Flushing doesn’t need another restaurant to prove it’s a food destination—but it just got one anyway. Nong Geng Ji, a Hunan cuisine group that built its name in China, will open its first New York ...

The word “Hunan” has appeared in the names of Chinese restaurants in the United States, and in the names of dishes on their menus, for decades, without many Americans knowing what it meant exactly.

I’ve often puzzled over how restaurants I visit — from Venezuelan to Turkish — are so often filled not with locals, but tourists from Venezuela and Turkey. When I travel, the last thing in the world I ...