Year of the Takeout Day 160: 66 Lu's Seafood Sausage Fest (With Nuts!)

By Victoria Bekiempis Mon., Jun. 11 2012 at 12:10 AM

Categories: Victoria Bekiempis, Year of the Takeout

Sweet Rice Sausage from Lu's Seafood 66 (38-18 Prince Street, Flushing, 718-321-0904)

Lu's $7.95 sweet rice sausage is proof that all foods should be stuffed into a casing.

Here, a thin-yet-chewy skin gives shape to a quasi-cylindrical mash of sticky rice, peanuts, garlic.

The flavor is similar to that of Congee Village's baked rice with chinese sausage, but tastes as if that dish were tucked into a sugary, meaty wrapper -- just masterful.

A shout-out must also be given to the shredded beef with chili($10.95), which abounds with julienned peppers and is one of the few truly hot dishes we've come across in our adventures. The loofa vegetable with baby shrimp, at $11.95, exemplifies the rare occasion when a cook serves a white wine-based garlic gravy that doesn't seem like "lobster sauce."

Apparently, this assortment got the approval of other diners.

A man and his wife, sitting at a nearby table, yelled to a buddy and me: "You guys know how to order!"

"Why?" we asked.

"Most people," he bemoaned, "get noodle soup."

(He and his wife, who were from Taiwan, were themselves eating a thick curry chicken stew).

We didn't really know what was wrong with noodle soup per se, but were happy to have done something well. Besides, who wouldn't accept a totally confusing compliment?

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