Golden Mall 黄金商场
Food court · Flushing
41-28 Main St, Flushing, NY 11354
Highlights
Authentic Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese food stalls, popular for snacks
Authentic Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese food stalls, popular for snacks
"Debuted in 1990 and credited with helping shape how New Yorkers eat Chinese food, the original Flushing location served as the launch pad for chains like Xi’an Famous Foods and the Dashan Restaurant Group, behind the acclaimed Szechuan Mountain House and CheLi. After a five-year, $2 million overhaul — an effort to keep pace with intense competition in a rapidly changing neighborhood — the Flushing location reopened in July 2023, hosting a mix of familiar names and modern newcomers. When it opened, food icons like the late Anthony Bourdain and Jonathan Gold celebrated the food hall for its sheer number of homestyle offerings at affordable prices, a destination at the time unlike any other food court in New York." - Melissa McCart
"A food hall originally from Flushing, set to open in the Financial District." - Nadia Chaudhury
"A Flushing mall dating to the 1990s that was renovated and is slated to open another location in Manhattan." - Melissa McCart
"At Flushing’s resurrected Golden Mall I snack on a variety of hawker-style treats—brochettes, Macao-style custard pies—and enjoy the lively street-market atmosphere as I stroll down Main Street." - Robert Sietsema
"When I heard the Golden Mall had been reborn following a $2 million renovation, I dutifully rode the 7 train to its terminus, having worried the basement food court at 41-28 Main Street (near 41st Road) would be a pale, franchise-ridden shadow of its former self; instead the layout felt eerily the same as I zigzagged past 11 stalls, and the reborn space retained the basement's legacy as the spot that, since its 1990 opening and heyday in the early aughts (when Chowhound and food celebrities like Jonathan Gold, Jamie Oliver, Anthony Bourdain, and Eric Ripert raved about it), introduced New Yorkers to a wide array of regional Chinese cuisines — from Sichuan offal counters to Tianjin sausages and soy-braised trotters, Lanzhou hand-pulled noodles, Hunan hot pots, and even the original Xi’an Famous Foods location; most stalls have small dining areas and deliver to them (there is no common dining room), some accept cards while others are cash-only, and a Manhattan sibling is reportedly in the works." - Robert Sietsema
