Venturing into Manhattan's Chinatown yesterday morning, I thought my appetite would be satisfied by the extravagant array of dim sum options at Jing Fong. That, however, was not to be the case. Mind you, I'm not complaining about said dim...
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The interior of my brain My friends, Mike and Diana, were in town from Oakland and a bunch of us met last Sunday at Jing Fong. It should be called Jing Fong Convention Center - it fits nearly 800 people,...
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Now that I've been bitten by the Chinatown bug, I make an effort to go there as much as possible. So on Friday night, when making plans with Diana, I said: "Let's go to Chinatown!" and she agreed. We called a few more peeps from our posse and planned to meet on the corner of Canal and Broadway. In the meantime, I began my ritualistic pre-dinner research: I went on Chowhound and searched "Chinatown" and somehow, through the maze of threads, wound up on a long discussion about dim sum. I knew very little about dim sum except that many people love dim sum and that I'd had a bad dim sum experience last year when shooting our Chinatown video which you can watch in the videos section.
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One of the preferred dim sum halls in Chinatown. Huge and reasonably priced! It can sometimes be hard to get the carts to come over, though.
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After trying Ping's Seafood and the Golden Unicorn, I was still looking for more out of my NYC dim sum experience. Ping’s is too cramped, and although the quality is good, variety is limited. The Golden Unicorn, on the other hand, is spread out with many more carts whizzing around, but a few of my favorite fried items were soggy and extremely greasy - yuck. That leads us to our latest tale of NYC Chinatown dim sum, this time, a la Jing Fong. We went there a couple times in my ninth month of pregnancy and have been back with baby in tow to make sure it wasn’t just my pregnancy taste buds that were pleased. I have to say, Jing Fong has risen above the others and proven to be the best so far.
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You can’t miss Jing Fong with its shopping mall-style escalators. Sunday is the best day for dim sum, so try to go by 10am so you can experience “China” in the middle of Elizabeth Street. The lady at the bottom of the escalators screams into a microphone to call your party’s turn to be seated and it’s like a madhouse bingo-hall environment. Once you’re upstairs, you’ll see the gaudy red and gold decor: a true Chinese banquet hall. You share a round table with other people if your own group has less than eight. If you’re lucky, there will be a wedding on one side of the hall and you can witness how Chinese people party! Waiters push food carts around and you order your food by stopping one of them to get a peek of what they’re offering.
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