Out of many pączki, one pączek (Pon-chek), a filled Polish doughnut in this instance flavored by plum, during an appearance at LIC Flea & Food.
Sweet Malina Bakery
1635 Great Neck Rd., Copiague, New York
631-841-3465
Closed Monday
Also at 1907-05 Great Neck Rd.
631-789-1945
Closed Sunday and Monday
www.SweetMalinaBakery.com
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"That's a shame, I like a bit of Parkin with a cup of tea." Owing to that comment on my Flickr photostream — by Neil C., whose profile photo features a classic British red pillar post box — I've gleaned that parkin is an oatmeal gingerbread, dense with treacle, that's especially popular in northern England. In return, might Neil enjoy a primer on "alternate side of the street"?
No parkin
Long Island City, Queens
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Although this Korean restaurant is better known for tabletop BBQ, chilled bowls of naeng myun (often transliterated naengmyeon) are more ideally suited to summer weather. The two shown here, one ready to mix with spicy sauce, the other partially immersed in chilled beef broth, feature sliced beef, vegetables, hardboiled egg, and noodles prepared from arrowroot starch. These are Han Joo's most basic naeng myun; our party didn't make a pass at the version topped with sliced raw skate. Also shown: the customary bevy of banchan.
Han Joo
4106 149th Pl. (41st-Barclay Aves.), Murray Hill, Queens
718-359-6888
http://NY.KoreaPortal.com/english/yp/18423-New-York-Han-Joo-Restaurant
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Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Brooklyn
Continues Thursday through Sunday, July 11-21, various evening and weekend hours
In the streets surrounding Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 275 North 8th St. (Havemeyer St.-Meeker Ave.), Williamsburg, Brooklyn
www.OLMCfeast.com
Free admission
Go Africa Harlem Street Festival
Saturday, July 13, 10:00-6:00
West 116th St. between Seventh and Eighth Aves., Manhattan
www.GoAfricaHarlem.org
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2015/08/go-africa-harlem-street-festival.html
Free admission
Wagyu x Japan Food Town
Each covers one segment of an otherwise cookie-cutter street festival
Saturday, July 13, 10:00-6:00
Bleecker St. between Christopher and West 10th Sts., Manhattan
Sunday, July 14, 10:00-6:00
Broadway between 47th and 48th Sts., Manhattan
www.Facebook.com/events/2309587615794699
Free admission to both
Bastille Day celebrations
Jersey City, Saturday, July 13, 11:00-6:00
On the street outside The French American Academy, 209 3rd St. (Erie-Grove Sts.)
www.Eventbrite.com/e/bastille-day-in-jersey-city-2019-tickets-60546851262
Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, Sunday, July 14, 10:00-8:00
Vicinity of Bar Tabac, Smith St. between Pacific and Bergen Sts.
www.BarTabacNY.com/bastille-day
Midtown Manhattan, Sunday, July 14, noon-5:00
60th St. between Fifth and Lexington Aves.
www.FIAF.org/event/2019-07-14-bastille-day
Free admission to all
Happy Family Night Market
Saturday, July 13, noon-11:00
Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St. (at Pitt St.), Manhattan
www.HappyFamilyMkt.com
Tickets: $15 and up
Barbados Festival Day
Saturday, July 13, noon-7:00
Monroe Cohen Park (aka Canarsie Cricket Grounds), Seaview Ave. at East 108th St., Canarsie, Brooklyn
www.Facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10217043990084171&set=a.10203778910385469
Previously: www.EatingInTranslation.com/2018/07/barbados-festival-day.html
Free admission
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A hotdog window had been here before, and the signs at Foxface emphasized "sandwiches," but at first I didn't gather that my "moules frites" would be served between bread. So it was a surprise, as well as a pleasure, to see the care that went into its making — particularly the addition of the potato chips, which were not crumbled with disdain but carefully layered, intact.
