Here's the question I'm asked at cocktail parties just about as much as "what's your favorite restaurant?":
Where can we eat in (Manhattan's) Chinatown without waiting in line? Well, serious eaters, I have an answer for you:
Famous Sichuan. It's a place that
Robyn Lee's been going to since last November, and every time she goes she says there's never anybody in the place.
I worry about good, moderately priced restaurants going out of business (we need every last one of them), so I went for the
ridiculously cheap $5.50 lunch special both days I was wandering around Chinatown during my two-day tour of jury duty.
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I have yet to come across anyone who has eaten at or heard of Famous Sichuan in Chinatown—hell, I only found it by searching for "Sichuan" in Menupages after getting an intense craving for tingling hot Chinese food. The...
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