TaliesinNYC Posted March 26, 2007 Share Posted March 26, 2007 Haven't been to PG in years. The last time must've been when I was in my teens, when it was still in the arcade in Chinatown. The salt-and-pepper shrimp has been indelibly seared into my brain forevermore.For me, my baseline consists of home-cooked meals by my grandmother and mother. Being of Chinese (Fukien)/Filipino ancestry, that's the yardstick I use to compare most Chinese meals in NY.Will I eat it? Sure. I'll eat most anything that you put in front of me. Will I sing its praises and heap hosannas? That's a different story altogether. Would I go out of my way to restaurant _________? Only if my friends are going. Chinese food isn't something I'll actively seek out unless I'm with company.That being said, here's what I do like:Grand Sichuan (50th St): any of the freshly killed chicken dishes, green parrot w/red mouth, fatty bacon, chestnuts, ma po tofu, dan dan noodles, pork with sour string beansWu Liang Ye (east 86th St)New Green BoCongee VillageChives and pork fried dumplings and sesame pancakes at Dumpling House.House-smoked duck at Chao Zhou in Flushing.Just about anything at Hong Kong Station.Oysters in a clay pot and flash-fried shrimp with Shao Hsing wine at Oriental Garden.Chinatown Brasserie is ok for dim sum, as in once in a very blue moon.When I was living in Jackson Heights, there was a Chinese seafood palace near 74th and Roosevelt that's closed now. They had one of the best red-cooked chicken with ginger/garlic/scallion paste that I've had in a while. Winter melon soup with Smithfield ham. That's a little over nine years ago. Ah, memories.My grandmother still makes the best lion's head meatballs, hands down. I doubt any restaurant could surpass hers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eatpie Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 New, very interesting Chinese spot in soft opening on the east side of 3rd Ave, just north of the Rodeo Bar (27th?). I grabbed a take out menu the other day, tons of very interesting selections - ambitious and authentic (at least on paper). Looks like they sunk a lot of $ into the renovation. I only saw the ground floor but it appears to be 3 levels, highly styled. Will try this weekend and report back... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 New, very interesting Chinese spot in soft opening on the east side of 3rd Ave, just north of the Rodeo Bar (27th?). I grabbed a take out menu the other day, tons of very interesting selections - ambitious and authentic (at least on paper). Looks like they sunk a lot of $ into the renovation. I only saw the ground floor but it appears to be 3 levels, highly styled. Will try this weekend and report back... Whats the name, whats the name.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rozrapp Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 New, very interesting Chinese spot in soft opening on the east side of 3rd Ave, just north of the Rodeo Bar (27th?). I grabbed a take out menu the other day, tons of very interesting selections - ambitious and authentic (at least on paper). Looks like they sunk a lot of $ into the renovation. I only saw the ground floor but it appears to be 3 levels, highly styled. Will try this weekend and report back... Whats the name, whats the name.. A report on Chowhound: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/385001 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eatpie Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Yup, that is the place; Shanghai Restaurant. Its quiet because #1) they are in a soft opening and #2) they still (as of last week) don't have their liquor license. Owner told me the head chef and part of management is from the upper east side's Shanghai Pavillion. I did try their juicy buns on my "fly by" - they were good. Broth wasn't as fatty as I prefer but Id order them again. Ill hit it this weekend and report back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
porkwah Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Well, Happy Joy is shuttered now, and that was a great place for roast pig. Wing Shoon, meanwhile, is very fancied up after its refurbishment: dim sum there was okay, not life-changing, but it's still very cheap. oh, crap -- my one visit there was very good and i was looking forward to more. drove by and saw it shuttered and hoped it was just for the day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Dilley Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 103 E. Broadway is shuttered as well. Any below-the-radar suggestions for lunch in Chinatown today? I'll be near Chatham Square. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Steven Dilley Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Nevermind. 103 E. Broadway is back. BBQ meats over rice with a fried egg and bit of cabbage is the (only) way to go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Josh Karpf Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 I love mangosteen. The two times I've been able to buy the whole fruit in NYC, though -- frozen from Thailand and smuggled directly from there or through Canada; Thai mangosteens are illegal to import -- the quality was variable. But I'm happy to report that the Chinese/Vietnamese grocery on Bowery, near the southeast corner of Grand St., is again selling packaged, frozen, sweetened mangosteen juice, $1.95 for ten ounces including peeled fruit at the bottom of the cup. They stopped selling it a couple of months ago, and I've been nagging them since then to restock it. I've never found it anywhere else. This is the mangosteen juice that tastes good, like perfumey lychee or longan but even better. This is not the supposedly anticancer and antioxidant alternative-medicine mangosteen juice that is processed with the skin. I don't want to think what that tastes like. You can find the tasty mangosteen juice in the freezer case on the right side of the store, past the checkout counter, near the rear, sharing a shelf with frozen soursop and cane juice sold in similar cups. The mangosteen juice's cups have purple labels. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LiquidNY Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Gael Greene writes up an interesting report on Shun Lee West. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joethefoodie Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 She's been friends with Tong for a long time, so I don't know that us plebes would get the same quality food. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lex Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't trust her palette. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TaliesinNYC Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Reminds me of one of Reichl's reviews. Joe's Shanghai, I think it was. Odd. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 Totally.. My friend invited me to his restaurant and I gave him an obligatory write up. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony Bonner Posted October 15, 2014 Share Posted October 15, 2014 I don't trust her palette. Her blues too cerulean her greens too verdigris. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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