PrintTop Chinatown Bites, Part 1
Soup dumplings from Goodies
I have to say that I've been disappointed by my last few forays to Chinatown, both for dim sum and regular meals. That said, when I started to think about where I would send friends in Chinatown, I came up with a surprisingly long list:
New Chow Chao
Address: 111 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 (b/n Canal and Hester; map)
Phone: 212-226-2590
Best wonton soup I've ever tasted and one of the great bargains of NY eating: $3.00 for a quart, a meal for two.
Chanoodle
Address: 79 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10013 (b/n Bayard and Canal; map)
Phone: 212-349-1495
Lots of really fine cheap dishes, including great fried rice, fried fish and chicken, and a pork and clams dish that is scary good.
Big Wong
Address: 67 Mott Street, New York, NY 10013 (b/n Bayard and Canal; map)
Phone: 212-964-0540
Moist, meaty spare ribs that end up on my shirt as I wander around Chinatown.
Goodies
Address: 1 East Broadway, New York, NY 10038 (near Chatham Square; map)
Phone: 212-577-2922
Extraordinary soup dumplings, might be better than Joe's.
Great NY Noodletown
Address: 28 1/2 Bowery, New York, NY 10013 (near Bayard; map)
Phone: 212-349-0923
Salt-baked fish, wonton soup, and Chinese barbecue worth the wait (if it's not too long).
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4 Comments:
I hope you'll come to San Francisco and check out our Chinatown. We could use some more up-to-date reviews.
cookingwit at 12:20PM on 09/21/06
For the best baked roast pork bun, go to Chatham Restaurant at 9 Chatham Sq. Here's the interior photo of the bun:
Tina_Queen at 6:11PM on 09/21/06
For the* best baked roast pork bun* go to Chatham Restaurant, located at 9 Chatham Sq. Their pork buns are really tasty. It's filled with copious amounts of pork and onions, and it has a salty-peppery taste from the sauce. It's not filled with excess pork fat and gelatinous sauce that is really unappealing to eat, that I find from the buns in Flushing, Queens. This place is the real deal and I'm the second generation who's eating these buns from the same spot.
Here's a few photos of the place and the bun itself:
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Tina_Queen at 6:28PM on 09/21/06
Thanks for the photos, Tina. Although I found the dim sum at Chatham to be hit or miss, I found that I liked the place much better when I sat up at the counter. Great atmosphere. Your photos make me want to go back and try the pork buns.
I would like to throw Congee Village into the pot here - have yet to try anything there that I didn't like. Fantastic casseroles and chicken dishes. Also, the Hong Kong fare from XO Kitchen on Hester, especially the meatball congee, enough to feed two, and any of their cheese-topped selections.
Polecat at 10:36PM on 09/21/06