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Chinatown Classics in NYC
Hand-picked by Gothamly and checked against each place’s own site. Nobody paid to be here.
- Since 1920
Nom Wah Tea Parlor — Chinatown
Chinatown's original tea parlor on crooked Doyers St — get the OG egg roll
- Since 1938
Wo Hop — Chinatown
Down the steps at 17 Mott — cash-only Cantonese at 3 AM under decades of taped-up photos
- Since 1978
Jing Fong — Chinatown
202 Centre St · The dim sum institution since 1978 — carts and har gow, now on Centre St
- Since 1978
Chinatown Ice Cream Factory — Chinatown
65 Bayard St · Homemade black sesame, red bean, almond cookie — vanilla is on the “exotic” list
- Since 1989
Golden Unicorn — Chinatown
18 E Broadway · The Cantonese banquet hall — weekend dim sum, no reservations: shrimp dumplings, egg tarts
- Since 1995
Joe’s Shanghai — Chinatown
46 Bowery · The soup-dumpling pioneer — order the crab & pork xiao long bao
- Since 2005
Xi’an Famous Foods — Chinatown
45 Bayard St · From a Flushing mall-basement stall — spicy cumin lamb hand-ripped noodles, liang pi
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