![]() ![]() Posted in Restaurants | Comments Off on King 5 Noodle House ![]() Tags: Flushing, Noodles, Peking Duck, Soup, Soup Dumplings, Soy Milk, Taiwanese, Tofu The next time I have a craving for Taiwanese food, I’ll happily hop on the train and return to King 5 Noodle House. So even though we find the subway ride to Flushing to be a bit long, it’s still shorter than a 17 hour plane ride to Taiwan. It’s been a few years since we were last there, and we don’t know the next time we can make a trip back. Eating all these things again really brought back fond memories for me of being in Taiwan. Most of the foods are savory, not sweet, and it’s very carb heavy, which always makes me a happy girl. ![]() I’m not much of a breakfast person in general, preferring to order lunch foods whenever we go out for brunch, but Taiwanese breakfast is different. The Taiwanese breakfast foods at King 5 Noodle House didn’t disappoint. We were really full by the end of our meal and probably didn’t need to order the noodle soup or the tofu, but like I said, I wanted to indulge all of my cravings. The sesame pancake was flaky, and I like the combination of the savory carbs with the sweet milk. The cruller at King 5 Noodle House was light and crispy, and despite its name, it wasn’t the least bit greasy. Then you dip the “sandwich” into soy milk (I prefer sweet soy milk, rather than salty), and eat. Yes, you’re basically stuffing a carb inside of a carb. Basically what you do is split open the sesame pancake lengthwise and stuff the cruller inside. We started off with a big bowl of soy milk and an order of fried cruller (yeoh tiao, or “oil stick”) with a Taiwanese sesame pancake. There were just so many things I wanted to eat, and I knew we wouldn’t be able to finish it all, but I also knew that it will probably be months again before we come back, so I indulged all of my cravings. We kind of went a bit crazy with our ordering. It was early afternoon though, and I was worried they had run out of soy milk by then, but we were in luck and everything was still available. When we got to the restaurant, we only had to wait a few minutes for a table to open up. I enjoyed eating it while we walked over to the restaurant, and it definitely whet my appetite. It’s not the best peking duck, but for $1, it’s not bad. The meat was a bit chewy and the skin wasn’t so crispy, but there were lots of scallions in the bun and plenty of hoisin sauce. We showed a bit of restraint and ordered just one bun each. Our first stop in Flushing, before King 5 Noodle House, was the peking duck window at Corner 28 where they sell peking duck buns for $1. So one nice Saturday afternoon, after Josh and I went to the gym, we hopped on the train and made the journey out. I was craving Taiwanese breakfast foods and read on a few different blogs that the place to go was King 5 Noodle House in Flushing. The best part about Flushing, for me at least, is the access to some of my favorite Taiwanese treats. But to be honest, the trip really isn’t that bad, and we really should try to do it more often. It’s one thing to walk 15-20 blocks for a meal, it’s another thing to take a subway ride for almost and hour and have to switch trains along the way as well. But the fact of the matter is, Josh and I are lazy. Ever since our fun Flushing food run, way back in July, I’ve been itching to make a return trip. ![]()
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