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41-10 Main St (btwn 41st Ave & 41st Rd), Flushing, NY
Chinese Restaurant · 92 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The first sit-down restaurant from the folks behind Xi'an Famous Foods offers all their classics (lamb burgers, hand-pulled noodles, and more) with table service, still on the cheap.
13 E 37th St (btwn 5th Ave & Madison Ave), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · Garment District · 274 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: A modern Sichuan restaurant decked out in vintage 1920s Shanghai decor. The focus here is on quality, not quantity, with expertly cooked proteins and a smart hand with the spices.
22 Orchard St (btwn Hester & Canal St), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · Chinatown · 85 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: If you want to see what Chinese fine dining will look like in America in 10 years, eat at Fung Tu now. Modern Chinese cooking that's the right kind of fusion.
14 E 33rd St (btwn 5th & Madison Ave), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · NoMad · 43 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The real treasures lie not in the Sichuan food, which is pretty standard, but rather creative dishes like massive pork meatballs in a sauce of pickled mustard greens.
Chinese Restaurant · Murray Hill · 37 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The specialty here is the cuisine of Hunan, spicy food with all manner of dried, smoked, and pickled meat and vegetables. Get the fish with chili oil sauce and the dried beef with white peppers.
171 E Broadway (btwn Rutgers & Jefferson St), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · Two Bridges · 400 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Danny Bowien's gonzo Chinese cooking is more refined and smart than it used to be. The new dining room is also gorgeous, with red banquets lending an old New York feel.
Serious Eats: Get the excellent "Famous Garlic Aromatic Crispy Chicken" and "Famous Golden Fried Rice," some of the best fried chicken and fried rice the city has to offer.
Serious Eats: A Flushing classic for good reason; they don't let up on the heat here. Seek out uncommon dishes like fiery shell-on shrimp cooked with a ground pork and sweet asparagus.
247 Elizabeth St (btwn E Houston & Prince St), New York, NY
Tea Room · NoLita · 6 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: A small but high quality selection of loose leaf teas, mostly Taiwanese oolongs. Buy for brewing at home or do an educational tea tasting with the owner.
Serious Eats: Your Flushing brunch: a casserole of savory steamed egg custard slicked with soy sauce, chili oil, and nubs of ground pork. Gobble it up over rice.
18-24 College Point Blvd (btwn 18th & 20th Ave), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · 38 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Getting to College Point is a trek, but it's worth it for the Sichuan food here. Pickled string beans with ground pork have a serious addictive funk.
Serious Eats: Destination-worthy Northern Chinese in a nicer than average setting. Don't miss the Muslim Lamb Chop, which is braised until fall-apart tender, rolled in cumin seeds, and deep fried.
Chinese Restaurant · Midtown East · 256 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Best destination for the food of the Chinese city of Xi'an in NYC. Try the chewy liang pi noodles or "lamb face" salad, all doused in their alluringly fiery house sauces.
Chinese Restaurant · East Village · 314 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Best destination for the food of the Chinese city of Xi'an. Try the chewy liang pi noodles or "lamb face" salad, all doused in their alluringly fiery house sauces.
41-28 Main St, Basement #36 (at 41st Rd.), Downtown Flushing, NY
Chinese Restaurant · 43 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The oldest, and most old school, Xi'an location. Try the chewy liang pi noodles or "lamb face" salad, all doused in their alluringly fiery house sauces.
144 E Broadway (btwn Pike St & East Broadway), New York, NY
Noodle Restaurant · Chinatown · 256 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Skip the noodles and focus on the incredibly juicy and flavorful pork dumplings, the best you'll get in Chinatown--better than all those dumpling shops!
Serious Eats: You go here for one thing: pork wontons in hot oil (no. 6). The thin wonton skins hold a delicate filling; mild chili oil and preserved vegetable topping make this one of the best dumplings in NYC.
Serious Eats: Thick, chewy skins are the hallmark of this tiny dumpling shop in a slender mall. Pork and "fennel" (dill, actually) and aquatic vegetable dumplings are must orders.
Serious Eats: This stall is best for Fujianese-style "small wontons" floating in a rich chicken broth. Sesame noodles make a very cheap and tasty breakfast. Little to no English here.
68 Forsyth St Frnt B (btwn Grand & Hester St), New York, NY
Chinese Restaurant · Lower East Side · 184 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Excellent hand-pulled noodles, which you should order on the Big Tray of Chicken, a massive stew of spicy chicken and potatoes that serves three.
Chinese Restaurant · Theater District · 151 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The hand-pulled noodles are a little thicker and softer than ideal, but they come in broths you'll want to slurp and scrape out of the bottom of the bowl. Solid soup dumplings and sheng jian bao.
13 Doyers St (btwn Pell St & Bowery), New York, NY
Dim Sum Restaurant · Chinatown · 376 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: You have to respect the city's oldest dim sum parlor, which looks like a Law and Order set piece in the best of ways. The dim sum here won't blow your mind, but it's solid.
92 Hester St (btwn Allen St & Eldridge St), New York, NY
Hotpot Restaurant · Lower East Side · 54 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: For a fixed price you get over an hour of all you can eat hot pot with strong broths and plenty of dipping options. Be careful: the spicy broth isn't joking.
145D Hester St (btwn Chrystie St & Bowery), New York, NY
Bubble Tea Shop · Lower East Side · 66 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: The best bubble tea shop in Chinatown; they rely on quality tea, not sugar and fake flavorings, and let you control exactly how sweet you want your tea.
36-60 Main St 1st floor, (btw Main & Prince), Flushing, NY
Tea Room · Flushing · 66 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Hands-down the best source for Taiwanese tea in New York City. While the teas are expensive, a tea tasting ceremony costs just a few bucks. Can't-miss Flushing experience.
247 Elizabeth St (btwn E Houston & Prince St), New York, NY
Tea Room · NoLita · 6 tips and reviews
Serious Eats: Serene tea room with a small but excellent selection of loose leaf teas. Buy leaves to go or go on a "tea tasting journey" with the shop's resident tea master.