Usually a visit to Shangrila Express requires a visit to Jackson Heights; today, make that Morningside Heights.
In recent months the Columbia neighborhood has also played host to Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream — in colder weather hot chocolate is the greater attraction — and the Wafels and Dinges truck. Shangrila's lamb biryani ($5) was a basic rendition, flecked with orange and studded with chunks of meat (and a lone cardomom pod), with a dose of white sauce to counter its chili heat. The most appealing feature: its appearance on Broadway, the one in Manhattan rather than Queens, if only this once.
Shangrila Express
Broadway near 112th St.
More often at 73-13 Broadway (near 73rd St.), Jackson Heights, Queens
347-951-6300
so that's where they went... One of the guys that owned the queens truck opened up a brick and mortar by the same name. And just recently, another tibetan cart has taken the spot formerly occupied by them - called Potala Foods http://www.flickr.com/photos/orlick/4345018612/ . I like that they went to Morningside Heights, if that's the case. Spread the wealth.
Posted by: JO | February 10, 2010 at 01:37 AM
I've seen them there for a few weeks now. Always smells so good.
Posted by: todd | February 10, 2010 at 09:40 PM