Dollar Hits - New York
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Filipino street food skewers, pancit, and refreshing juices
Filipino street food skewers, pancit, and refreshing juices
"We’re always happy to hit Dollar Hits in Woodside, especially on a weekend night. During the day, you can serve yourself a complete lunch of staples like pancit and lechon at the counter, but you should really come after 4pm when they replace the chaffers with endless aluminum pans of BBQ skewers—stuff like tempura eggs, pork skin, and chicken butt. The skewers are $1.50 each and if you can resist trying every single one, you can get a whole meal’s worth of meat for under $15. Later in the night, it gets loud, crowded, and hot—but the chaos makes for a really good time right until closing at 11pm. " - neha talreja, nikko duren
"This double storefront with one side devoted to carryout, the other to sit-down dining, is an LA import. In addition to steam-table dishes of a classic sort, and a pig head or two, it offers charcoal grilled brochettes for one dollar that include pig intestines, fried wontons, chicken hearts, and hot dogs." - Robert Sietsema, Eater Staff
"Dollar Hits is a Filipino street food shop that became popular enough in LA to be featured in an episode of Netflix’s series Street Food: USA. They’ve since opened a location in Queens, among the many thriving Filipino businesses in Woodside. During the day, you can serve yourself a complete lunch of staples like pancit and lechon at the counter, but you should really come after 4pm when they replace the chaffers with endless aluminum pans of BBQ skewers. The skewers—which range from tempura eggs and chicken feet to pork skin and chicken butt—are $1.50 each, and if you can resist trying every one, you can get a whole meal’s worth of meat for under $15. Some of our favorites are the the fish tofu, crispy kikiam with a shameless amount of shrimp meat, and fiery red pork intestines full of melty fat. Pile your selections into an aluminum tray, then hand everything over to the kitchen so they can give your skewers a nice char on the grill. Full disclosure: In LA, part of the fun of Dollar Hits is that you take the skewers outside to a small grill to reheat yourself, but after having some crowd control issues doing the same at this location, they took the operation inside. This place is already pretty fun (especially since it’s open until 11pm), but if they bring the grill option back, it’ll be an especially good time. Food Rundown Longanisa Fatty, salty, and slightly sweet, this is our favorite of the skewers. Once you pierce the crispy charred skin, you'll be delighted by the amount of juice that pops out. Pork Intestines / Pork Isaw We can confidently say this skewer has no flaws. You get three pieces of rolled up buttery fat. Chicken Butt / Pwet ng Manok These fragrant chunks of meat are chewy in the good way and taste a bit like liver. They're especially good with the two dipping sauces available on the side. Chicken BBQ Both the BBQ chicken and pork are straightforward, well-seasoned charred sticks of BBQ. No complaints. Kwek Kwek Each of these skewers comes with two tempura quail eggs. Covered in a slightly sweet batter, they're super cute and taste like mini egg corndogs. Pork Blood / Betamax The pork blood is like a smoky BBQ meatloaf that tastes even better dipped in their vinegar-based sauce and the other sweet and spicy sauce. Hot Dog Filipino hot dogs are generally this red because of food coloring, and the color differentiates them from other, less flavorful hot dogs. Don't skip these for seemingly more interesting portions of meat. The hot dog is one of the best skewers. Lumpia These lumpia arrive in a pile of grease after being reheated, but they still taste good, and you'll still eat all of them. Vegetable Ukoy Think of this deep-fried fritter as the side of potatoes that goes with your meat, except it has some vegetables mixed in to give it some extra sweet flavors. Fish Ball The fish balls are pretty standard, and there are other skewers we'd chose first. But this is a perfectly fine choice if you're in the mood for it. Turon End your meal with one (or more) of Dollar Hits' sweet selections, such as this sweet and sticky banana spring roll." - Neha Talreja
"The three sisters behind LA’s Filipino street food sensation, Dollar Hits, are transporting their wildly popular skewers cross-country to a new location at 39-4 64th Street, at 39th Avenue, in Woodside on Saturday, August 20. The skewers are the stuff of local legend: In 2012, owner Elvira Chan decided to sell the sticks for a dollar apiece on a six-foot table by the side of her grocery store. They soon drew lines so long that city officials put an end to it. Chan hauled the skewers into a food truck, and months later, into a newly leased storefront next door in the strip mall along with her sisters, Nelita Deguia and Josephine Estoesta. The NYC restaurant marks the third Dollar Hits outpost, and the first on the East Coast. It joins a landscape of grilled meats on sticks that, while diverse, have rarely starred a restaurant focused on Filipino skewers, limited instead to pop-ups like Boy Isaw, a Filipino BBQ stall at the Hong Kong Food Court, and restaurants with skewers taking up a small portion of their menus like Woodside’s Ihawan or Gugu Room in the Lower East Side." - Caroline Shin
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