Prung Asian Cuisine

On a quiet stretch of Skillman Avenue, where Woodside's low brick buildings run toward Sunnyside, Prung Asian Cuisine is the kind of small neighborhood kitchen that Queens does better than anywhere else in the city. It is a modest storefront with dine-in tables and a steady takeout trade, and the cooking leans Thai, with the bright, sweet-sour-hot balance that the borough's Thai community has made famous along this corridor. It is independent and woman-owned, the sort of place where the person taking your order is often the person cooking it. Come at lunch, when the light is good and the room is calm, and it feels like a private discovery a few minutes from the 7 train.

Prung was featured by the YouTuber New York Turk in 2026, in a short video of a quiet solo lunch here. The restaurant's own site highlights its curry puffs, a good place to start, and the rest of the menu covers the Thai and pan-Asian plates you would hope for at a neighborhood counter: noodles, curries, rice dishes and salads. Ask what the kitchen is proudest of that day rather than defaulting to the usual order, and tell them how much heat you want, since Thai kitchens in this part of Queens cook for people who mean it. Dine-in and takeout are both offered. It is an easy add-on to a walk through Woodside and Sunnyside, and portions travel well if you are heading home on the 7.