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New Restaurant Wants to Bring Fine Shanghai Cuisine to Forest Hills

 The Bund will open at 100-28 Queens Blvd. in September, the owners said.
The Bund will open at 100-28 Queens Blvd. in September, the owners said.
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QUEENS — A new Forest Hills restaurant offering authentic Shanghainese cuisine hopes to bring an upscale dining experience to the neighborhood while keeping its prices affordable, the owners said.

The Bund, named after a central Shanghai neighborhood located alongside Huangpu River, will open sometime in September at 100-28 Queens Blvd., near the 67th Avenue subway station, where Knish Nosh once was, said David Kong, one of owners, who founded the new restaurant with two partners.

Kong, who immigrated to New York with his parents in the early 1980s, said the restaurant will offer authentic Shanghainese food, which he said is not easy to find in New York.

He wrote on the restaurant’s website, "many Americans don't realize that Shanghainese cuisine is more than just soup dumplings."

It also features numerous chicken, fish, pork, shrimp and green vegetables dishes, which are often prepared with soy sauce and sugar or with sweet and sour sauce, according to Kong. Some are also pickled in wine, which gives them red color. 

Among the most popular Shanghainese dishes, which will be served at The Bund, are stir-fried bamboo shoots, crispy fish with sweet and sour sauce, chicken marinated in sweet wine and old fashioned Shanghainese pork stew, Kong said.

Kong's aunt, known as Madam Fu, founded three restaurants in Shanghai, including Fu 1088, one of the city's top eateries, he said. The executive chef at The Bund — Chef Lee — will come from one of those restaurants, according to Kong.

In terms of décor and food presentation The Bund, which will feature furniture and artworks from Shanghai, will be an upscale restaurant with affordable prices, Kong, who went to Forest Hills High School and has lived in the area for 25 years, said.

He wrote on the website that the owners picked Forest Hills because the neighborhood "offers the diversity and family values” that they were looking for. 

The menu for the restaurant is still being finalized but Kong said it will include a variety of dishes typical for the Southeast region of China. The chef will also use seasonal ingredients as often as possible, Kong said.