Well-seasoned and crispy fried chicken. Bun is unfortunately very sad. Fries (wedges) are okay, underseasoned. Try the off-menu "Koreano," their chicken sandwich with daikon radish slaw added.
Recommended dishes: Gyoza; Kyushu, miso, sesame, seafood, sutamina and vegetable ramen; garlic noodles. Read more.
Wait at the bar across if there's a long line. Spicy, great drinks, and awesome pandan water
dannyw says "Come here and pick up some tasty lunch bento boxes, or their latest hot seller, the okonomayaki + noodles set"
The line is worth it. Grab the smallest size, which is already a pound of food. Make sure to ask for the ginger scallion sauce.
Go here for Manhattan’s best budget Asian noodles. Slurp up Savory Cumin Lamb Hand-Pulled Noodles for $5 or Liang Pi Noodles for $4. Read more.
Get Combo B (octopus balls & pancake), all dressed, with a cold barley tea. For $10 you will be stuffed with exotic flavor. Best eating value in E Village.
Delicious upscale Japanese that won't break the bank. Love the lunch sets like the pressed salmon sushi. Everything is beautifully presented and the service is great. Soba is homemade and delicious!
The pork buns aren't all that but the spicy ramen is good and the pork is super tender. Um... Avoid the girl server. She seems like she hates her job :P
The ramen is classic, almost as well executed as Ippudo and much lighter, and tastes as good as the wait is painful. Arrive before 6 or wait 90m. Split the two daily ramens.
Order the ma-yu ramen with pork tonkotsu broth—a luscious meaty soup, more cloudy than creamy—with earthy, crunchy kikurage mushrooms and a half-submerged sheet of briny nori.
Minimalist Tokyo noodle export famed for its unique green curry ramen with grilled shrimp and okra.
Try the Mac and Chicharrón, a double dose of pork with a silky mix of American and cheddar cheeses, spiked with spicy sambal. It’s one of our #100best dishes and drinks of 2011. Read more.
Flying fish roe wasabi smoked salmon bagel. Do a few of their maracoons for a bite after, too.
You'll see your noodles slammed into shape as you wait. It's filling, delicious, and soooo cheap for noodle soup and dumplings. Read more.
The best soup dumplings in the city! Amazingly never too crowded, and spacious for Chinatown.
This is some of the best roast pork in Chinatown. A serving over rice will set you back about five bucks. Cash only.
If you don't end up with 2-3 times as many bamboo baskets as you have people at your table, you're doing it wrong. Want a good seat? Come early on Sunday morning... it fills up quicker than you will. Read more.
Head to this all-day cafe from the team behind century-old appetizing shop Russ & Daughters for smoked fish platters, caviar, blintzes, borscht, scrambled eggs with lox, and latkes with salmon roe. Read more.
Some of the best chicken wings to be found downtown IMHO. Skip the hot wings (too hot!) and go all-in on the garlic soy. Get some rice on the side too.
