In Annie Hall, growing up under a roller coaster was just a sight gag; for Fuzhou Good Taste Grocery, doing business under the rumbling Manhattan Bridge is an everyday affair.
The proprietors' most celebrated offering, a mustard green sandwich ($1.25), is prepared and cellophane-wrapped long in advance, so the sesame-seeded bing that frames it may be pliable in the morning but stiff late in the day. This was the latter, but, even so, how often do you spend so little green for so much green?
Also shown: warm, fresh-scooped soy custard with syrup (a number of years ago, $1; nowadays, perhaps an extravagant $1.50 or so).
Fuzhou Good Taste Grocery
75 East Broadway (Market-Forsyth Sts.), Manhattan
Dave, this would be the same mustard greens sandwich that Calvin Trillin talks about, no?
Posted by: Chris Crowley | January 27, 2013 at 09:52 AM
This would be the one, yes. In his book Feeding a Yen he refers to it simply as a "greens sandwich"; pressed to name its ingredients, Trillin's stock response, reportedly, is that "I don't want to know; I like it too much."
Posted by: Dave Cook | January 27, 2013 at 10:30 AM
Yeah, that's one of my favorite essays in the book. Was curious to see whether more "greens sandwiches" had popped up with the increased influx of Fukienese immigrants.
Posted by: Chris Crowley | January 29, 2013 at 09:34 PM