{"id":14970,"date":"2021-08-26T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2021-08-26T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T19:33:30","slug":"the-mystery-of-fu-yuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=14970","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Fu Yuan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIn today\u2019s installment of \u201cWhat Else Happened in Flushing While I Was Away?\u201d there\u2019s Fu Yuan at 135-43 Roosevelt Ave. It feels like that strip of Roosevelt Ave just off Main St has been playing musical chairs with a host of storefront snackish restaurant comings and goings for a while now. They don\u2019t disappoint and I wish them all well.<\/p>\n

Fu Yuan offers steamed rice noodle rolls (cheung fun,<\/em> \u8178\u7c89) which appear to be enjoying tremendous popularity in NYC\u2019s Chinatowns of late, as well as congee, some soups and a few other \u201cside orders\u201d. In addition to their traditional rice noodle rolls, they had a couple with the word \u201ccrispy\u201d prepended which, of course, I opted for.<\/p>\n

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\nThis one is their Crispy Roast Pork Rice Noodle Roll; the soft rice noodle is wrapped around crispy rice which is wrapped round the filling (shrimp is available as well as roast pork). Since I\u2019m always a sucker for crispy, it totally worked for me.<\/p>\n

But the real intrigue is the menu mystery that is \u201cStone Mill Noodle Roll\u201d. I\u2019ve returned more than once and each time I inquire, I\u2019m told they don\u2019t have it. Do they ever <\/em>have it? Did <\/em>they ever have it? That\u2019s the enigma and I don\u2019t have the Cantonese language skills to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n

So, have any of you Chinatown roamers been luckier than I in solving this mystery?
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\nAnd a reminder: New York City boasts at least six Chinatowns and perhaps a few more depending upon your definition of what constitutes a Chinatown; just pick one and go! Now, more than ever, please SUPPORT CHINATOWN!<\/em>
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