{"id":14475,"date":"2021-07-09T13:41:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=14475"},"modified":"2021-07-09T13:41:41","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:41:41","slug":"panshi-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=14475","title":{"rendered":"Panshi Restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, one of life\u2019s pleasures is wandering into a steamtable-equipped ethnic restaurant with compliant eager eaters in tow and pointing at a succession of trays filled with often unidentifiable goodies until we decide that we\u2019ve probably ordered enough to stuff everyone to the gills. (I know. I\u2019m easy.) In this case, it was Panshi Restaurant at 168-37\/39 Hillside Ave in Jamaica, Queens. I had been craving Bangladeshi food, their specialty, and what came to the table was potent and satisfying.<\/p>\n

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\nIn addition to rice, dal, roti, and salad, we selected four vegetable dishes, pumpkin, borboti (long green beans), palak vaji (spinach), and alu vaji (fried shredded potato).<\/p>\n

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\nWe opted for two kinds of bhortha (you may see bharta or similar spellings), potato (aloo) and eggplant (baingan). Bhorta is an intensely flavored vegetable mash, usually redolent of mustard oil, that’s used as a condiment: check out the two bowls at the top of this photo.<\/p>\n

And speaking of gills, if you go to a Bangladeshi restaurant, you do want to order fish. (Why? Examine the unobstructed access to both fresh and salt water on a map<\/a>. From Banglapedia: \u201cIn Bangladesh there are 401 species of marine fishes and 251 species of inland fishes in fresh water and brackish water.\u201d Not bad for a country the size of New York State.) The three bowls at the bottom of the photo are shrimp and vegetables, a dish she called \u201csmall fish\u201d and another dish she called \u201csmall fish\u201d. The check read \u201cshoal fish\u201d, but from photos on the interwebs, those are considerably larger than these. Still, very tasty.<\/p>\n

Panshi also touts a catering service and a menu including Chinese and Pan-Asian fare, but stick with the dishes from Bangladesh if you go.
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