Singh’s Roti Shop and Bar
A community of Guyanese immigrants have settled in South Richmond Hill, Queens and established several restaurants, bars, and roti shops serving their cuisine, which represents a mixture of Indian, African, and Chinese elements, all wonderfully transformed from the originals.
A splendid example is Singh’s Roti Shop and Bar, a large, well-lit, and colorful café that offers the wrapped flatbread meals called rotis, with a longer list of main ingredient choices than anywhere else in town. These run to goat, chicken, tripe, saltfish, duck, and a dozen other possibilities. Roti fillings also incorporate a potato and garbanzo curry, tamarind and “pepper” (chile) sauces, and an optional extra vegetable such as pumpkin or pureed greens. Other menu highlights: the blood sausage called black pudding, “shark bake” beach sandwiches, and doubles — a pair of small pooris flopped over a chick pea curry. Chinese lo mein and fried rice also available, in addition to Latin style roast pork. 13118 Liberty Ave., between 132nd and 131 streets, South Richmond Hill, Queens
