White Bear Dan Dan Mien

The quintessential dive has cheap decor, a small menu, rock bottom prices, and grumpy service, but the best damned food you crave. For me, that place is White Bear, a Shanghainese  joint in Flushing, and that dish is  擔擔麵. Cousin introduced it to me many moons ago, and now when I go, I must have a plate. The other half feels this way about soup dumplings on Prince St. Good thing these two places are on the same street.