
Vegetarian Dim Sum House is located at 24 Pell Street between Doyers and Mott Street in Chinatown (21, ). If you want to stick with something a little more classic, try the been curd, noodle and mushroom-heavy Buddha's Delight stew-it's a celebrated New Year's veggie dish. Adventurous-ish herbivores should check out the fake shark's fin soup and mock squid dishes. Vegetarian Dim Sum House: If you're not a pork-eater, Veggie Dim Sum offers lots of faux-meat dishes that are a fun alternative to the usual vegetarian Chinese food fare. Try the pork dumplings and steamed duck, or nom on the spinach dumplings if you're looking for a veggie option, and make sure you close the meal out with some fresh mango pudding.ĭim Sum Go Go is located at 5 East Broadway between Chatham Square & St. And though it feels like it can't be real dim sum if nobody yells at you, what they do here they do well. It's comparatively quiet and you don't get any cart-pushing servers snapping at you to pick your dish every five minutes.

Nom Wah Tea Parlor is located at 13 Doyers St between Bowery and Chatham Square in Chinatown (21, ).ĭim Sum Go Go:: This place is a little more refined than some of the more old-fashioned restaurants in Chinatown. Plus, if you like a little history with your meal, Nom Wah is located on Doyers Street's "bloody angle," which is known for being a murder hot spot during the "Gangs of New York" era. Try the shrimp rice rolls, crispy scallion pancakes and dollar roast pork buns, The dim sum is cheap-a meal for eight can clock in at less than $20 a person-and you often end up with plenty of leftovers to keep the cheer going for a few more days. You'll probably have to wait a bit for a table, but the steamed delicacies they serve you inside are well worth it. Nom Wah Tea Parlor: This Chinatown stronghold serves classic dim sum dishes from an old-school space. Here are a few of our favorites share yours in the comments: And while you could cook up some of these good-luck dishes to get this serpentine year started right, you might also want to check out some of the neighborhoods' top dim sum spots for a few celebratory small bites. The restaurant is located on Doyers Street, which was one of the city's prime murder spots back in the 19th century.The Year of the Snake has finally arrived (again), and this weekend Chinatown in Manhattan and Flushing in Queens will be swarmed with revelers. It's unclear when Nom Wah will open again, but they're one of our favorite dim sum places in the city, and a popular destination for weekend Chinatown crowds. Today, a judge ordered the Mott Street property owners to restore the line, but they're demanding that Nom Wah's owners front the cash for maintenance costs. The restaurant flooded, which probably smelled as pleasant as it sounds, and they've been shuttered ever since, putting all 25 employees out of work temporarily.

The Lo-Down reports that Nom Wah had to close last week when construction workers at a new building at neighboring 20 Mott Street severed the line, which runs through Nom Wah's basement.

One of the city's oldest and most celebrated dim sum spots, Nom Wah Tea Parlor, is apparently having some sewage trouble they've been closed for the past ten days thanks to to a sewer line that was severed by a nearby construction crew, and now they've gone to court to get the line restored.
