(This venue is closed.) "Pitha" (Pit-uh) describes many Bangladeshi and Bengali cakes that may be savory or sweet, fried, baked, or steamed. For this sticky-sweet batch ($3.99), a home-printed label identified the ingredients as rice flour, oil, and sugar and gave the name kori pitha. Jhinuk, or seashell, seems to be a much more common name for this variety; perhaps kori specifies cowrie.
Kacha Bazar
168-25A Hillside Ave. (at 168th Pl.), Jamaica, Queens
718-725-0277
