This isn’t exactly the Asian edition of our annual “Eat Cheap” issue, but maybe it should be. We are living, in case you hadn’t noticed, in a sesame-oiled, kombu-dashi’d, shrimp-pasted epoch of great grub, and nowhere is that fact more apparent than in the realm of budget dining. If you’re not already waiting for a table at Mission Chinese Food or Pok Pok Ny, two of the year’s hottest (and, yes, hottest) openings, you might be en route to Manhattanville for a savory bowl of noodle soup at Jin Ramen, or out to Flushing for cumin-lamb kebabs at Xi’an Famous Foods offshoot Biáng!
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