At the end of the A train, South Richmond Hill’s Little Punjab comes into focus through chole bhatura and lassi at Punjabi Dhaba, langar at a Sikh gurdwara, and a neighborhood market stocked with the flavors of South Asia.

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On the streets of Chongqing, no menus are needed. From that southwestern Chinese city near Sichuan province, a beribboned snapshot – which hangs beside the table where we speak with Tingting Li, the chef and a partner of 200 Gram Noodles, in Flushing, Queens – helps tell the story. The snapshot depicts an outdoor noodle stall, where customers at short plastic tables are perched upon even shorter and surely precarious plastic stools. Knees bend toward chins. In this setting, customers simply call to the noodle-maker from their seats; a standard order is “200 grams.”