Best Chinatown restaurant options?

[FoodieFolks]

Can anyone tell me about their favorite Chinatown restaurants? I know there will be crowds there on Christmas day, but I'm hoping my husband and I can still find a decent meal. Any advice is certainly appreciated.

[Lau]

well what type of chinese food do you want?

[AubWah]

yea i cant imagine how mobbed chinatown is christmas day. here is a sleeper pick-try famous sichuan on pell street. all the regular favorites will be so swarmed and this place flies under the radar but has some good sichuan cuisine

[buttertart]

I'd wondered about that place myself, hadn't seen any praise of it to speak of, what do they do well?

[MWinston]

I go there for lunch from time to time (they have a fantastic lunch special). I usually get the Chengdu Double Sauteed Pork and it is out of this world delicious.

[buttertart]

That's great to know, always up for Sichuan food.

[sagetom]

Famous Sichuan rolls on under the radar and I concur that their Chengdu Double Sauted Pork is incredible and a part of my lunch rotation!

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Famous Sichuan
10 Pell St, New York, NY 10013

[Chandavkl]

Well the string beans are very good, so that's a starting point.

[buttertart]

Indeed it is.

[AubWah]

do you pay the price on the menu or do they pull a tax out of their butt?

[buttertart]

This is to Chandavikl I take it? I hven't been to this place.

[AubWah]

to anyone who would like to answer sorry for the confusion

[buttertart]

Are they a bit random in their billings?

[AubWah]

maybe like cantoon garden they add the special gweilo tax?

[Lau]

really? obviously this doesn't happen to me

btw if you use credit cards at alot of places you will get taxed (pretty shady)

[AubWah]

i use only cash. i say this only because they always scribble tax on my check but i saw the older chinese woman's check who i was talking to and it had no tax. also they charged me tax at new chow chao the first few times i went and once they recognized me they stopped

[buttertart]

I am not Chinese and have never ever seen a mistake on the bills at Cantoon - and we eat there a lot. Nor have I at any other Chinese restaurant we (both not Chinese) patronize. We pay in cash.

[AubWah]

ive never seen a mistake their either just noticed they charge me tax and not my chinese friend

[buttertart]

Dunno.

[AubWah]

what a kitchen though fantastic place to eat and bring family and friends

[buttertart]

Cantoon? Yeah - my friends from France practically fell over backward when they saw the 2 lobster special - you couldn't get one for that price in paris.

[buttertart]

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/7174...
This question is asked rather a lot - there are multiple links in this thread, contributed by our own Chinese food expert, scoopG.

[diprey11]

What kind of Chinese food do you like most?

[Pan]

For two people, your best options are probably either dim sum at Dim Sum Go Go or Red Egg or to go to a noodle shop like Noodle Village, Great NY Noodletown, Bo Ky, or Chow Chou, or the roast duck specialist, Wing Huang. But expect everything to be completely mobbed.

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Dim Sum Go Go
5 E Broadway, New York, NY 10038

Noodle Village
13 Mott St, New York, NY 10013

Red Egg
202 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013

[kathryn]

I believe Red Egg takes reservations, and are on OpenTable.com.

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Red Egg
202 Centre Street, New York, NY 10013