Restaurants & Bars
Chinese Hot Pot Chain To Open Flushing Restaurant
Xiao Long Kan Hot Pot is opening a restaurant next summer in Flushing's massive new development known as Tangram, according to reports.
FLUSHING, QUEENS — Popular Chinese hot pot chain Xiao Long Kan Hot Pot is reportedly coming to Flushing next summer.
Xiao Long Kan Hot Pot is opening a 5,000-square-foot restaurant in the massive new residential and retail complex replacing the bygone Flushing Mall, according to Eater New York.
This will be the chain's first restaurant in North America.
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The Chengdu-based restaurant chain uses "tongue-numbing Sichuan pepper" for its soup recipe and such accompaniments as beef tripe, pork meatballs, spicy beef and fried rice cakes with brown sugar, Eater reported.
The complex, called Tangram after the traditional Chinese puzzle, will feature a 24,000-square-foot food hall and beer garden, movie theaters, restaurants, retail stores, two luxury residential towers and a commercial tower.
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