New World Mall is frequently used for community and promotional events - such was the case on our last visit when the Cantonese television station TVM invaded the food court. While this mall might look like any other indoor shopping mall in suburbia at first glance, you’ll quickly notice that almost every fashion, goods, and food retailer caters specifically towards the Asian community. While it’s quite refreshing for a couple bites, it quickly turns into one of the strangest eating experiences as your tongue turns to plastic and cheeks begin to tingle (don’t be frightened when the Poland Spring you’re drinking tastes rancid - your mouth will return to normal after 5 minutes). The House Special Salad is a cold glass noodle dish with seaweed, chopped scallions, carrots, and a generous portion of the hot and numbing dressing. While many Sichuan restaurants that tout their hot-and-numbing dishes are usually more talk than walk, Chengdu Heavenly Plenty does not disappoint with its novocain-level numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s a very tiny restaurant, so you might have to eat them curbside. Listed as #6 on the menu, these pork dumplings from White Bear are some of the best you’ll find in Flushing, with a perfect amount of roasted chilies, pickled vegetables, chili oil, and greens to compliment the dish.
Note to soup dumpling novices –DO NOT eat this like a normal dumpling! Soup dumplings contain a hot broth that must be slurped out before eating the whole thing in one bite (read this article for a little soup dumpling eating 101, but in short, pick the dumpling up by the knot with the tongs or chopsticks, place it on your spoon, nibble a tiny hole with your teeth, and slurp away!).
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This little restaurant off Main Street consistently pumps out soup dumplings full of broth exploding with flavor in an ever so delicate steamed pork bun. We must admit that the Shanghai Soup Dumplings (Xiao Long Bao) from Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao are some of the best outside of China.
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