruity, oyster flavor, and pork). They serve jerky strips or chunks, and now it seems they’ve included ‘wet’ spicy jerky strips as opposed to the dry jerky strips.
See my dad pointing his finger at the Curry-Flavored Beef Chunks.
This was also Halloween night when we were purchasing the jerky. It was amusing that so many kids were out all day in costumes, going trick-or-treating in stores rather than houses. When a little girl came into the beef jerky store, the owner asked if she wanted jerky or candy.
Candy, of course.
89 Bayard Street
New York, New York 10013
212-233-6612
Backtracking a bit now. We had dessert at a place called Cafe Lalo, located on 83rd between Amsterdam and Broadway.
My cousin told me this place was where they filmed a scene for You’ve Got Mail. You know, the part where Meg Ryan was waiting for Tom Hanks with a rose on the table, and he ditched her?
Chris ordered the Pumpkin Cheesecake. I think it was the best.
Why does it always seem that he orders the dessert that I want? Maybe it’s because I always want what I can’t have.
It can’t be because he has better taste than me. It just can’t.
I had the Hazelnut Mousse with Frangelico. Don’t get me wrong, mine was pretty good too. But I wanted to eat his cheesecake. Like, 12 slices.
281 West 83rd Street
New York, New York 10024
212-496-6031
Back in Chinatown again. Just wanted to show you a couple of pictures of a bakery my dad got some cookies and pastries in. There are so many Chinese bakeries to walk into. If you ever feel intimidated and don’t know what to buy, just try anything. Almond cookies are always pretty popular and a safe bet.
When you order, just point and tell them the number you want. That’s what I do.
My Cantonese is shameful.
More food yippee!! Yeah, you should have went with the pumpkin cheesecake, lol!!
Frog legs are AWESOME!