Flushing, in northern Queens, has the largest and most authentic Chinese community in New York — larger and more diverse than Manhattan's Chinatown, with significant Taiwanese, Korean, Fujianese, and Shanghainese populations alongside Cantonese. The stretch of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue around the 7 train terminus is one of the best places to eat in the entire city, with a density of excellent, cheap regional Chinese restaurants found nowhere else in the Western Hemisphere.
The New World Mall on Main Street is an underground food hall with over 30 stalls offering hand-pulled noodles, soup dumplings, scallion pancakes, Taiwanese breakfast, and regional Chinese dishes that are hard to find even in Manhattan's Chinatown. Golden Shopping Mall on Kissena Boulevard is another famous spot. Come hungry, bring cash, don't expect English menus.
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, immediately south of downtown Flushing, hosted the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs and now holds the Unisphere, the Queens Museum, and the USTA tennis centre where the US Open is played each September. The 7 train connects both the neighbourhood and the park to Times Square in about 30 minutes.