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Big Wong has the best roast pork in NYC, at least from what I have experienced so far. The meat is tender, juicy and tasty. Perfectly spiced and served perfectly over white rice. I ordered roast pork with fried rice originally but the server could not understand me and she kept repeating "yes roast pork with rice". After trying to correct her a couple of times, I said to myself "sure, why not". We both have an accent and it will just take too much effort and time and I didn't have the patience for it. I'm glad to say though that I had a great meal despite all.
When I went here the place was packed, and that usually tells you of how good the restaurant is. It did not take long to get a table however. But don't be surprised if you share your table with a stranger, which can be nice especially if you are dining alone in a big city like NYC.
If you are thinking of eating dinner after eating lunch in the same place, then definitely, you are mostly to go back.
Roast Duck w/ Chinese broccoli...
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
oily, salty, and delish *heart*
Big Wong sounds like something my girl would call me. Hahaha jk jk, I don't have a girl. And I'm chinese so make your own conclusions. What?..FU.
Sorry, anyways, on to the review. This place is pretty damn dirty. The floors are always sticky or greasy. One or the other. The layout is nothing to write home about, old tables and seats with a loud environment. The food however, is cheap and very good. I love the chicken chow fun and hot and sour soup here. In fact, its all I ever order so I can't speak for the other dishes. Oh and the service sucks. Never get a smile from anyone, not one cute waitress and everyone's old as dirt.
Did I mention its cheap? I could get a good meal for $6-$7. Cheapass dirty place to eat with ugly patrons.
To be perfectly frank, I hate Chinese food. It isn't anything special, maybe that's cause I have it everyday since I was born, and if I wanted real food I'd just head home.
But this place does Cantonese cuisine justice. I had the wanton mein, typical dish, but if a place doesn't have the basics down then you really don't want to eat anything else. The wantons were seasoned well, a good balance between shrimp and pork with just enough salt. My friends had the "three treasure rice," which is essentially rice with three your choice of meats, roast pork, chicken, and duck. The roast pork was really tender and supple, the kind when bite into it, it starts to fall apart in your mouth.
It's pretty good for a quick, cheap fix.
They are FAST and the service is OK.
The food is pretty good too.
The first time I came here was a couple of years ago, decked out in an evening dress, running away from a wedding reception where the food was questionable to say the least.
So my brother and I in our dressy regalia (yes, he was my +1, don't laugh!) decided we needed food after a long reception. We ordered scallion pancakes, roast duck and lo mein. We headed back to my car where the smell of good Chinese food replaced the odor of Evergreen Pine. It was so good.
Fast forward to Monday, where I was asked if I'd be hungry by noon by a starving Chun. I countered with 12:30, and ended up meeting the ravenous fellow at 12:45. He was minutes from ruining his appetite with cookies. Just minutes.
Anyways, we walked over to Big Wong King, got some cheap, tasty Chinese food, and walked back to our respective cubicles. This time, I had the boiled chicken with scallion ginger sauce and that was some of the best boiled chicken I've ever had. Tender, juicy and supremely flavorful.
I think I might be going back next week for scallion pancakes.
I'm a fan.
Excellent food, fast service, good prices.
The steamed veggies with oyster sauce are just greens but really tasty!
Walking here is the best!
I never knew the full name of this restaurant was Big Wong King, and I've been eating here since 2000. (And if the management could, it would change the address to 66, not that the place needs any more luck for business...)
Yup, if you want roast pork or duck, this is the place. The glaze on the pork is simply delish, and the duck skin is crispy. I don't know how they do it. To me, the shrimp wontons are also better than the ones at NY Noodletown, which tastes a little like soap detergent to me but according to some Cantonese friends that is how REAL shrimp wontons are supposed to taste (really?!?).
As always, don't expect service at a low-end Chinese restaurant. They will squeeze you in with other customers for maximum profit. The whole dining experience (if there is one) is kinda hectic, with servers hollering angry Cantonese across the room and clinking down plates and silverware for place settings at empty spaces on your table. The other option is to take out, which I think you get a slightly better deal because they give you a little more (I might just be imagining things). But I do have to say that the few pieces of sauteed cabbage that did once come with roast pork and duck over rice has disappeared over the years, and even the duck can sometimes be all skin and fat and no meat... so it's become *slighty* inconsistent in quality, in those terms.
