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This tiny shoe box of a place offers a commodious dining room upstairs for what is basically a fast-food take on Nepalese food. The real virtue is that the cuisine remains relatively unreconstructed-- full meals called samaybajis are served on cardboard school cafeteria trays, and include a selection of dried meats, toasted soybeans, and pickled root vegetables. Competing with these are Indian-leaning thalis - round metal trays with a big heap of basmati rice with curries, dals, and pickles arranged around the perimeter like moons orbiting an alien planet. Yelpers hate the momos (meat- or potato-stuffed steamed dumplings), but we thought they were pretty good.
As noted in my recent review of Phayul, a new Tibetan café in Jackson Heights, the blocks surrounding the 74th Street subway and bus station have dramatically filled with Himalayan businesses in the past decade. The area currently boasts 11... More »
There are now a half-dozen Nepalese cafés in Jackson Heights, most offering a hybrid of Himalayan cuisines. Named after its convivial hostess, Bhim's is a closet of a space with another closet upstairs for eating. And the wads of beaten rice, dried soybeans, and nuggets of spice-rubbed meat (reminding us that spices were among the earliest preservatives), feel as if you could put them into your backpack, grab your sherpa's hand, and head right up into the mountains. 74-10 37th Road,... More »
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