Category: Food & Drink

A bright, playful Chinatown dessert shop for bubble tea, fruit teas, and Asian sweets. The boba leans rich and creamy, and the standouts are photogenic: mango pomelo sago, taro coco, and watermelon coco sago.

A tucked-away Henan hole-in-the-wall built around hand-pulled hui mei noodles and its legendary Spicy Big Tray Chicken, piled high with mouth-numbing peppercorns. No frills, cash only, and consistently one of the best-value meals in the neighborhood.

A Lower East Side institution for fast, inexpensive dumplings and sesame-pancake sandwiches. Counter service, high volume, and budget-friendly. The fried pork-and-chive dumplings are the move. It has grown into a small NYC group, but the Eldridge Street original is the one to know.