Tag: Canton Gourmet

Photo Friday
by
by
12/12/14 11:33am

Behold, the Happiest Dungeness Crab Ever!

by
No Comments
DUNGENESS CRAB

Photo: John X. Choe

PLEASE NOTE THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED

When I was a kid my father and brothers used to catch blue claw crabs. Eating them was a fun, but messy process. These days I don’t have much patience for that process, but I do enjoy N.Y. Noodletown’s  salt baked soft shell crabs, and I love munching on the pickled crab in a Thai papaya salad. Believe it or not after more than 30 years of eating Chinese food, I had yet to eat a Dungeness—or donkey as my father used to say—crab until last week. Fresh seafood is a staple of Cantonese cuisine, so what better place to try the giant crustacean than Flushing’s Canton Gourmet. (more…)

, , , , , , , , ,
Dish O' The Day
by
by
08/25/14 11:00am

Canton Gourmet’s ‘Famous’ Chicken is Aptly Named

by
No Comments
CANTONCHICKEN

This Chinese fried chicken deserves to be described as famous.

PLEASE NOTE THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED

As much as I go on about a certain  secret Taiwanese fried chicken, I do have another favorite Chinese fried chicken. It comes from Canton Gourmet. A poster sized come-on for this dish first encouraged me to try it. “Famous garlic aromatic crispy chicken,” read the English name. The poster depicting an entire golden fried bird showered with fried garlic, shallots, and scallion had me at “crispy chicken.” Throw in those three not so little words “famous garlic aromatic,” and I was sold.

Whoever’s on the fry station at Canton Gourmet knows what they’re doing and does it well. The salty skin is shatteringly crisp, yet the meat remains juicy. It was a great pleasure to crunch my way—bones and all—through an entire $11.95 platter. This top flight Chinese fried chicken is entirely deserving of its lofty moniker. I resolve to eat it more often.

Canton Gourmet, 38-08 Prince St, Queens, 718-886-9288

, , , , ,