New York

NYC Chinatown Food Guide

From 1920s egg rolls to Xi'an hand-pulled noodles

Manhattan Chinatown rewards walking. Mott Street and East Broadway still hold dim sum parlors that have poured tea for a century, bakeries selling egg tarts and pork buns for pocket change, and roast-meat windows with lacquered ducks on hooks. Newer arrivals, from Malaysian kopitiams to hand-pulled noodle counters, keep the neighborhood moving rather than preserved in amber. Come hungry and graze: a bakery stop, a dumpling order, carts at a banquet hall, then dessert. Weekends are crowded for a reason, and most of the essential eating here still costs less than a Midtown lunch.