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|  | Spicy Mina | |  | “Itinerant chef Mina Begum wows Woodside with homey Bangladeshi food.” —nymag | | Cuisine: Bangladeshi, Indian |
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|  | |  |   | | For dinner with a friend after a long hiatus, I suggested going to Spicy Mina in Woodside, Queens, as I had read about the restaurant many times on the Outer Boroughs board of Chowhound and had been wanting to check it out. Located on an isolated street corner next to a highway (and a quiet subway entrance), Spicy Mina deserves the praise it has been getting all over the boards. Both the chicken... Read More | | |  |   | | Enjoy some quiet dinner conversation in a homey setting.Quiet and homey, on the evening I visited, because our table of six were the only customers, if you discounted two teenage girls who settl... Read More | | |  |   | | It's squirreled away on a side street, across from a gas station, which hints at the sadly low level of foot traffic.Nearby Spicy Mina is also on the awkward side of the BQE, but at least it's c... Read More | | |  |   | | Yes, it's true, I popped back in to New York for a few days earlier this week. In between reunions with friends and the trip to Flushing with Dave chronicled below, I found time to stop in at the Burmese Cafe written up in the Voice just after I left last year. I was really there because I wanted ... Read More | | |  |   | | Bhut jolokias, soaking innocently In this month's issue of Gourmet, Karen Coates goes all the way to Nagaland, in northeast India, to taste the bhut jolokia, which was discovered in 2006 to be the hottest chile in the world. But you don't have to go around the world to try bhut jolokia—goo... Read More | | |  |
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