Spicy Mina
64-23 Broadway Woodside, Queens
718-205-2340
www.spicymina.com
"Hallowed by New York's foodie underground, itinerant chef Mina Azad sparked a stampede to Queens with her first restaurant in Sunnyside. After a stint at a place in the East Village, she has resurfaced at this spartan shop on a quiet stretch in Woodside. Yet though the location of her kitchen keeps shifting, her carefully prepared Bangladeshi and Indian dishes haven't changed a bit. That means you can still order her fabulous haleem, a porridgelike stew of crushed lentils and tender chunks of lamb redolent of ginger and clove. Or shrimp dopeaja, superfresh crustaceans coated with a sweet, fiery paste of onions and ginger and dotted with green chiles. Aside from the cooking, the whole operation is amateurish, but that's just another reason to love this place: It feels less like a restaurant than it does someone's home."
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