Eating In Translation

New York-area food events, November 28-December 5

Note: With the publication of this abbrieviated events roundup, Eating In Translation is departing for a long holiday weekend. Enjoy your Thanksgiving.

Kachin (Burmese) Traditional Food Fair
Saturday, November 30, 11:30-5:00
Parish house of St. James Episcopal Church, 8407 Broadway (St. James-Corona Aves.), Elmhurst, Queens
www.Facebook.com/events/448390215801737
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2018/11/kachin-traditional-food-fair.html
Free admission

Winter's Eve at Lincoln Square
Monday, December 2, 5:30-8:30
Various locations along Broadway between 58th and 66th Sts., Manhattan
www.WintersEve.nyc/food-tastings
Free admission; a portion of proceeds from food sales benefits the New York Cares Coat Drive

Wah Fung No. 1 Fast Food

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

Pierozek

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

Chaikhana Sem Sorak

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

Hotel-room entertainment, Hanoi ...

... 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.

Win Son Bakery

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

American Coffee Shop

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

New York-area food events, November 21-28

Feast Yr Ears live featuring Especially Puglia
Thursday, November 21, 6:00-8:00
Industry City, The Landing Annex, 220 36th St. (Second-Third Aves.), Greenwood, Brooklyn
www.Eventbrite.com/e/feast-yr-ears-live-featuring-especially-puglia-at-industry-city-tickets-75794223563
Free admission with online registration

Tastes Like Home
Thursday, November 21, 6:30-8:30
Prince Tea House, 134 Bowery (Broome-Grand Sts.), Manhattan
www.Eventbrite.com/e/pineapple-ny-presents-tastes-like-home-tickets-80575472407
Tickets: $25, or you and a friend for $30

Asian Creative Collective Food Talk
Thursday, November 21, 6:30-8:30
WeWork, 511 West 25th St. (Tenth-Eleventh Aves.), Manhattan
www.Eventbrite.com/e/asian-creative-collective-food-talk-tickets-81781383319
Tickets: general admission, $20; students with ID, $10

Our Harlem Live with Marcus Samuelsson
Thursday, November 21, 7:00-9:00
Museum of Food and Drink, 62 Bayard St. (Lorimer-Leonard Sts.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.MOFAD.org/events/ourharlem
Tickets: $35
One in a series presented by MOFAD

Norwegian Seamen's Church Christmas Fair
Thursday and Friday, November 21-22, noon-8:00; Saturday, noon-6:00; Sunday, 11:00-3:00
Norwegian Seamen's Church, 317 East 52nd St. (First-Second Aves.), Manhattan
www.SjomannsKirken.no/kirke/new-york/kalender/julemarked-i-sjoemannskirken-2019
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2017/11/norwegian-seama.html
Free admission

Balimaya

"We are a mix," said the manager, about the rotating West African cooks at this South Bronx restaurant. (She herself is from Madagascar, down east.) Shown: Malian peanut butter "soup" with cassava leaf and beef, to be spooned over rice. This is the "small."

H/T Jared Cohee, Eat the World NYC, with whom I had lamb head

Balimaya
2535 Third Ave. (East 137th-East 138th Sts.), Mott Haven, Bronx
718-401-1122

E Dim Sum

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