But aside from Hong Kong, you'd be hard pressed to find more delicious roast pork and duck... yum.
This place is a Chinatown classic. It has been around since the mid-80's and is as crowded and popular as ever. I come here for the congee and soup noodle dishes and they never disappoint. I know because I've been coming here for over 20 years! A great side dish for first timers would be to order any of the roast meats on hand like the roast pork, soy chicken or the roast duck. Also, try the cheong fun. It is made fresh and is as good as any other place. Finally, I think the main reason why this place has been so popular as it has been are the prices. There is hardly a dish that is overpriced vis-a-vis their competition in Chinatown. I remember that my friends used to joke around that if I were to have a wedding banquet it would be at Big Wong's. Too bad the only thing missing here is the dragon and phoenix on the wall!
Does eating at this restaurant 20+ times in the last two years entitle me to write a review? You betcha!
For me, Big Wong epitomizes Chinatown. Loud. Crowded. Smelly. Shared tables. Clanging dishes. Dirty bathrooms at the foot of a long, dark flight of stairs. But worth it all for cheap, delicious, fast, cheap, cheap, cheap food. That's right folks, you can get a piping hot bowl of amazing congee (aka rice porridge) for less than the price of a grande soy latte at the Chinese-ified Starbucks down the street. Throw in a giant Chinese donut (ask for "now lay sow") for $1 more and you've got yourself a fantastic meal.
I recommend choosing a menu option that involves the BBQ roast pork, Big Wong's forte, which is also available by the pound for take out.
If you're looking to impress a date, have a quiet conversation in a quaint place, not get yelled at by a waiter... might want to keep searching. But if you (like me) find the recession-proof Big Wong pricing and food quality is worth sitting 6 inches from strangers who hear every bit of your conversation and enduring hot tea served in water glasses with little to no heat resistance, then stop on by!
when it comes to roast duck/pork, big wong never disappoints! their roast meat is tender and juicy. the roast duck always have the perfect skin-fat-lean meat ratio (i can't stand fatty roast duck), and the skin is perfectly done so that it is crispy yet not burnt or dry. i esp. love their wonton noodle soup with roast duck and 3 treasures (roast pork, duck, and chicken with a fried egg) over rice! the steamed vegetables with oyster sauce is a good add-on if you want to add some greens to your meal.
like many yelpers noted, the service here is super fast/efficient and the food is very inexpensive. what more can you ask for!
This place is great. The prices are incredibly cheap and the food is fresh.
The last time I came here I brought family from out of town and surprisingly our party of 10 were pretty easily accommodated. They loved the food, and everything came very quickly. Every time I go I'm satisfied.
If you are in need of eating the best bowl of congee in Chinatown, come here.
Their service is always very quick - though sometimes it feels as if they are rushing you. But hey seriously, if I get my food faster, then I don't mind eating it up faster!
Their preserved egg and pork congee is my absolute favorite. I usually put a ton of soy sauce in my congee for that extra taste/saltiness, but the congee from here never needs it. Always good - I attribute it to the pots that you see up in front that is always overflowing with congee. Hmm... yum.
Their dry beef noodle ( a typical staple of Cantonese cuisine) is always very tasty. Their food is excellently priced so come here for a fairly cheap meal with good food.
Because my parents are in some sort of Chinese Association that is located close to this resturant, I visited this place often as a child (trekking from NJ). I don't visit Chinatown often now but when I do, this is a great pitstop to pick up AMAZING AFFORDABLE meals.
Okay, I married a guy with the last name Wong , so I'm impartial to saying let's go to YOUR place.
We come here to pick up the Wonton Mein with shrimp and pork at only $4.25, congee with roast pork $4.50 (and from one of the Yelper's reviewers - now lay so....funny name since in English...you're asking for a cow's tongue when in reality it's just this big fried doughy thing that compliments your congee)
Whole table got incredibly sick after eating here. Bacterial infection in the throat. Not coming back here anytime soon.
Had congee, bbq pork and roasted duck over rice, wonton noodles, and tea. Not sure which was the culprit.
Cha Sui and Pork Ribs...that's what they're known for and that's all you should get here. Forget about the duck or the congee or any other noodle concoction they might have on their menus. As mentioned in my other reviews.. this is coming from 20+ years of eating chinatown chinese food not 1 time here or twice here i've been here at least 50+.
