<p>This low-lit Flushing restaurant specializes in classic Sichuan cooking, from tea-smoked duck to pork belly in garlic sauce and whole fish braised with chile. Come with a group if you can: the large private rooms have lazy Susans built for covering the table with enough dishes to make ordering restraint impossible.</p>

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<p>More than 30 flavors compete at this beloved Corona corner shop, from familiar fruit ices to peanut butter, rum raisin and licorice. They won’t mix flavors, but at these prices you can simply order another cup. Start wherever you like; finishing with the namesake lemon rarely disappoints.</p>

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<p>Hand-pressed tortillas hit the griddle throughout the week at this casual Mexican restaurant, accompanying tacos, soups and homey guisados. Weekends bring the real prize: carnitas and Guerrero-style barbacoa, slow-cooked until tender and best tucked into a warm tortilla. Go early, before either sells out.</p>

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<p>Inside Flushing’s New York Food Court, Liang Pi Wang specializes in its namesake liang pi, chewy “cold skin” noodles tossed to order with cucumber, soy sauce, black vinegar, sesame oil and chile oil. The whole thing comes together in minutes. For something hot and handheld, grab a freshly griddled jian bing.</p>

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<p>Park Side keeps the red-sauce Italian-American restaurant gloriously alive. Settle in for scungilli and calamari, chicken piccata, veal parm and plenty of marinara and fra diavolo in a dining room where nobody appears to be in a hurry. Reservations are strongly recommended.</p>

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<p>Also known as Mama’s of Corona, this Italian-American institution makes the kind of sandwich that requires both hands and possibly a partner. The Italian special piles cold cuts, fresh mozzarella, peppers, mushrooms, oil and vinegar onto a hero. Save room for cannoli, pignoli cookies or sfogliatelle next door at Our Backyard Cafe.</p>

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<p>Next door to Leo’s Latticini, Our Backyard Cafe is the place to linger over coffee and something sweet after a sandwich. The bakery case runs from cannoli and fruit tarts to lobster tails and tiramisu, with indoor seating and a backyard that makes an especially pleasant stop in warm weather.</p>

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<p>Come to Maxi’s for noodle soup, but don’t overlook what the menu modestly calls the “toppings.” Hand-formed wontons, dumplings and fish balls arrive bobbing in pork-bone broth alongside springy noodles, while sweet-and-spicy pork, fried fish skin and beef stew offer plenty of reasons for repeat visits.</p>

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<p>The Pancake specializes in Guizhou-style savory pancakes with chewy dough and spice-forward fillings, bringing a lesser-known regional Chinese street food tradition to Queens through a Dominican-Chinese family-run shop.</p>

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<p>Just west of Flushing Meadows, Leticias serves Ecuadorian cooking with plenty of heft. Look for encebollado, a bracing fish-and-cassava stew, the pork-packed “tres chanchitos,” or chaulafan, Ecuador’s take on fried rice and a delicious reminder of the country’s long history of Chinese migration.</p>

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