a late-night yakitori counter where you pick your own skewers
Must-try: Ribeye skewers, Duck tongue, Flounder head
📍 36-17 Prince St, Flushing, NY 11354
a fluorescent-lit shop from the 1970s with a genuinely thin, crispy crust
Must-try: Plain cheese slice, Sicilian slice, Heros
📍 30-27 Stratton St, Flushing, NY 11354
a pastel-and-neon wonderland of Hong Kong breakfast and lunch
Must-try: Salted egg yolk lava french toast, Beef satay instant noodle soup, Milk tea
📍 42-35 Main St Ste 1A, Flushing, NY 11355
a basement cafeteria under the city's oldest Hindu temple, entirely vegetarian
Must-try: Idli, Sambar, Dosa
📍 45-57 Bowne St, Flushing, NY 11355
a counter specializing in soft fish dumplings with mackerel and chives
Must-try: Shandong fish dumplings, Pan-fried pork and shrimp dumplings, Vinegar
📍 135-23 40th Rd, Flushing, NY 11354
A Flushing counter selling wontons in chili oil for a few dollars — one of the most famous cheap dishes in New York
Must-try: #6 wontons with hot sauce, Pork dumplings, Cold noodles
📍 135-02 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
Chengdu cooking in Flushing — numbing, oily, properly spiced, in a theatrically decorated room
Must-try: Mapo tofu, Chengdu-style fish, Sliced beef in chili oil
📍 39-16 Prince St, Flushing, NY 11354
a Shanghainese stall built on creamy, comforting crab roe
Must-try: Crab roe over noodles, Chicken soup with crab roe, Yellow croaker noodle soup
📍 133-35 Roosevelt Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
Flushing's soup dumpling benchmark since 2006 — eighteen folds, thin skins, and a queue that never really ends
Must-try: Pork xiao long bao, Crab and pork soup dumplings, Scallion pancake
📍 39-16 Prince St, Suite 104, Flushing, NY 11354
a theme park with much better food, sake flights and tatami seating included
Must-try: Karaage, Yakitori sampler, Ramen
📍 141-26 Northern Blvd, Flushing, NY 11354
a classic cart experience in a former diner, Greek columns included
Must-try: Dim sum carts, Rice rolls with fried shrimp, Har gow
📍 60-15 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355
Flushing's Cantonese banquet hall — cart dim sum on weekends, live seafood tanks, and a ballroom-sized room
Must-try: Har gow, Peking duck, Live lobster with ginger and scallion
📍 133-30 39th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
a specialist in colorful soup dumplings with genuinely varying broths
Must-try: Xiao long bao, Crab and pork dumplings, Ten varieties of soup dumpling
📍 135-33 40th Rd, Flushing, NY 11354
a tiny shop making some of the city's finest dumplings, thick dimpled skin and all
Must-try: Boiled pork and cabbage dumplings, Fried lamb and cilantro dumplings, Chili oil
📍 35-46 Union St, Flushing, NY 11354
a spacious room with a koi pond and a very good Peking duck
Must-try: Peking duck with pineapple, Chewy pancakes, Soup dumplings
📍 133-42 39th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
a multi-level hot pot restaurant themed like a rural village
Must-try: Hot pot with rich broths, Crab stick, Bean curd
📍 37-04 Prince St, Flushing, NY 11354
a tiny Hong Kong-style cafe with springy egg noodles and jumbo wontons
Must-try: Wontons in hot broth, Dace fish balls, Beef stew
📍 135-11 38th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
the top choice for Uyghur cooking, chewy noodles and cheap skewers
Must-try: Laghman with fried fatty beef, Meat skewers, Saffron tea
📍 43-39 Main St, Flushing, NY 11355