Chinatown

Flaming Kitchen

Chinese food comes in many varieties in New York but to me there clear top 2 are Dim Sum and Sichuan. Finding a place that can nail the Central Chinese province’s cooking and the Cantonese brunch food however is like looking for a restaurant that does great pulled pork and […]

Bite of Hong Kong

Why Come Here? Authentic Cantonese cooking with interesting specialties and an emphasis on seafood Chinese food in New York tends to fall into two categories: the Americanized sweet & salty stuff we all have a love-hate relationship with, dumpling-heavy dim sum and the spicier Szechuan style. Personally I love all […]

Chikarashi

Why Come Here? Gourmet Poke bowls that are easily NYC’s best 2016 may be known as the year poke-sanity invaded New York, and I sorry but I don’t mean Pokemon Go. I’m talking about Poke (prounouned po-kay… yes like pokemon), an Asian-influenced Hawaiian dish that traditionally consists of soy sauce […]

Mission Chinese Food

Note: I was invited as a guest of the establishment and received a complimentary meal. This was not in exchange for a positive review and opinions expressed are my own.   I recently had the pleasure of attending a luncheon at Mission Chinese Food to celebrate the release of Los Angeles […]

Fung Tu

Why Come Here? French- and South American- Inspired Chinese dishes, Cocktails & Foodie Snacks at the Bar Following my visit to Kings County Imperial, I made my second Chinese Fusion foray of the week to the nearly two year-old Fung Tu. The chef Jonathan Wu is a vet of Per Se, so I […]