If you like Chinese Food and haven't been to the Yunnan Shoppe, your making a MISTAKE!
Sunset Park, Yunnan Flavor Snack. Order the #13. Thank me Later
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re: diprey
I've been to Yunnan Flavor Snack probably two hundred times, especially with my daughter. No joke. I don't remember the numbers, though 13 might be Crispy Meat Sauce. Anyway, here's what you do:
- ignore the Rice Cake and Noodle dishes, they're packaged noodles.
- Hot and Sour Dumpling is astounding and unique almost like a very sour and spicy Tom Yum with delicate pork dumplings. The Won Ton soup is broth with similarly small dollops of pork inside delicate wrappers.
- Pick any of the Rice Noodle dishes on the left side of the menu board. Other than my fave, #6, the astounding cold noodles - a fantastic combination of sugar, spice, herbs, ground pork and peanuts over the noodles without broth - they're all soups:
Beef Stew is beef chunks.
Pork Stew is pork chunks.
Spicy Meat Sauce is the ground pork also in the cold noodle.
Crispy Meat Sauce (my daughter's favorite) has a few pork slices, unique pork cracklins and tender slices of pork intestine. Frankie should absolutely be thanked for starting this thread!The lovely couple who own and run this place seven days a week are always thrilled to see new customers. One caveat: they don't package the noodles separate for to go orders. The sort of less wide than Soba style noodles absorb the liquid, swell up and lose their toothesomeness (is that a word?). Plan on eating as soon as you're home!
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re: noisejoke
Your description of the hot & sour dumpling soup is exactly how I'd describe it. I alternate between that and rice noodles with either pork stew, spicy meat or crispy meat. I'd love to see a full-scale Yunnan restaurant open in the city (like Chicago's Spring World).
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re: noisejoke
bigjeff
Aug 5, 2009 06:57 PM
i need to hit that place again with your guide in hand; I had the crispy meat sauce and somehow, i was underwhelmed although for sure it was unique and different. maybe I had such high expectations for an unknown cuisine and waited so long to try it but it was nice, very nice, but not insane. i remember asking for more black vinegar since the thing i had felt underseasoned but i was expecting that sour flavor; will definitely give it another shot, the lady running the place was very nice.
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