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Ethnic Eating Adventures: Yun Nan Flavor Snack
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Apr 22, 2011
Modified Apr 22, 2011
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Jamie Feldmar
Published Apr 22, 2011
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Now that the weekend is almost here, and you can probably escape your desk for food, it's the perfect time to embark upon an ethnic eating adventure. Might we suggest hopping the R train to Sunset Park to check out Yun Nan Flavor Snack, one of the city's only purveyors of Yunnanese (the southern Chinese province bordering Vietnam) food? Don't expect much from the decor at this hole-in-the-wall, but do be prepared for some unique, strangely addictive noodles and dumplings for little more than the cost of the subway ride that got you there.
Go for the dumpling noodle soup ($4.25), a red-hot bowl of pork broth laced with chili oil and filled with thinly wrapped dumplings that look slightly like brains; or the spicy-sweet cold rice noodles ($4.25) topped with more chili, ground beef, peanuts and a small mountain of cilantro. The tiny shop seats no more than eight on exceedingly uncomfortable tiny stools; we'd recommend camping out in nearby Sunset Park instead. If you're not too deep into a food coma afterwards, there's plenty of Chinese and Vietnamese bakeries lining nearby 8th Avenue to satisfy your sweet tooth.
75 49th Street, Brooklyn; (718) 633-3090
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