Kings Kitchen, Flushing, NY

Recently, a new Chinese restaurant opened up on Main Street in downtown Flushing.  Kings Kitchen, located at 40-12 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11354, is a sparkling new restaurant located a few doors down from McDonald’s and across the street from the New World Mall.  That street looks a little drab, and Kings Kitchen is a step in the right direction to sprucing it up.

It was late in the evening, and the restaurant was about to close.  I was told that during the day, and especially at dinner time, the restaurant is packed.  It’s got a beautiful interior, and slippery floors (perhaps I wasn’t wearing the right shoes, but I would caution you as you walk through it).  In the front is a take-out area.  One of the front windows is adorned by the requisite Peking Ducks, which glisten from the street lamps.

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Housemade Soup Dumplings – I was a little confused because they weren’t served with a spoon or bowl, and no tongs to lift them out of the steamer. I asked for the soup and bowl, which were brought, but not the tongs.  The soup was quite hot, but after letting it cool for a bit, it was most delicious, and the rest of the dumpling was divine.

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Special Combon Rice Claypot with:

• Eel
• Preserved Pork
• Preserved Duck

This was a first for me.  The clay pot is HOT.  I mean, really hot.  Like sizzling hot!  🔥🔥🔥 The contents are to be stirred up.  When water is added, it sizzles, and I guess completes the cooking.  It surprised me just how good this dish (the food, not the pot) was.  The preserved duck(?) tasted like bacon.  I want to come back and try some of the other clay pot dishes.

Would I bring the boys back for a full-on Chinese Quest?  Let’s see what they say after reading this.

Humbly submitted for your consumption,

—Mee Magnum  (“Chop!  Chop!”)

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