Trinciti is open seven days a week from 6am-8pm. If you do the math, this means that the counter-service spot in South Ozone Park is open for more hours of the week than it’s closed. And if you take things a step further, it means that 98 hours of the week, you can get your hands on the best Trinidadian food this city has to offer: pillowy aloo pie, doubles laden with bouncy shrimp and soft, thick channa, or infant-sized goat roti. This information does not go unnoticed. There’s always a line inside (and sometimes outside too), and all those double-parked cars in front belong to people who are waiting for their food. Trinciti is an expertly-oiled machine though, with a line controlled so effectively by stanchions that it would make security at nearby JFK jealous. It moves swiftly, but you’ll still have a few moments to mull over your order. And, for someone to insist that you must get the shrimp doubles, you really must. (They’re not wrong.) An army of women behind the counter grab cafeteria trays, ask you what you want, and then get to work, stopping only to inquire if you’d like the oxtail doubles spicy, or to alert someone in the back kitchen that the chicken curry is running low among the sea of buffet trays. About 20 minutes after you've entered, you can expect to exit: currant roll already missing a bite clutched in one hand, and a five pound bag of skillfully swaddled, tamarind-sauce-covered proteins in the other. All that’s left to do is locate the nearest flat surface, and go to town.