Today I went with Michael to the third and last unexplored Chinatown in New York, in Flushing, Queens. Its at the end of the 7 metro line, and getting there you pass a New York hodgepodge landscape of graffiti and scrap yards and amazing views across the east river to Manhattan, and the world trade fair site which turned into a spaceship in Men in Black.
The Chinatown in Flushing is more of a Panasiantown: mix together a mass of Korean and Chinese restaurants and supermarkets full of tanks of live fish and evil-looking vegetables, throw in a Quaker building, a bit of the Smithsonian institute, a gray stone church and the obligatory McDonalds and Starbucks that every part of New York has and there you have it.
Great tempura!
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