Top 5 Chinese Restaurants in New York

[samnyc]

Who has a definitive list? By the way, any restaurant with sushi on the menu is ineligible.

1. Grand Szechuan - 52nd and 9th
2. Wu Liang Ye - 48th and 6th
3. Joe's Shanghai - Chinatown
4. Dyanasty - 110th and Broadway
5. TBD

[TooCute]

Never heard of any of those places except Dynasty which I find to have extraordinarily mediocre food. I also very much prefer Cantonese over the ubiquitous quote-unquote Hunan-Szechuan style, though, so that may be why. Most places calling themselves hunan-szechuan are horrendously americanized. My top two (and I've eaten a lot of chinese food in the city over the past 20 years) are:

Far and away number one best chinese in the city: Phoenix Garden (right by the UN on 40th between 2nd and 3rd)

Fuleen Seafood (on Division street, right at the end near Canal - best seafood in the city!!!!!!! Make a reservation though, they seemed to be PACKED all the time and if you're not chinese, I have a suspicion that you wait MUCH longer for a table). Their pepper-and-salty little white fish are better than Phoenix Garden's, but Phoenix Garden's pepper-and-salty shrimp are the hands down best in town.

Just ate at Phoenix Garden Sunday night actually (it's BYOB, just so you are aware if you ever go there), and we saw Mitch Miller.

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[stormshadow]

shun lee palace, west 65th between columbus and CPW. yummy but $$$$ and small portions

[Tall_James]

Just ate at Phoenix Garden Sunday night actually (it's BYOB, just so you are aware if you ever go there), and we saw Mitch Miller

Holy crap! He must be ancient! Did he still have the Van Dyke?


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[TooCute]

shun lee palace, west 65th between columbus and CPW. yummy but $$$$ and small portions

You're right. WAY too overpriced, teensy portions, and they're not really that good. Sub-mediocre even. Kind of like the Tavern on the Green of chinese food.

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[JustJon]

Citysearch's top 10 chinese places (http://newyork.citysearch.com/best/results/8484/)

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[TooCute]

Holy crap! He must be ancient! Did he still have the Van Dyke?

No! But he was totally ambulatory and very friendly. We told him we loved him, thanked him for his work and told him we used to follow the bouncing ball.

It was either that or say, "Excuse me, are you Mitch Miller? You mean you're not dead?!"


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[Uncle Smokey]

Congee Village on Allen Street is fantastic for a fast bite (assuming you like congee) and Ive never had a bad meal at Pings on Mott St...Seafood galore, along with the occasional deep fried duck's tongue. Sadly, Ive never seen Mitch Miller in either establishment.



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[A.J.]

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[murfee]

sun -lin gardens @ 69 mott st ask for wong or joe lee


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[JustJon]

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[ADF]

You could've said, "Hey, it's Miller time!"

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[TooCute]

Citysearch's top 10 chinese places (http://newyork.citysearch.com/best/results/8484/)


I have zero confidence in a list that lists Wo Hop and Shun Li Palace in the top ten of NYC chinese restaurants. They probably think Ruby Foo's is good, too. Yeah. I like going to tourist traps. Uh huh.

They also gave Vong a 9.1, holy shit. It was the WORST restaurant (of any kind/cuisine) I've ever been to, by FAR.

It's like Zagats. You can't trust it because you don't have a clue who's doing the revieewing and whether they have a fucking clue.

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[TooCute]

Congee Village on Allen Street is fantastic for a fast bite (assuming you like congee) and Ive never had a bad meal at Pings on Mott St...Seafood galore, along with the occasional deep fried duck's tongue. Sadly, Ive never seen Mitch Miller in either establishment.

Majority of places on mott street are good for a quick bite, expecially at like 3 AM. My favorite was always Sun Lok Kee, but they've closed :(

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[jocefus]

wo-hops on mott st.

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[The Chairman]

I agree with Too Cute on everything posted here. Phoenix Garden is amazing and you know Fuleen is great when every time we go there I'm the only white guy in the place. But now I give them the one or two lines I know in Chinese (Mandarin actually works better there) and they usually treat me like a white guy who isn't just there because he read an article that it's Daniel Boulud's favorite spot to go in the city. The only thing I don't really like is that they have like 20-25 fish tanks with the live fish, crabs, shrimp, Spot Prawns!, etc, right there in the window. I really don't like to see my food alive before I eat it, although I always get the live Dungeness Crab with XO sauce. For some reason that doesn't bother me as much.

No! But he was totally ambulatory and very friendly. We told him we loved him, thanked him for his work and told him we used to follow the bouncing ball.
It was either that or say, "Excuse me, are you Mitch Miller? You mean you're not dead?!"

This was really funny. And what made it better for me is as much as I think I know a little about a lot of things, I thought Aya, her mom, and my mom and dad were talking about Glenn Miller (they were saying Mitch I was picturing Glenn) and I start humming Chatanooga choo choo and they all look at me like I'm an idiot.

So then I tried to recover and went up to ask him how it was being married to Marilyn Monroe but that didn't work either. Mitch said Phoenix is the best Chinese in the USA! and said he comes all to way from uptown for the food at Phoenix.

Yes he still has the Van Dyke. And yes, his heart is still ticking like Abe Vigoda's.

As far as Wo Hop, when I was younger I thought it was great. Then when I realized what real Chinese food was supposed to taste like I stopped going. Then a few years ago, my Chinese friend takes me there and I'm like, you've got to be kidding. Sure enough, I walk in with a Chinese guy and they take us to a different room with only Chinese people and the menu it totally different. It was like walking into Sizzler and being escorted to Spark's Steakhouse in the back.





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[JustJon]

Chairman's story reminds me of a chinese restaurant I used to go to years ago. A group of co-workers and myself would go to a chinese restaurant in Central Jersey. A couple of my team members were Chinese, so we'd sit down and they'd give them special menus in Chinese.

The shit on this other menu was so much different and better than the food on the English menu, it was like eating at a far superior restaurant.

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EDIT -- I asked a question that was already answered.

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