Eating In Translation

Seasonal tip bucket

Seen at the Rosa's Empanadas truck
Queens Blvd. near the northwest corner with 63rd Dr., Rego Park, Queens
(one of several parking spots, served in rotation)
718-219-4409
www.Facebook.com/RosasEmpanadasFoodTruck

New York-area food events, October 17-24

Foods That Feel Like Home: Jewish Food Stories in the Sukkah
Thursday, October 17, 6:00-9:00
Commonpoint Queens' Central Queens (formerly known as the Central Queens Y), 6709 108th St. (67th Ave.-67th Rd.), Forest Hills, Queens
www.Eventbrite.com /e/foods-that-feel-like-home-jewish-food-stories-in-the-sukkah-tickets-72563482329
Free admission with online registration

Heritage Radio Network Happy Hour Live
Thursday, October 17, 6:00-8:00
Industry City, Camp David, 237 36th St. (Second-Third Aves.), Greenwood, Brooklyn
www.Eventbrite.com /e/hrn-happy-hour-live-featuring-gertie-and-hunky-dory-in-industry-city-tickets-75765080395
Free admission with online registration
One of a series: www.Eventbrite.com/o/heritage-radio-network-2589357506

A Taste of Barcelona: The History of Catalan Cooking and Eating
Friday, October 18, 6:30-???
Columbia University, Casa Hispanica, 612 West 116th St. (Broadway-Riverside Dr., room 201), Manhattan
www.Llull.cat/offices/newyork/actualitat_detall.cfm?id=37165
Free admission

Ganey Orly

Compared with our table's garlic-strewn chicken tabaka (above), plov (first photo below) was unlovely. But, for readers who might have been force-fed too many prettified pictures, an observation that bears repeating: Looks are often less important than long-cooked flavor. This Bukharian version of the rice dish was exceptional, and the beef was particularly tender. It's a dish that must be ordered in advance; good thing the kitchen had prepared enough for a second portion.

Also shown: lamb rib kebabs; a lamb fat kebab; manti, stuffed with lamb, beef, and onion, and steamed; a salad.

Ganey Orly
6537 99th St. (65th Rd.-66th Ave.), Rego Park, Queens
718-459-1638
www.GaneyOrly.com
Closed midafternoon Friday through Saturday evening

Sangza vendor

Also transliterated as sanzi (with a near-identical pronunciation), these fried dough twists are a common street food and teatime snack in China's Xinjiang province. Sangza have also migrated, with the Hui and Uyghur minorities, elsewhere in China and, lately, to Flushing's Chinatown.

I've come across two street vendors, in fact, who sell sangza a few blocks south of the Flushing-Main St. 7 train terminus. One, a man who sells long, doubled-over strands, sits on a stool beside a wire pushcart, the sort that often carries groceries or laundry instead. The other, a woman, makes do with a less elaborate setup. She perches on a large white tub that might once have held MSG, and bags of her two-bite dough twists — they're crunchy, and a little sweet — are framed in the upturned lid of a cardboard box. She seems grateful for business.

Sangza vendor
This afternoon, on Main St. near the southwest corner with Sanford Ave., Flushing, Queens

Samascott Orchards

Like its larger namesake, the hardy kiwi — a native of northern China, Korea, Siberia and possibly Japan — is the edible berry of a woody vine. Apart from the stem, however, this fuzzless, grape-size fruit can be eaten whole. Pretty much of Samascott's entire harvest appears in the third photo.

Also shown: a Cox's orange pippin and an Esopus Spitzenburg, two of the farm's less common apple cultivars.

Samascott Orchards
5 Sunset Ave., Kinderhook, New York
518-758-7224
www.Samascott.com
At the Columbia Greenmarket, Broadway between 114th and 116th Sts., Manhattan
www.GrowNYC.org/greenmarket/manhattan/columbia-su
Thursday and Sunday

Autumn Treasure, Bake, and Book Sale

For the price of a single corner of carrot cake, you wouldn't believe how many paperbacks I could have carried off, or the restraint I needed not to overload my backpack.

Autumn Treasure, Bake, and Book Sale
Church of the Resurrection, 8509 118th St. (85th-Hillside Aves.), Kew Gardens, Queens
www.Facebook.com/ResurrectionRichmondHill/photos/a.337422132955791/2725346254163355
(The autumn 2019 sale was held on October 12-13)

National Humanitarian Fundraising for Myanmar Food Fair

Shwe yin aye — in this typical bowl, a heap of agar jellies, sago and tapioca pearls, and sticky rice, waiting to be drenched in thinned, sweetened coconut milk — is invariably crowned with a sop of plain white bread.

St. John the Baptist Greek Food Festival

Accompaniment to a Greek quintet: ravani, semolina cake perfumed with orange-blossom water.

St. John the Baptist Greek Food Festival
Outside St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church of Gramercy, 143 East 17th St. (Third Ave.-Irving Pl.), Manhattan
www.Facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10220858833203811
(The 2019 festival was held on October 5)

New York-area food events, October 10-17

Alternative Food Movement in China
Thursday, October 10, noon-1:30
Columbia University, International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th St. (Amsterdam Ave.-Morningside Dr., room 918), Manhattan
http://WEAI.Columbia.edu/event/alternative-food-movement-in-china
Free admission

Heritage Radio Network Happy Hour Live
Thursday, October 10, 6:00-8:00
Sahadi's Industry City, 34 35th St. (Second-Third Aves.), Greenwood, Brooklyn
www.Eventbrite.com/e/hrn-happy-hour-live-at-sahadis-in-industry-city-tickets-75244483275
Free admission with online registration
One of a series: www.Eventbrite.com/o/heritage-radio-network-2589357506

Writing the Chinese American Restaurant
Thursday, October 10, 7:00-9:00
Museum of Food and Drink, 62 Bayard St. (Lorimer-Leonard Sts.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.MOFAD.org/events/lillianli
Tickets: $25
One in a series presented by MOFAD

New York City Wine and Food Festival
Thursday through Sunday, October 10-13, various times
Various locations
www.NYCWFF.org
See website for details

Cambodian Now

This serving of amok trey, steamed fish in a banana-leaf cradle, is a modest version of the Cambodian national dish sometimes likened to curry fish mousse. But here you can enjoy it in an outdoor setting, at a low night market price that leaves you latitude to visit many more of the 50-some food vendors. And, at the night market, no one looks twice if you lick your banana leaf clean.

Cambodian Now
www.Facebook.com/CambodianNow-425590594946619
At the Queens Night Market
Behind the New York Hall of Science, 47-01 111th St. (inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park), Queens
www.QueensNightMarket.com
Saturday evenings; in 2019, through October 26