(This venue is closed.) Taiwanese tamales?
This central Chinatown bakery markets the Asian sticky-rice bindles called zongzi (very roughly, Dsoong-dsuh) under a Mexican name, and very successfully, it seems. May May's version (shown "husked"; $2) packs seasoned pork, large skin-on peanuts, and shiitake mushrooms in sticky rice made fragrant by a wrap of bamboo leaves.
In brisker weather if not year-round, May May also sells cups of a potent ginger lemon cider that you'll smell long before you taste. It's very restorative.
May May
35 Pell St. (Mott-Doyers Sts.), Manhattan
212-267-0733
