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204-23 hillside ave
queens village, ny 11423
(between 204th & 205th streets)
gabyspizza.com

One of the best pizza you will ever eat in your life. The Sicilian slice is deLICious. The line can be long at times, but you never have to wait for too long. Relatively cheap. The slices are always hot and fresh. It’s pretty well-known — they have pictures of various actors/musicians coming here, throwing up their gang signs. One of the pictures I can remember is Ja Rule being there. Small and cozy. Trust me, you’ll be back for more after one slice.

So, remember this? Well, just to let you know, if you ever want pizza in Chinatown, you’re out of luck. Though, if you did want pizza in Chinatown, I’m not sure how I would handle that question. Anyway, the point is, Mosco Pizza has now become this:

Goodbye pizza, hello another dumpling place? We’ll soon discover and keep you posted.

After Tai Hong Lao(sp?) closed down (health inspection, sigh, a constant barrier to amazing food) on Mott, I couldn’t think of any place to eat dim sum. I hated Jing Fong (terrible service, watery food, expensive); Go Go Dimsum (too polished, much too expensive for poor college student me); Delight 28 (found a rat underneath the table many years ago, I’m still scarred. Although, the waiter from Tai Hong Lao works here and still remembers me =). Thus, I resorted to Mandarin Court (the lady at the counter has always been kind to me even when I was a young girl): it was relatively cheaper than the rest of the restaurants, and they were quick with your orders. The service was never great, and I still have a personal dislike towards one of the waiters.

Thus, when Kawai mentioned 9 Chatham Square, I had to check it out:

Located: By the intersection of Bayard St and Elizabeth St.

MOSCO PIZZA
105 MOSCO ST
11AM-10PM

After treating my family to lunch, Arson was telling me of a place in Chinatown that was actually a pizzeria. What? A pizzeria in Chinatown when Little Italy is merely on the other side of Canal? Would it actually taste like pizza? Well, Arson and I checked it out. It only opened three months ago. It’s right across the street from the other well-known dumpling place by Columbus Park. Rather small — it would be easy to miss it — with a quaint flag billowing in the wind with the words mosco pizza written on it.

Arson ordered the student special — $2.00 for a can of soda and a slice. The slice was fairly large and crunchy. The slice wasn’t truly anything special (it needed some more sauce), but it was edible. If you don’t want greasy, fried dumplings, then why not eat here? (It’s cheaper than Little Italy, I’ll tell you that much …) There’s a cute balcony with a view of, well, the side of the Transfiguration Church, but still, it’s nice decor. The place is small which makes it rather homely.

Considering that this is Chinatown, we say thumbs up for a pizzeria in Chinatown with a Chinese guy making this. If you feel like you just want a slice, and you can’t bring yourself to cross the wide dangerous street of Canal, then your best bet is here.

::edit::  5/08

i’ve been walking around there for the past few weeks, and it seems as though this pizzeria will be closed down indefinitely. Shame, no more pizza in Chinatown.

          -R.sin

5 EAST BROADWAY
NY, NY 10038
10AM-11PM

To be fairly honest, I rarely venture to the other side of Bowery by Chatham Square, but as I was walking back to my place after eating with the family, I saw a rather interesting restaurant. First, the discrepency in that area was obvious: clean with an Asian minimalist look. Second, 24-HOUR DIMSUM??? (Well, for as long as they were open, actually.) After my doubletake, I thought to myself, this must be my potential heaven. This is what God would say to me: Behold my child, eat all the dimsum you possibly can and not get fat. (Although that does sound more like gluttony, doesn’t it…) Third, it seemed to cater mostly to foreigners.

So, one night I went with two of my friends at around 930-10pm, excited and rambling about the food I was going to order to stuff my face (I heard “fatass” thrown around a couple of times). We entered the place, and it was designed very simply; white walls adorned with mirrors and splashes of festive red throughout the place. Albeit small, it was rather homely. It was different from the other exuberant dimsum places where you have to yell for the person sitting next to you to hear what you’re saying. We sit, and there is a small piece of paper with a pencil next to it. Exciting, is it not? Revolutionizing the way dimsum is ordered! Instead of old women pushing the carts, yelling out what they’re coming around with, now all you need to know is how to read what you want to eat, and then: check it off, waiter takes it, food comes. Bing, bang, boom. Ah, the potential of education in China. Ah, China — efficiency at whatever cost, including food. The only problem I had, I shared with my father when we first saw this concept in beautiful, hot, shop-glorious Shenzhen: while my father couldn’t read the menu because he had contacts on and the characters were too small, I just can’t read at all, and I have no idea what the Chinese dishes are called in English.

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