Sunshine Restaurant, Queens, NY
Sunshine Restaurant
69-15 Northern Blvd.
Woodside, Queens
(718) 639 – 6900
Cuisine Category (As listed in the Restaurant): Pakistani, Indian, and Bangladeshi
Sunshine Restaurant
Sunshine Restaurant
*7/19/09 Update: I returned here for the second time and I love the haleem and naan! It’s so savory and enjoyable to eat especially when the naan is fresh out of the oven! I highly recommend you guys to try!
Lesson of the day! As my friend points out, when a restaurant or store lists a few countries for the cuisine type, the country that is listed first is usually the primary group. So in this case, even though the restaurant lists 3 countries, it is owned by a Pakistani and the cuisine type is Pakistani. The reason why the other countries are listed is to attract customers of those nationalities. Yes, what an interesting tidbit!
The world of Jackson Heights is bristling with fast-paced people primarily from South Asia of all hours of the night. See in Chinatown, it’s gets dead around 11pm, but here supermarkets are shops are opened 24hrs! Restaurants are opened late night, but not all of them are. I have to admit, yes there are people walking around late night, but they are mostly men. I have yet to see any women besides my friend and I, so it made us feel a little uncomfortable. Now, there are halal carts on almost every block so you can be sure that you’ll never go hungry. After shopping for Indian spices and ingredients at the infamous Patel Brothers supermarket, my friend and I decided to look for a restaurant to settle down to eat. So we drove to Woodside, which isn’t too far away, to a restaurant that I have yet to explore.
Sunshine Restaurant Interior
Restaurant Interior of Sunshine Restaurant
Excited to what I have in store for my taste buds, my friend orders a bunch of dishes that you can see below!
The Meal
International Treats and Delights! Gulab Jamuns, Lor Mai Chi, and Chocolate Cake!
I can’t believe it’s been almost two weeks that I haven’t updated. Yes, I admit, I have been lazy when it comes to my posts. It would be so easy if I had a Blackberry with internet privileges! I do apologize for that, but at least I can make use of my camera and post better quality pictures!
Let me show you what I’ve come across over the course of these two weeks!
Firstly,
My friend decided to surprise me with an assortment of gulab jamuns to excite my taste palate! I have never have gulab jamuns before so this was definitely exciting to me. From what I was told, gulab jamuns are essentially Pakistani/Indian donuts. Now I just had to look it up to see what it is all about, and this is the recipe that I came across: Gulab Jamun. I am definitely going to make this since I now have the passion to make sweets! It doesn’t look that hard and it’s like making a donut! The problem with Gulab Jamuns, in my opinion is that you have to eat it when it’s fresh out of the fryer. When I got this from my friend, all the sugar has melted which coats the GJ with this syrupy goodness which I think is gross. Who likes a soggy donut? I sure as heck don’t. Perhaps I need to get my friend to buy it early in the morning when it’s freshly made so it can do just to my taste buds!
Assorted Gulab Jamuns