Happy chowing
Great place to have congee or the chee cheong fun. Very loud and friendly atmosphere but the food is so good. Every time I am there- I ordered at least a bowl of congee (with century egg and pork liver) and a nice wonton soup. These wontons are delicious. Mid size and well home made. Good a-la-carte dishes too. Basic great value for money in Chinatown! Me tell you - go eat.....you meet many Asian people there!
You better get your rear end to this place after you read all the good reviews. You better not order american style chinese food there and then come here and yelp how bad this restaurant is. Huff.
I was expecting a hole in the wall when I got there but ermm.. No. It was way more decent that I prepare myself for.
M. and I got there and this tall guy sat us at a table that had 4 seats. The tall man was like a traffic controller with loud voice. Hosting all the incoming clients. So 4 seats table for 2 uh? M. have mentally embraced himself to get seated at some point in this meal with some random stranger. (He already had that experience at Excellent Pork Chop House, with a grandma who was all smiley at us.)
We ordered appetizer size of roasted duck, my beloved steamed rice crepe (with roast pork inside) and beef chow fun. Those came quickly and were great! Honestly, I have had better roast duck but theirs is quite good. Tender and juicy, I can have another serving if I didn't have to leave room for other stuff on the table. The rice crepe was good and big in its portion and very generous with the meat filling inside. M.'s beef chow fun was just as good, the portion was huge. We shared it in had left overs.
Of course before our food arrived, a father and son was directed by the tall loud voice traffic controller to "share" our table. M. and I were holding hands and I wonder if that contributed to them smiling politely at us and requested to be seated somewhere else. (The tall man told them that they will have to wait for a while before scoring a table all for themselves.) This scenario played again for another two Asian girls who looked at us and frowned, then decided to wait longer for their table. After this I started to wonder if I smelled or have something between my teeth. In the end, we got a grandma (not a very friendly one). She eyed me when M. randomly decided to give me a peck on the lips.
I told M. that maybe next time we'll start making out whenever someone is about to sit down and share out table.
Bill came $15 before tip (you tip in a collective jar, not individually on the table. Also you get up and pay at the register.). We walked out more than full and happily satisfied.
We had the cheong fun with shrimp, the cheong fun with fried ceuellers, pork and egg porridge, roast BBQ pork, roast duck and fried won ton noodles and it was super yummy. Every dish did not disappoint :)
The food arrived pretty quickly and they were able to provide us with additional stuff as we ordered them pretty efficiently.
Highly recommend for a quick yum totally worth your money meal!!
I've been a client of Big Wong's for almost 15 years. My family used to bring me as a child, and I can contest to the fact that Big Wong's consistently has great food, which doesn't mean they don't have off days. I will contest that Big Wong's has on average the best Soy Sauce Chicken and Roasted Pork in manhattan, big claim, but i'm also a big eater and could eat your house down if I wanted to. My favorite dish is the Three Precious Ingrediants, it has Roast Pork, Soy Sauce Chicken, and a delicious fried egg over Rice. Considering it is loaded with tourists, the prices are still reasonable, and the quality hasn't gone that far down the drain. The atmosphere is one of the better in Chinatown even though they make you share tables.
Big Wong's on Mott St is the epitome of Cantonese cuisine in Chinatown. Located at 67 Mott St, New York, NY 10013 it has been there since the dawn of time, at least the dawn of Chinatown because it originated on Mott St before expanding tenfold. I feel that this is a great restaurant to go to regardless of local or tourist status. Although many locals think that the authenticity of a place is jeopardized with the influx of tourists, I believe otherwise. I feel that if the food is consistent, the type of customer is irrelevant.
The setting is your traditional low key Chinese restaurant with cheap chairs and Formica tables, the food however is extraordinary. Big Wong is very famous for theircongee with fried dough however, congee is one of my least favorite dish so I never order it. When my friend and I went during the lunch rush hour on Sunday, we were paired up with random strangers at the same table. They are extremely 'efficient' at seating but it makes the whole experience a lot more authentic.
We ordered the Shrimp Rice Crepe as appetizer; the most important characteristic of rice crepe is the smoothness. I felt that their rice crepe was mediocre because the sweet soy sauce did not have enough flavor and the crepe was not as smooth as other places.
