Spy C Cuisine — Restaurant in New York

Very well executed regional chinese food. The schezwan cucumber salad is among the best we've tasted with lots of complex flavors and crispy roasted chilis, and more. here's the write up we posted on our facebook page the three Our favorite of this meal was the pickled sour string beans with crispy minced pork and bean curd glass noodles. Unreal and exciting combination of tastes, textures and spices We ordered everything at a level 3 spice...perfect for hot enough yet not mouth numbing . Pig trotters should not be missed...they put pork ribs to shame... Tofu sheets with pork belly and sauteed Chinese cucumber was our least favorite yet still quite nice.

Have been wanting to try Spy C Cuisine-since reading many posts from a local @Forest Hills NYC fb group. @The Three NYC Everything Bagels Buzz Across America

These "three everything bagels", hubby, son and I, love authentic ethnic cuisines and are not afraid of a fairly good level of spice.

Don't get me wrong, we also like a good rendition of general chow chicken with pork fried rice every once in a while but that's chinese-american not Chinese cuisine in my mind. Also as many of you know we are chefs and have been in or grown up in the food business for many years, so our palates are kind of picky.

Anyway, our son B, whose first food ever was chocolate mousse and who has been enjoying dishes like clams in black sauce and south Asian oyster omelets since early childhood, is visiting from Northern California and we finally ventured over to Spy C Cuisine on Austin Street in Forest Hills, for lunch yesterday...lunch specials seemed pedestrian, so we ordered from the regular menu and just followed our gut ...it helped to look at the photos on the wall too, reminiscent of the anglicized lists in authentic flushing and downtown chinatown hole in the walls but a bit more refined and stylized .

The decor and presentation is upscale and almost Japanese...the restaurant was fairly quiet at 1:30 on a Wednesday weekday although we saw a good number of deliveries going out the door...in general Austin St doesn't strike me as a hot spot for luncheon dining.

We ordered everything at a level 3 spice which was spicy enough but not head blowing hot. We might advance to level 4 spice next time. The Szechwan cucumber salad as noted by many recommendations is divine with lots of complex flavors and textures. The crispy slices of dried smoky chilis are not super spicy and add a lovely dimension...we had to stop them from taking the sauce that was left in the bottom of the bowl away, so we could enjoy every last swipe.

Pig Feet Trotters OMG expensive but great rendition of crunchy, glazed, spicy and fatty with succulent bits of meat. We sucked every bone dry!

Sour string beans with minced pork and glass like bean curd noodles ...the tiny thin pickled string beans and perfectly cooked tasty minced pork with the great texture of the bean curd glass noodles was one of our favorites. It actually was slightly enhanced with the left over sauce from the cucumber. The tastes and textures were spot on as was the deft hand at seasoning and spicing. I am already craving this dish again.

Our least favorite but still good and probably the most mild (with one chili pepper indicated on menu) was sautéed layered tofu with pork belly and Chinese celery... the tofu was thick squares and the texture was fabulous...there wasn't much pork belly and the dish was quite mild in comparison but if we had started with this dish, perhaps the more delicate flavors wouldn't have been masked by the other dishes more vibrant ones?

Lunch was expensive ...around $25 a person with tax and tip, but worth every finger and chopstick licking bite! Perhaps we could have feed one more person and each eaten a bit less, but we finished it all and were stuffed but happy.

Still enjoyable and we devoured all of it and had to take a walk home the long way to walk off our full and happy bellies.

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What truly sets Spy C Cuisine apart is their unparalleled commitment to personalized service, exemplified by the remarkable waiter, Vincent. A linguistic virtuoso, Vincent converses effortlessly in my mother tongue, Chinese, establishing an instant connection that transcends words. He possesses an innate understanding of my palate, introducing me to an off-menu delicacy that has become my perennial favorite: Chinese Scrambled Eggs With Tomato.

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Oh my goodness. Ordered the beef with broccoli lunch special. My sister ordered shrimp with broccoli. We were waiting for our food, and suddenly heard a clamming of the throat. You know it's like when you have a bad cold and try to bring up the flem up into your throat. And then the really disgusting spitting out of the flem. It was the chef in the kitchen which was parallel to our table and yes separated by a wall. But, you could hear everything. Hopefully, the spitting out of the flem was into the garbage and not the food. I immediately called over the waiter and explained that I had to leave.

Highway robbery from a neighborhood business. Ordered the pan fried pork dumplings and was disappointed because the pork tasted old and the dumplings weren't served hot. At 10 dollars for 6 dumplings, it's highway robbery. Now, the dumplings are served on a black rectangular dish with a bit of dark soy sauce in a tiny part of the dish. So now, I'm in a dark restaurant eating warm dumplings served in a black dish with black soy sauce hidden within the dish. Why not have soy sauce brought to the table in a saucer or better yet be on the table? Why are the empty tables being cleaned while people are ordering and eating at dinner time?

The chicken with mixed vegetables was served warm and without any sauce to mix in with the rice. The vegetables consisted of two tiny pieces of broccoli, two pieces of canned corn, some carrots and onions and what appeared to be some cabbage. Now the chicken was served warm while the vegetables were served cold. Finally, upon paying I saw that I was charged 4 dollars for the...