Zongzi 粽子 @ New York Food Court
133-35 Roosevelt Avenue
Flushing, NY 11354
I thought this food mall has closed. But it isn’t. So I’m pretty happy to find my faved beancurd vendor, they now charge $8 per order.
Also I got two kinds of wonton from Happy Lemon: their qicai wanton 荠菜餛飩 is good $7 per big order. The regular Shanghai wonton ($6) is not good at all.
A lady is making zongzi, the sticky rice dumplings warped in multiple bamboo leaves. It uses glutinous rice with fills – can be salty, like meats, dried sausages, or sweet, such as red bean paste, served during duanwu 端午 or dragon boat festival, commemorating poet and politician Qi Yuan 屈原 (340-278 BC ). Because it uses the lunar calendar – on the fifth day of the fifth month. So each year has different date. 2022 is on June 3rd. It’s convenient to consume, so you can find it year around now.