The moules frites, alas, seems already to have come and gone like many items on the Foxface menu, all of them subject to the whim and inspiration of an ownership that "dreams of sandwiches."
Foxface
Sandwich window, with seating inside William Barnacle Tavern, 80 St. Mark's Pl. (First-Second Aves.), Manhattan
www.Instagram.com/foxface_nyc
Closed Monday and Tuesday
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Sometimes even a talented graphic artist falls back on the printed word: In the tiny space allotted by the menu board, it would have been very difficult to render iconographic chickpeas. My dining buddy and I ordered two veggie combos, one over rice and beans, the other, equally substantial, inside a roti. Alongside them (but not shown here): Solo cream soda, in the traditional aviator-themed bottle, was true to the heritage of the owners' first home, Trinidad.
Suzy's Roti Parlour
907 Church Ave. (at East 10th St.), Prospect Park South, Brooklyn
718-282-8190
www.SuzysRoti.com
Closed Sunday
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Enchiladas are corn tortillas imbued with a chile pepper sauce. Enfrijoladas (en-Free-ho-Lah-dahs) instead employ a sauce based on frijoles, that is, beans. For this trio, black beans were the foundation of the filling, too — enfrijoladas elevate them from side dish to featured attraction.
Also shown, but not ventured, since this was but the first stop of a long afternoon excursion: manzanas con chamoy, apples coated in a salty-sour-spicy-sweet sauce and, most likely, extra sugar, too.
Carnaval Mixteco en Staten Island
Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terr., Livingston, Staten Island
www.Facebook.com/events/430025437772770
(The 2019 festival was held on May 26)
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Light bites after an impromptu church tour: homemade baklava and basbousa.
Coptic Egyptian Spring Festival
St. Mary & St. Antonios Coptic Orthodox Church, 6254 60th Pl. (Metropolitan Ave.-Bleecker St.), Ridgewood, Queens
www.Facebook.com/events/457711448309183
(The 2019 festival was held on June 14-16)
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Festivals organized by churches, mosques, and temples often feature food prepared by members of their congregations. Many wonderful dishes rarely surface except at such events; they don't appear on local restaurant menus because the recipes are too labor-intensive or too poorly codified, or because ingredients are too hard to source.
Even at festivals in public settings, such as city streets, it's good practice to seek out food stalls affiliated with houses of worship. The sărmăluțe (Sar-mah-Loo-tay) above were prepared by the ladies of St. Dumitru Orthodox Church, on the Upper West Side. At a glance they seemed fresher than the stuffed cabbage rolls at neighboring stalls; the pork-and-rice filling was loosely knit and nicely seasoned, notably with onion and thyme. The jaunty savarinas below were unique to the table of St. Andrew Orthodox Church of Jamaica, Queens; these Romanian rum babas sold out posthaste.
Also shown below: the makings of kürtös kalács (Coor-tozh Cah-latch), for which a strip of sweet dough is wound around a spindle, baked, then further sweetened by being rolled in the likes of cinnamon, sugar, and crushed walnut. The result is a hollow cylinder meant to be broken off, bite by bite, with the fingers (mine were too busy to take a final photo). A decade ago, this anonymous festival stall was a curiosity, and perhaps an inspiration. Nowadays, branded "chimney cakes" are not uncommon at New York's outdoor markets.
Romania Day
Broadway near Bowling Green, Manhattan
www.RomaniaBroadway.com
(The 2019 festival was held on May 18)
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By way of salchicha guisada, pilaf, pakoras, and abelskiver, Honduras, Kazakhstan, India, and Denmark all showed their colors at this annual school festival. So did a host of others: Some two dozen families prepared home cooking from nearly as many culinary traditions. (See more good food on Flickr.) At a New York City school, that's the sort of diversity we should expect.
Lower Eats Side
P.S. 110 (The Florence Nightingale School), 285 Delancey St. (playground entrance at Lewis St.), Manhattan
www.PS110.org/lower-eats-side
(The 2019 festival was held on June 15)
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