FOREST HILLS, QUEENS
Asian Bowl
A modest Queens Boulevard kitchen that leads with Burmese cooking — tea leaf salad and mohinga.
The name undersells it. Behind a plain Queens Boulevard storefront, this small, takeout-minded kitchen leads with Burmese cooking — still rare in New York — with Thai, Chinese and Japanese dishes filling out the back of the menu.
Order from the Burmese side. Tea leaf salad, laphet thoke, is the star: fermented tea leaves tossed with crunchy beans and split peas, fried garlic, peanuts, dried shrimp, tomato, cabbage and lime. Mohinga, the fish-and-noodle soup that many Burmese eat for breakfast, and a coconut noodle soup are the bowls to know.
Editor’s tip
Order the tea leaf salad and mohinga, and ignore the Americanized dishes at the back of the menu.
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Editorial draft — core details last reviewed October 13, 2026. Confirm practical details with the official site before you go.