LIC has the advantage that it is much closer to Manhattan than Flushing. Great to see so many Asian businesses opening up in the area. Thanks for sharing this video.
Actually I just leave LIC this year, mainly because the high rent. It rise so much and service of the each building is worse and worse. But the rent is higher and higher. I have to leave at the end.
@@marionwood67 For REAL sushi, i.e. not the type with rice rolled on the outside with exotic names, the Omakase course at Takesushi in Sunnyside is a gem. Some of their neta are directly imported from Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo 🍣
The owner of Xian famous food works at their LIC location so occasionally you can see him make the food. There also a chinese skewer food cart and another jian bing cart that is not featured in this video. There's also two hot pot places in LIC, one called Da Long Yi hot pot in Queens Plaza and Yin Traditional hot pot in Queens Plaza near 5 Points
Part 2 won't be complete without Takumen (Japanese-French), Hupo (traditional Sichuan), Chairman Sun (American-Chinese), Little Banchan (Korean) and MogMog (Japanese "deli plus" with the freshest meat and fish in the city) 👍🏼
Please try Jora (Peruvian), Safir (Turkish), and Go Nonna (Italian) next time you are around. Whenever we don’t have Asian food we rotate these three restaurants Also the food truck scene is insane. You got some good ones in this video but try Corgi Jianbing (weekend brunch only), Khao Man Gai chicken rice, and Apandi BBQ (at night) when you come back.
Long Island City itself is not actually “new,” guys. It’s been around for a long time. The Asian influx there is what’s new. Cool businesses, though. Thanks for shining a light on LIC.
The high income professional Asian population are currently all spread out through Long Island City, but the main concentration of the Asians are around Court Square and Queens Borough Plaza train stations due to large concentration of luxury buildings with many of them being new and a large community of them have settled into these luxury apartment buildings. So that section is like the main growing Chinatown of the neighborhood. The Asian population is overwhelmingly wealthy Mandarin speaking Chinese though with a limited wealthy Hong Kong Cantonese speakers. I have a feeling it will start looking like Flushing Queens soon, but a more wealthier upper class version and more Americanized Asian community. However, there is also a growing working class Asian population in a few housing projects in the neighborhood, which unfortunately there is a socioeconomic dichotomy disconnect between the very wealthy and working class Asian populations.
Problem is Flushing has a lot of mega developments like Flushing Commons, and Tangram. LIC being where all the rich asians park money is not good for these Flushing developments.
I would love to see LIC become another chinatown. It would be great for the area, but most importantly there would be the chinatown vans that go to that area. more accessible transportation within the area would be nice.
