{"id":9440,"date":"2019-08-01T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T22:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=9440"},"modified":"2019-08-01T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T00:52:38","slug":"the-bund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=9440","title":{"rendered":"The Bund"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Named for the waterfront tourist destination in Shanghai that features modern skyscrapers alongside historical architecture, The Bund at 100-30 Queens Blvd in Forest Hills features Shanghainese cuisine alongside customary Chinese fare. <\/p>\n

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\nMy dining buddy had his heart set on hock, specifically The Bund Special Crispy Pork Hock \u2013 crackling skin, yielding meat, everything you\u2019d want from a hock plus a gratuitous toss of broccoli florets on the side, presumably a colorful nod to healthiness. (Nice try.)<\/p>\n

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\nThis cold appetizer is one of my favorite Shanghainese dishes. Called \u201cThe Bund Special Spongy Gluten with Woodear Mushroom & Peanuts\u201d on the menu (a mouthful, both literally and figuratively), I know it as Kao Fu. Unpacking the description: gluten is made from wheat (you might have sympathy for seitan, a wheat gluten product) \u2013 if you purchase it straight in a Chinese market, it looks a bit like whole wheat bread; spongy, an apt adjective because this form soaks up juices as if it were one; wood ear mushrooms (aka cloud ear, black fungus, tree ear fungus, and a raft of other names) don\u2019t have much flavor but they bring contrasting texture to this dish. If there were any peanuts to be found, I didn\u2019t catch them; still, I liked it well enough.
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