I've mentioned Elmhurst's Sugar Club before, as the derivation point for both these seashell chips and an astoundingly high-quality complimentary tote bag (it even has a zipper!). Yet it’s worth noting that this neighborhood gathering place is about more than just packaged goods, especially on the last Sunday of the month, when they host a mini-festival of local merchants, the same sort who stock their shelves and refrigerators with homemade goods. This makes the place a little harder to navigate, with a stacked roster of table-bound vendors, tight aisles and scads of running children, but the chaos is worth it. Especially for a taste of chor muang, brightly-colored dumplings which, at least from my research, aren't available elsewhere in the city with any regularity. It's easy to see why; constructing these flower-shaped works of art seems like a real labor of love, especially if the traditional process of dying with pea shoots is being followed (food coloring may actually be used, for all I know). A relic of Thai royal cuisine, they were served here stuffed with pork and topped with a swine, soy and garlic based dressing, laced with bird’s eye chilies and swaddled in a splash of greenery. There's no seating in Sugar Club, so I ate these in Clement Clarke Moore park, a lively place that seems like a microcosm of the thriving Queens experiment, everyone enjoying their Sunday off, through games of mah-jongg, dominos, or just chilling on a bench.
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