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I think the best way is to bring a Chinese friend with you. Most authentic places will have bad English speaking waiters. I hope you guys can eat shrimp and pork because Chinese people like to eat pork, shrimp, fish, and varies shellfish seafood.
Here's a quick list:
Joe's Shanghai
136-21 37th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
Order the pork and crab soup dumplings.
Great NY Noodletown
28 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
Get the shrimp dumpling noodle soup. Or you can get the Roast duck noodle soup.
Bamboo Garden Restaurant
6409 8th Ave (at 64th St.), Brooklyn, NY 11220
Go there during the Dim sum hours. They make really good shumai and other varies shrimp and pork based dim sum.
I think the best way is to bring a Chinese friend with you. Most authentic places will have bad English speaking waiters. I hope you guys can eat shrimp and pork because Chinese people like to eat pork, shrimp, fish, and varies shellfish seafood.
Here's a quick list:
Joe's Shanghai
136-21 37th Ave, Flushing, NY 11354
Order the pork and crab soup dumplings.
Great NY Noodletown
28 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
Get the shrimp dumpling noodle soup. Or you can get the Roast duck noodle soup.
Bamboo Garden Restaurant
6409 8th Ave (at 64th St.), Brooklyn, NY 11220
Go there during the Dim sum hours. They make really good shumai and other varies shrimp and pork based dim sum.
Thank you for those suggestions. We love Joe's. Haven't been to the others. But we added them to our list.
Check out the Outer Boroughs board of Chowhound for extensive discussion of Chinese restaurants in Queens and Brooklyn. One of the best places in the city currently is Little Pepper in College Point. Absolutely outstanding, but there are, of course, many different kinds of Chinese cuisine. Little Pepper is Szechuan.
Hunan Garden of Grand Sichuan on Main Street in Flushing, I think in between Cherry, and Franklin. It is a funny name. Why would there be a Hunan Garden in Sichuan Province?
There is also a Shanghainese place on Main Street near the NY Hospital Queens across from Jomar Carwash. It is near the LIE ramp.
In terms of old school chinese food in Manhattan, my go to place is Wing Wong at 102 Mott Street. They changed the name to 102 Noodles Town, but food taste the same so I assume it's still run by the same management.
In flushing, I've started to really like Sentosa. It's more modern and actually a Malaysian-Chinese fusion, but their dishes are fantastic. Not traditional chinese food but still taste great.
Traditional chinese vs American chinese vs Takeout chinese really should be 3 separate categories. I like American chinese food more than the traditional. Traditional is always the same thing in family style: fish, chinese, pork, beef, vegetable, and a soup. And they only have so many different variations of flavor for each, so if you've tried it once, you've tried it all.
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