I've been on more trips to Target and Trader Joe's than any other place. My date of traveling is nearing and it's about time I solidify my packing list. Trying to minimize the items to bring can prove difficult when the things you want to bring with you increases. On my trips to Target, I tagged along with Lils to know Elmhurst a little better. It's another Chinatown there with more stuff for us to explore.
*Edit: I wrote this post roughly two-three months ago.
Neighborhood-wise, it's more residential. The proximity to the Queens Center Mall acts as a strategic way of attracting nearby residents to shop, but other than that, there's not much to look into. We walk further into the Chinatown to see what it can offer. There is the New Golden Sparkling Supermarket that's closest to the bus stop. Despite its convenient location, the market is smaller and has less to offer in terms of selections of groceries. There's another market located further from the bus stops along Broadway where you have to walk that is closer to a cluster of small restaurants and eateries called US Supermarket. It's larger and has more variety.
As for the eateries I just mentioned, they will be located on either side of Broadway. We went to Joju on one of the occasions. It's a Korea inspired Vietnamese sandwich place. I can't say I was too impressed. They decided to turn off A/C that day I walked in making the place stuffy so Lils and I opted to eat outside where there's a breeze. We both got the Classic ($4.99), a drink of some sort ($4 more or less), and shared an order of kimchi fries ($4.99). The Classic is a Vietnamese sandwich containing a carrot and radish pickle, cilantro, mayonnaise, cucumber, Vietnamese ham, headcheese and liver pate. For $4.99, it's filling. The kimchi fries was as loaded in the box as we wanted, but they go well with the sandwiches, spicy, acidic, and crispy. My drink was a milk tea with coffee jelly. Coffee jelly is a nice addition, but what would be nicer would have been less sugar in my tea. I wished my drink was a whole lot less sweeter. Lils said that one of the problems with Joju is the inconsistencies with their food. Sometimes it would be spectacular, sometimes it would be just "meh".
On another occasion, we visited ICook for lunch, an AYCE hot pot place. The Elmhurst location is the newer one and we were in time for a summer discount. What would have been $22 per person became $17 each. I tried their original chicken pot which had a really fragrant chicken stock. For vegetables, we stuck mainly with watercress and enoki mushrooms which they gave us generously. As for meat, we tried the pork belly, two types of beef, and lamb. I don't remember what other miscellaneous items we ordered, but overall we were very satisfied.
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