New York’s Staten Island. With rattling dim sum trucks and sizzling bins of dumplings fragrant with star anise, the Year of the Snake made its appearance in East Pacific last Wednesday. With a sushi chef constantly moving and hanging Peking ducks on either side, Sunny Ng, the restaurant’s happy manager, scuttled across the lively room filled with chattering customers.
Dumplings are created from fluffy fortune cakes. This picture shows steaming pouches of sticky rice wrapped in pork, peanuts, scallions, and other caramelized veggies that are stuffed with five different spices. Black bean sauce is applied to chicken feet at the one-o’clock position. At three o’clock, a mixture of wood ear mushrooms, pork, and shrimp is used to crimp shut mai. (Pamela Silvestri/Staten Island Advance) Silvestri
Staten Island’s Lunar New Year * Year of the Snake * | The Dish
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