This was one of the first things we did on our first trip to New York, and I would recommend that everybody do the same. If immigration is to key to NYC's history, then here is a place where you can experience first-hand that ongoing process which must make the city - and particularly Queens - one of the most culturally-rich places on the planet. Jeff will give you accounts of Jackson Heights's various communities and their interactions as you work your way round, but the real discovery is in the eating. We ate Tibetan momos, Nepali roti, quesadillas with "corn truffle", an incredibly rich pandebono, a weird viscous Peruvian drink called Emoliente, superb Grandma's pizza, meat and rice from the halal truck that won Jeff's 2010 'Halalathon' competition, and so on. As testament to how open-ended the trip felt, Jeff also took us to a place he'd never visited before, an Ecuadorian bakery where we tried empanada and quimbolito. Of course, you could just wander round Queens yourself and gamble, but you'd have to be well-connected to know that, for instance, the best momos in the neighbourhood are hidden away in the back of a defunct phone shop. For all Jeff's knowledge and affability, this felt like really good value.

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