The main dishes however were great. Fried Beef Chow Fun was very tasty, the nicely sliced pieces of sauteed beef was full of flavor. The noodles were thick and had a nice texture, best of all they do not skimp out on the portion. That dish alone was enough for the both of us, but not knowing so I also ordered the Roast Duck with Noodles. Roast duck is another dish that is like an art form, no two restaurant's are alike. Big Wong's duck is very famous among the Chinese community, the skin is always very crispy but not overly fat, this is what makes a perfect roast duck. They offer many different types of noodles for this dish, I just had it with regular wonton noodles.
Even during the lunch rush hour, we were served extremely fast.
Positives: Price point, atmosphere, authenticity, taste and service
Negatives: None unless you dislike being seated with strangers
For more reviews on other places to eat in Chinatown, check out my blog; http://chinatowneats.net
I grew up with this place. I ate here every Sunday when I visited Chinatown. How can I not like it? I remember scanning over the menu to pick something, but I'd always end up with the same thing: either beef and broccoli or beef and green peas with a small bowl on congee from my mom and I would pick out the squids. I would always be so full. Now, the prices have risen and the food portions have gotten smaller, but it's still the same fast and delicious food.
I used to come here with my friends when I was a teen too and they served me cold water, not hot tea. I'm 21 now and they still serve me cold water. No respect! Oh well...at least the food is deicious. =D
I'll always be a fan of Big Wong.
My family has been coming here since as long as I can remember, IMO they have the best noodle/rice/meat dishes. Though, they have changed their portions a couple of years ago. The portions now are a lot smaller then before they fill me up perfectly at a great price even in Chinatown. Food comes extremely fast & the menus are the greasy type. The restaurant is really grimy & I would never dare use the bathroom.
A place I go to every time I shop in Soho or step foot into CT.
Fast Food Chinese style. good.
Cash Only. The prices are cheap to reasonable but they went up since the last time I came here. Because my granny only remembers the old prices, I had to LIE to her. Instead of a beef noodle for $8.75 that was very large and fed two and a half people, I told her that it was $6.00. That was the price it used to be about five years ago!
Not handicap capable. The bathrooms are downstairs after a walk down a very narrow and irregularly stepped stairway. Not really clean.
A couple years ago, as we were sitting down to a plate of roast pork and rice, my husband and I found bugs in his rice... and yet? We still keep coming back.
THAT's how good Big Wong's roast pork is.
Anything with the pork is good bet. The duck can be a little fatty and beyond that, you're on your own. But the pork? Fantastic and cheap.
You know a place is good if it attracts tourists and white people especially if it's a hole in a wall. lol.
I love their noodles and squid w/ rice dish. My mom and I always stop in here after our haircuts and never have to wait for a seat. It's usually pretty busy too. It's your typical nyc restaurant.. in & out in less than 45mins. Food is served quickly. Love that!
Oh yea, cash only.
And if your comparing their bathrooms to other chinatown restaurant's bathrooms, BWK's bathroom is one of the CLEANEST.
You come here for the rice plates, noodles, and BBQ meats. Place is reasonably clean, but service and accomodation is at a minimum, if any. You probably noticed many similar places in c-town, but I would say Big Wong is the best of the bunch given their consistency. This place looks the same as when I ate there 25 years ago. Some of the staff is the same too (with more grey hairs). All the dishes are good. I like congee with crullers, wonton soup, roast duck, roast chicken, roast pork, boiled chicken with ginger scallion sauce (this is the healthy option - order w/o skin), beef w chinese veggies over rice, seafood chow mein.....the list goes on.
You can say the prices are still cheap but I am disappointed to see the prices creep up significantly over the years. I would give 5 stars if they stopped raising the prices at the speed of Starbucks price increases.
I used to eat here pretty often when I lived downtown, I had lunch here today for the first time in years. It was exactly as I remembered it...
Very cheap and very authentic Chinatown. Formica tables, waiters that are so rude and negligent you think it has to be an act, nothing on the menu for vegetarians. I had a bowl of plain congee, I can believe it's the best in town. The waiters are the worst though, I couldn't get a glass of cold water and had to drink the complementary hot tea to wash down the congee.
Decent place to grab a quick bite for lunch. Prices are rock bottom cheap, but you get what you pay for: portions aren't large, and the roast duck is indeed considerably fatty.
I usually get the roast duck over noodles ($3.50) or the roast duck over rice ($3.25), which usually consists of a wing piece, 2-3 meaty pieces, and 2-3 fat/skin pieces.
