Taiwanese Restaurant Gulp and Speakeasy 929 Have Opened in Long Island City | Eater NY

"At the storefront at 42-45 27th Street I found a no-frills, fluorescent-lit Taiwanese takeout counter called Gulp that supplies all the food to the cocktail bar in the back and currently offers only takeout while waiting for the gas to be turned on. Co-owned by William Guo and Haoran Chen with Jeff Liu spearheading the project, Gulp is running a limited menu of Taiwanese bar fare: popcorn chicken is served as part of a fried platter alongside enoki mushrooms and tofu skin; a braised platter seasons beef tendon and short ribs with star anise, white cardamom, licorice root, and dried mandarin peels; and the playful sausage-in-a-sausage is a sticky rice sausage split down its length to cradle a larger pork sausage. The spot was originally conceived as a breakfast place and will eventually offer fan tuan (sticky rice roll), dan bing (crepe-wrapped omelette), and lu rou fan (braised pork over rice), and for now it also serves beef noodle soup on a limited dinner menu. Gulp and the connected bar are open Tue–Thu and Sun 5 p.m.–12 a.m., and Fri–Sat 5 p.m.–1 a.m." - Caroline Shin