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what are your favorite places to eat in chinatown nyc?

Nha Trang for Vietnamese

69 Bayard (located at, er, 69 Bayard) is crazy inexpensive, very fast, and the *perfect* ultra-late night place to shamble your drunk ass to after hours of serious heavyweight drinking. Order anything over rice or chow fun (especially chow fun) and tears will come to your eyes. It's not exactly great food, but it's exactly what you need at 4am.

Can't miss the place, there's one dollar bills taped to all the walls.

New Green Bo for XLB

Ajisen for Chinese-style Japanese-style Chinese soup

ajisen ramen steve shasta?!

yeah! it's the lone US outpost (i think?)

i'm being told there's one in SF now haha

chinese-style japanese-style chinese soup is otm. there's a lot over here in HK and they are all pretty awful. luckily there are a few legit ramen shops here. but I suppose it's not bad at the right price point

This place sounds good - http://www.refinery29.com/meat-lover-the-most-horrifying-nyc-subletting-story-you-ve-ever-heard

great NY noodletown on the bowery is one of my fave restaurants in all of new york, cheap (maybe not for chinatown, but for eating out in the city), delicious, fast, rarely any way. get anything with duck in it, but especially the duck w/ flowering chives and the duck e-foo noodle

also theres a dim sum place on elizabeth i think? that everyone is always like this is the best dim sum place? i think its called oriental garden? its ok

should be "rarely any wait"

New Green Bo for XLB

― taco al pastorius (Steve Shasta), Thursday, March 17, 2011 2:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this place has good scallion pancakes too

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I don't have any resto recommendations but flushing is worth a visit

Looking for updated recs for places to eat in Chinatown for my lil 19 year old coworker going to NYC for the first time. She is ecstatic!!!

Tasty hand pulled. If she com after jan http://maxisnoodle.com/ is opening a joint on mott aiui

for anyone curious about Scik Mouthy’s link upthread, it’s now https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/15786

off the top of my head as a regular enough nyc tourist, uncle lou is really nice cantonese, great ny noodletown mentioned upthread is still there but not been in a while, was always great back in the day. taiwan pork chop house is very cheap and very good, was there in august. was also at dim sum palace (i went to east village one but think there's one in chinatown) and really enjoyed that.

thai diner is newer and a bit more upscale or expensive but thought it was v good also. not chinese or chinatown but nearby i also like saigon social for vietnamese food.

Kam Hing coffee shop on Baxter St for desserts, esp if she's gonna be here for Lunar New Year

Of the old classics don't skip Congee Village (Chinatown-adjacent, technically LES) but many of these places (Green Bo etc) are tourist traps imho

Is Bahn Mi Saigon Bakery on Grand St still good? I loved it years ago.

if this is her first time i wouldn't worry too much, everything is gonna taste good.

but if she wants something a little less "cheap eats" and more of a contemporary vibe then i'd say potluck club or phoenix palace (owned by the same people iirc)

if she's on tiktok she'll probably have heard of mei lai wah and wah fung. former can be worth it, latter definitely not, both have long lives pretty much 24/7 now

finally mission chinese is back, they are in 'pop-up' mode but keep on extending the end date afaict so who knows when it'll end

If it’s food she wants, put her on a subway out to Flushing. A trip in itself

xp banh mi saigon is the uh, least-good banh mi in chinatown imo... i think people like it because of the mystique of 'the sandwich shop that's in the back of a jewelry store', this notion of chinatown being full of literally hidden speakeasy gems, but it's all sandwich shop and no jewelry store really

banh mi co ut on elizabeth has banh mi that approaches viet food in other cities with a more vibrant viet population... so successful they opened a full restaurant on chrystie, kitchen co ut which is also good

saigon on broome is also better than banh mi saigon imo although i think they came close to closing down for good earlier this year so idk if they're still around

Thanks for those recommendations on bahn mi.

I rarely get into Manhattan Chinatown when Flushing Chinatown is so much closer for me. It's been close to 10 years at this point.

If I win the lottery, I am going to buy myself a pied-a-terre in Flushing.

I have never been to Flushing, but after 4 years without easy access to good Chinese food, I am willing to make the leap.

quincie, you are closer to the SGV than Flushing, iirc, which is reputed to have the best Chinese food in the country.

True, but the drive suuuuucks. Given that I’ll have won the lottery and can therefore fly private (airport 10 minutes away), getting to Flushing would be a much more pleasant journey.

Flushing is the place to be, it's true. even if you only have 2 days in NYC spend one of them in Central Park/Met museum and the other in Flushing imo

quincie, here is hoping you win :)

Ilxor flushing food crawl when

Would travel for that

Ilxor flushing spa crawl when

thanks y'all!! i will pass these recommendations on to her <3

My recommendation is delete the yelp app and just walk around

re: uncle lou's it was set up specifically to be an elevated version of the corner takeout joint where there's 700 things on the menu so take a party if possible.

if this is her first time i wouldn't worry too much, everything is gonna taste good.

oh if she doesn't want to leave manhattan i would get the liangpi noodles from x'ian famous foods (there are better options in flushing, but)

she should make sure she is wearing a top she doesn't give a shit about that day

Yeah xian is good, wouldn’t be my first choice but

agree, i wouldn't know where to get better liangpi noodles in manhattan/how many other american cities have them. maybe lots?
it's something to try.

idk if to post this here or redd's roster but the shuttered New Yeah! Shanghai Deluxe with the fucking moat in the middle of the dining room that you had to cross a bridge over to get to your table was something else

The old Yeah! Shanghai Deluxe is still there but doesn't have that to recommend it for