Asian Feastival: Celebrating the Culinary Riches of Queens, New York

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From potato-stuffed Indian Dosas to char grilled Thai satay, Filipino lechon to Himalayan yak momos, the dishes served up at the first Asian Feastival certainly showed that Queens offers the best and most diverse Asian food in the five boroughs. Twenty restaurants representing twelve national cuisines grilled meats, hand-rolled rice cakes and stuffed pork soup dumplings for the hungry crowd, which thankfully didn’t have to wait long for their bites—a problem that has plagued other local food events.
Event Producer Wendy Chan cast her net wide: she created the festival to help those who can’t tell bok choy from gai lan to become more comfortable using Asian ingredients, and to encourage those already cooking and eating Asian food to delve further into regional specialties.
The fit attendees began their day with a 22-mile culinary biking tour led by Momofuku alum Youngsun Lee, while the “still-hungry” types joined Edible Queens’ Joe DiStefano post-festival to explore Flushing’s savory bits on foot. In between, there were cooking demos, panels—Eddie Huang (Xiao Ye) and Akira Back (Bellagio’s Yellowtail) dished on young Asian-American chefs, Salon’s Francis Lam and cookbook author Grace Young gave the lowdown on Chinese cooking techniques—and a whole lot of eating.