Fuzhounese dumplings and peanut butter noodles on Grand Street for a few dollars — one of the best cheap meals in New York
Must-try: Pork and chive dumplings, Peanut butter noodles, Fish ball soup
📍 295 Grand St, New York, NY 10002
The best Chinese restaurants in Chinatown, New York City — 4 ranked picks with ratings and must-try dishes.
4 picksChinatown has 4 Chinese restaurants we would send anyone to, ranked here by rating and review depth. