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Chinatown Classics →Joe’s Shanghai — Chinatown
46 Bowery · The soup-dumpling pioneer — order the crab & pork xiao long bao
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More in Chinatown Classics
- Nom Wah Tea Parlor — ChinatownChinatown's original tea parlor on crooked Doyers St — get the OG egg roll
- Wo Hop — ChinatownDown the steps at 17 Mott — cash-only Cantonese at 3 AM under decades of taped-up photos
- Jing Fong — Chinatown202 Centre St · The dim sum institution since 1978 — carts and har gow, now on Centre St
- Chinatown Ice Cream Factory — Chinatown65 Bayard St · Homemade black sesame, red bean, almond cookie — vanilla is on the “exotic” list
- Golden Unicorn — Chinatown18 E Broadway · The Cantonese banquet hall — weekend dim sum, no reservations: shrimp dumplings, egg tarts
- Xi’an Famous Foods — Chinatown45 Bayard St · From a Flushing mall-basement stall — spicy cumin lamb hand-ripped noodles, liang pi