(This venue is closed.) Green vegetables of the day, GT style: Bora, my server called them, on my first encounter with this Guyanese corner shop. If they hadn't been snipped so short, maybe I would've pegged them more quickly as long beans, rendered sour and spicy. Also shown: long beans and salt fish; pumpkin and cassava pones.
Guyana's national colors are evident on the awning (shown in 2011, but little changed). So is the legend "GT style," which began to puzzle me, on the day of that first visit, only after I'd walked several blocks away. Soon, however, I happened on an impromptu sidewalk stand where a fellow was peddling black pudding. He sold two styles: T&T, which you may know means Trinidad and Tobago, and GT, which I learned is a nickname for Guyana's capital and largest city, Georgetown. As for the distinction between the two pudding styles, that's a matter for a another meal, on an emptier stomach.
Joy & Snook Restaurant and Bakery
762 Nostrand Ave. (at Sterling Pl.), Crown Heights, Brooklyn
718-221-8020
