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Cravings now including tea eggs in combos?
Posted: 2:54 pm, December 14th, 2009 in Midtown Eating
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Tea egg included? Nice. That's good to know if they didn't make a mistake.
I had pork chop over rice in Flushing on Saturday at a taiwanese place and they include a tea egg.
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66?
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Bingo. Is that like the only taiwanese-chinese place left in Flushing? I want to go back for their fried chicken but my taiwanese-american friend and his gf didn't seem too impressed by the food. I liked it alright. Sadly it was the fried pork chop itself that made the dish for me and not sauce or anything else. Oh well.
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Red Chopsticks is the new/big one, but I've never been and I don't know if they serve PCOR. 66 has been around since I was a kid and that's where *everyone* got PCOR after clubbing/drinking. I only started going to 66 after I quit eating pork, thus my never having had the dish until this year (I always ordered the beef with tomato over rice, which is markedly different from the Cantonese version; 66's sauce is thicker, and contains a scrambled egg broken into it, giving it the appearance of red egg drop soup, but thicker).
There's also Gu Shine but I have only had pork belly bun there, never had any rice dishes and can't attest to the tastiness of the place beyond the $2 pork belly bun (awesome).
And last but not least, there's a place that I believe is on Kissena close to the LIE that this Taiwanese guy I dated eons ago swore by as the best Taiwanese in all of NYC, but when we went, he ordered intestines that came not properly cleaned, which pretty much put me off that place, though he said that was the only time that ever happened.
Sorry for thread jacking.
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Cool. Thanks for the tips Yvo. I rarely eat taiwanese food and just stumbled upon it in Flushing this Saturday. My friends weren't impressed since they can eat taiwanese food at home more frequently but they saw me eyeing the pork chop. Good to know about the beef-tomato. My friend and I actually stopped his gf from ordering thinking it was too Cantonese or the you-could-make-it-home attitude. LOL. I've eaten at that Taiwanese place (Lin's?) in Elmhurst near the Walgreens with the parking lot and on the corner of that street. They were average. Yelp tells me there is PCOR at Red Chopsticks.
I stay away from intestines unless someone boldly orders them for the table. Especially since eating them last time and they stank!! Thorough cleaning def. didn't happen either.
And I hope you guys keep Cravings Truck on your side of town. I order their food like once a month now so it isn't even consistent...
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Whoa. awesome business decision. i don't think anyone really ordered them except me.
I'd have to wait until Thursday to confirm....
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Dean... and me...
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I ordered my fried chicken with a tea egg the last time I went on a why-the-heck-not day. Two dudes in front of me ordered their meals with tea eggs also so there are definitely people getting it.
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Street - oh, and beef w/tomato Cantonese-style, at least at High Pearl, which is probably the only place I ever ordered it, is slices of beef... at 66 it was ground beef. Both are good, but different. And at High Pearl, I think it was quartered up tomato chunks in the sauce... still yummy, but 66 was more just sauce. Man, this makes me want to order from both places, nostalgia :D
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Oh ok, then I prob wouldn't eat the one at 66 as I could make that at home - in fact, I ate that two Sundays ago. Haha. I prefer sliced beef anyway so a maybe for the High Pearl version. I've only eaten their food only twice so far so still average for now. I wouldn't mind eating their food more often but the chances of ordering at Penang or Singa's are usually higher. lol.
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I haven't been able to replicate the egg drop effect in the sauce at 66... I haven't tried very hard but still.
What do you eat at High Pearl? I've been going there since I was like 10, but when I go with my family we order a very specific set of dishes... and the one or two times I went with friends (who'd been going there with their families since they were young) we ordered mostly totally different dishes, which gave a different experience, still good though. -
I just had the sliced beef-egg with rice and the generic chicken w. brocolli the last time. Both take-out. I'll try their pan-fried noodles sometime. I think you mentioned that a while back.
As for the egg drop effect, I can't master that either since I'm a lazy cook but I know how I like to eat it. Just as long as it isn't too watery.
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Uh... you ordered take out Chinese at a real-deal Cantonese restaurant and are complaining because it wasn't amazing? And I thought *I* was retarded :P
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I just went to Cravings for the first time in a few weeks, ordered the chicken, and found a tea egg inside. Is this standard now, or did I get lucky?