Yes, you have to share tables, the decor is nil, and service is brusque ("efficient"), but I'm Asian and used to it, so no major complaints here. Also, where else can you go and get a full service meal in under 30 minutes and for less than $5?
Tip: They have yau tieu (the long pieces of fried dough, also known as savory "Chinese doughnuts") if you ask--it goes perfectly with congee (rice porridge).
Jim and I always eat here when we visit NYC. I think this place has the best roast pork over rice. (Yeah, you heard me Buford Hwy). The wonton mein soup here is something you can't get anywhere else.
Walking in here this past weekend was a trip down memory lane. It's always chaotic but it's an organized chaos. You sit at a table with other people and chances are, you're the only one not speaking Cantonese or Mandarin. The service is go-go-go which is fine because, really, you just can't wait that long to tear into some delicious, perfectly cooked, roast pork.
Did I mention this place is cheap? Roast pork over rice, Chinese vegetables with oyster sauce, wonton mein soup, an extra serving of roast pork (what, you think I'm going to share mine?), and beer was $25.
Cash only so don't think about pulling out a credit card.
One of the cheapest Chinese place I've every been. Consider me a fan!
The food here is very simple and authentic. This doesn't mean it's bad. On the contrary, the food here is very good! Just don't expect to be wowed by the presentation.
The dishes here are usually about $5-$6 and that's very reasonable as one dish will probably fill you up. Yum!
Cash only!
Ever since I was a kid, this place has had the BEST Roast Duck (Faw Op)! My sis who moved out of state, comes here every time she comes home to eat their Roast Duck!
Their Jook - (congee) is sooo good! The long crullers are best around noon. I take em home with an order of jook and bake em in the oven for 5 minutes - ooo nice, oily, =P and crunchy!
Yes! The roast pork (cha siew) and Soy sauce chicken (see yuw gaiy) is mouth watering!
Yes! This place isn't =( good for vegetarians.
Yes! Some of this food is greasy - a lil pork fat anyone?
No! The toilets aren't clean - everybody comes in off the streets to use em! - ugh! *had to put that in* ;)
Yes! The prices will knock McD's OUT! VERY reasonable prices for whatcha get!
OOOh! YES! The ginger/scallion sauce is AWESOME!
Go There! Sit! Eat! Enjoy! Burp! lol
p.s. It's a Cantonese (Canton/Guangzhou) fast food place.
(Unless you go when it's "downtime") Crowded * Quick * Loud * Tasty * Cheap!
Enjoy calling/shouting out to your server if you need anything! =)
P.s.s. Updated 2/24/09 -
1) WTF?! I saw shrimp CREPES!?, Beef CREPES?! in another review?!! Please don't mislead! These are in NO Way any relation to "crepes"! yeh yeh, I know it's written that way on the dam* new menus,.. These so called "crepes" are flat rice noodles with filling of shrimp or whatever. usually 2 or 3 to a dish and squirted with sweet soy sauce. Anyways, just thought I'd let u know. *better to eat stuff like that in a Tea/Dim Sum House*
2) Yeh, it's called "Big Wong King" now,.. but those in the know still call it "Big Wong's"
3) Yeh, partners have broken off and opened shop nearby with similar menus,.. U have to know which ones or end up with mediocre copies. (only if this place is so jammed packed you can't get in - happens Sundays esp.)
Big P.S. Thx for the compliment "peter d."- now go! Eat! Enjoy! =P
3.5 that I'll bump to 4.
Was in town and my friends suggested going here. We were lucky to get a table almost immediately walking in on a Saturday afternoon. I wasn't really in the mood for soup and decided to go ahead and order the chow mein with pork and black bean sauce. It was good but not so great that I'm craving it now. I think there were definitely way too many bell peppers in it. The noodles were great and crisp and w/ the sauce on top eventually got to a good soggy.
Service is minimal. You order, they bring you food and you're done. Should you need anything else, expect to flag servers down and almost yell to get their attention. Definitely a good cheap spot and expect to share a table if there are only 2 of you occupying a 4 person table. Cash only.
Ok fine, the food was pretty close to authentic. But is that all that matters? Not to me at least. First off, they squeezed 3 random couples at a 4 person table. I personally don't care to sit with my shoulders pressed up against the wall to accommodate the six people that were squeezed into our table. Keep in mind that no one knew each other.
