Eating In Translation

What's Eating In Translation?

This website began as a collection of field notes on interesting food I'd tried, or planned to try, in and around New York. Since its launch, in January 2005, I've visited thousands of venues, from white-linen restaurants to elbows-on-the-table eateries, as well as street vendors, fairs, festivals, grocers, and greenmarkets — and my "to eat" list is longer than ever.

Fauzia's Heavenly Delights

Fauzia's cart was a fixture near the Bronx courthouses till late last year, when Columbia entreated her to set up beside the construction site of the school's Manhattanville campus. New to the neighborhood, from the rotating menu: a Jamaican-ish grilled lamb platter.

Fauzia's Heavenly Delights
Cart on Broadway near the northwest corner with 131st St., Manhattan
718-930-5711
www.FauziasHeavenlyDelights
Weekday lunch only

Bolivian Llama Party: Pump Up the Salteñas

At a glance, a salteña "resembles nothing more than a fat baked empanada — a resemblance that can vanish with one incautious bite." Read about the Oropeza brothers, their restaurant Bolivian Llama Party, and their salteñas on Culinary Backstreets.

Hadi

In this mango-flavored Pakistani dessert, the gelatinized skin and a fragment of cake rusk add two distinct textures, so you're not just eating pudding, pudding, pudding.

Hadi
683 Coney Island Ave. (Cortelyou Rd.-Slocum Pl.), Kensington, Brooklyn
347-240-1175

8090 Taiwan Cuisine

Like all indoor dining rooms in the city, Flushing's New York Food Court is closed to customers except for ordering, picking up, and washing up. It did offer well-sheltered tables in the parking lot; my cuttlefish thick soup provided the only warmth.

8090 Taiwan Cuisine
133-35 Roosevelt Ave. (Prince St.-College Point Blvd., inside the New York Food Court, stall 24), Flushing, Queens
646-683-1763
www.Instagram.com/explore/locations/1239641742722591/8090TaiwaneseCuisineNY

Angel Indian Restaurant

Angel has expanded its all-vegetarian menu to include meat — but at our outdoor table, we never gave a thought to passing up the kale pakoda (shown above and in the first photo that follows).