Dumpling Galaxy: Hurry!

Okay. Drop everything and get on the 7 train to Flushing Queens. At the last stop, walk up Main Street to 41-26, the Golden Shopping Mall. Go to the food court downstairs. Because Anthony Bourdain has done a show about it, there will be tourists, people like you who don’t know Chinese. Though everything there is wonderful, locate the excellent women at Dumpling Galaxy, who design your dumplings on the spot, then serve them steaming. (We had pork and chives — after one bite, we all began calling for a second order — and lamb and spinach.) The tables offer plastic bowls of chili oil and bottles of vinegar. Don’t linger — someone is waiting for your seat.

From there walk up Roosevelt and make a right on Union for a bowl of beef broth

DunHuang Lan Zhou Beef Noodle

Rose House

So you’ve taken the 7 train to Flushing Queens to the last stop, walked Main Street, eaten some of New York’s best. Eaten a little more. It might be time to find a spot where no one is panting for your seat. A relaxed overpriced cup of tea perhaps?

At Rose House, international Tea and Art Salon – – there are outpost in Beijing London and Taipei – – you can see a very special version of the English Tea. Yes, there will be tourists, people like you who don’t know Chinese. But they will rarely be white New Yorkers. The Assam is terrific, the green tea Mille feuille fab, and the scones — well — okay.

The Englishwoman with us glanced around the room—the chintz-y furniture, the tea cups painted with roses, the red velvet booths, the low hung paintings of flowers (more roses), the triple-tiered Tea servers—and said, I believe they call this cultural appropriation.

And then some.  No Brit could design this red velvet rose chair: 

Rose House is in Queens Crossing Mall
136-17 39th Avenue, Queens, NY 11354