My water glass stayed empty for the entire meal, which is a HUGE no-no. The irony is that the guy that was squeezed next to me spilled his entire glass of water all over me as he was trying to eat. No one at the table was obese, either.
I hope that they read this (doubtful) and learn to focus more on quality than just how many people they can cram into their restaurant.
Walking into this resturant is always chaos. (In a good way though) People are all over the front register and anxiously waiting to sit down. Honestly, it is stepping into another world at times. The smells are delicious, the sounds are foreign, the service is fast and the food is yummy.
As quickly as you walk in, you are seated. In fact, you might even sit next to total strangers. Well at least I have once or twice. I always enjoy how unpredictable my lunch or dinner is going to be there.
The waiters and staff are straight forward. You have minimal contact with them after you order your food. If you want a refill or whathaveyou this is the place where you better speak up or you will be deprived.
I have been going to the Big Wong for over 5 years. If you into quiet dining and a zenlike decor this isn't the spot for you. It is basic, loud, fast and sometimes the trip to the bathroom is down right scary. It's down some serious steps, the ladies room is a hit or miss at times.
Overall, I have been addicted to their pan fried noodles and chicken for quite some time. The bok choy is sauted wonderfully. Sometimes I take a to go bag with me back to The Garden State. :)
FYI: This place is cash only. I learned that one the hard way!
It's okay. Mediocre.
I've been a patron of Big Wong on Mott Street since 1984, seriously. My family use to own a driving school and accounting practice on Bayard, so most of my meals as a child until now were from Big Wong. Big Wong WAS good. Past tense. Their mainstay is really for tourist who walk-in, die-hard locals and the older generation.
Other reviewers say the "jook" or rice congee/rice porridge is delcious here. Not true. I can name a handful of better restaurants in the area who make better jook. The congee here is too pasty, more like here's SOME rice, the rice is just a thickening agent. Salt and MSG goodness right? No, thank you. I will say though, the traditional complement to the jook is the fried cruellers, salty or sweet. Those are made very well here, and I am pretty sure a lot of restaurants get their fried cruellers from Big Wong, no joke. I've seen people wait staff run in and buy a box of fried cruellers.
In regards to their BBQ products, all I can say is, EH...It's not that great, and again, I can point to several other locations that have better. It's hit or miss here. Sometimes you'll get good pieces of BBQ, and sometimes you'll get bad pieces of it. It's not consistent. Sometimes I come here and the cha sui would have no flavor, sometimes it's too sweet. Also, they tend to steal some chicken if you order a whole or half chicken. Believe me, I've seen it with my own eyes. Another thing to beware of, if you are not Chinese, you might want to watch out when they cut up your BBQ, because they might give you really crappy parts. They did it to me a lot, but I'm Chinese, but I'm what they call a ABC...You don't have to believe me, but it happened...many times.
What happened with this establishment? A lot of the ex-workers, ex-chefs, co-owners left and opened their own "Wong" restaurants. True story. So you can assume, as chefs and employees leave, they also take their skill in making food, or making Chinese BBQ.
Anyways, it's not the best of places, but it's not the worse. It's smack-dab in the middle and not much more.
Mmmm...I love noodle houses. They remind me of visiting my grandparents in HK. I come mostly for the preserved egg and pork congee and the wonton soup noodles, but the roasted meat rice plates are also very good. So good and so fast- yum!
Big Wong Restaurant is the best true Chinese restaurant I have yet to experience so far in New York.
If you spend a lot of time in San Francisco chinatown like I do and want a meal that makes you feel like you're in a restaurant back in SF, or you're a tourist that wants to experience a local NY chinatown meal, then this is surely the place.
Big Wong is mostly a local's place... it's not all fancy and won't attract tourists like an upscale dim sum restaurant with red carpets and folded napkins would.
Best of all, their food is top notch.
One of the best places in Chinatown for rice cruller rolls and roasted meats. Relatively clean as well.
When my "Uncles" at the Chinese Association took me here, I knew it was going to be something special. Once you make it past the chaotic din at the register and nab a spot sharing tables with complete strangers, this authentic Chinatown hole-in-the-wall serves up tasty Cantonese fare at little prices. A meat lover's favorite, the Chasui (Barbeque Pork), Faa Op (Roast Duck), and Seeyiu Gai (Soy Sauce Chicken) hanging behind the store window are a must. The Beef Stew Wonton Noodle Soup also shines.
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