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This small order of roast pork sat on a bed of cabbage and rice that had been christened with two ladles of the roasting juices. No grain was left behind.
Wah Fung No. 1 Fast Food
79 Chrystie St. (Grand-Hester Sts.), Manhattan
212-925-5175
www.Facebook.com/WahFungNo1
Closed Monday
On the third, dessert, stop of a Saturday stroll, I passed up a pierogi combo of strawberry-and-cheese in favor of blueberry-and-cheese. On my next visit, my choice might well be cheese-and-cheese.
Pierozek
592 Manhattan Ave. (Nassau-Driggs Aves.), Greenpoint, Brooklyn
718-576-3866
www.Facebook.com/Pierozek-112378223526473
Onion offers a counterpoint to the sweetness of a Bukharian bichak samsa, filled with "pumpkin," likely butternut squash.
H/T Ike Allen, Culinary Backstreets
Chaikhana Sem Sorak
6352 Booth St. (63rd Dr.-63rd Ave.), Rego Park, Queens
718-275-0777
www.ChaikhanaSemSorok.com
Closed from midafternoon Friday and all Saturday
... after a long day chasing down hot leads of my own. (Why this movie was subtitled in Thai and not Vietnamese remains a mystery.) From another November some years back, brought to mind by a recent confluence of circumstance.
Taiwanese-American breakfast, savory and sweet: milk bun zhu jiao, with egg and braised pork hock, and custard toast.
Win Son Bakery
164 Graham Ave. (at Montrose Ave.), East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
917-909-1725
www.WinSonBrooklyn.com/#/bakery/menu
Sorullos are Puerto Rican corn fritters, often sweet, sometimes filled with ground meat or mild cheese. These sorullitos are a petite version — just the corn — at a petite price.
Note, too, the coloring of the hand-drawn sign, which picks up the green, white, and red of one bandera hanging behind it. Reportedly the proprietor was born in Mexico but has prepared cocina criolla for two decades; my next visit will surely entail the salt cod fritters better known as bacalaitos.
American Coffee Shop
108 Moore St. (at Humboldt St., inside the Moore Street Market, stall 3), East Williamsburg, Brooklyn
718-302-0779
www.Facebook.com/AmericanCoffeeShop.3
Sunday hours unclear; calling ahead would be wise
Steamed minced meat and salt fish from a small Cantonese restaurant, to all appearances a mom-and-pop. In concert with rice, mellow daikon, and salty mackerel, the minced pork patty seemed almost sweet.
E Dim Sum
2006 65th St. (20th-21st Aves.), Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
917-443-3160
An apricot meltaway proved fiendishly difficult to photograph out-of-doors. (I blame powdered sugar, but I can't stay away.) In its stead, I offer one of a series by PAWS21 to beautify the traffic-control boxes of Bayonne.
Paulanto Bakery
387-389 Broadway (at Andrew St.), Bayonne, New Jersey
201-339-9001
www.Facebook.com/PaulantoBakery
Colors of the EAMAYC* Sunday buffet at this Sri Lankan restaurant: deviled chicken; coconut-laced kale mallum; pork black curry; chile and coconut sambols; palak paneer; eggs; eggplant moju; kiri, housemade yogurt soon to be topped with palm sugar syrup; and the consequence, kiri-pani.
H/T Jared Cohee, Eat the World NYC
Randiwa
1405 Richmond Ave. (at Christopher Ln.), Bull's Head, Staten Island
718-477-1044
www.Randiwa.net
Closed Tuesday
* "Eat as much as you can," Randiwa's formulation of "all you can eat." The buffet is bottomless, and the staff don't push to turn tables; let's disregard concision.
Cucumber salad, a palate freshener al fresco following a walk from Staten Island (at the far end of the photo at bottom) across the Bayonne Bridge.
Fifth Street Deli-Ette
156 Broadway (at East 5th St.), Bayonne, New Jersey
201-436-3949
www.Facebook.com/Fifth-Street-Deli-Ette-120967344648414
Closed Monday and Tuesday
Thank you!
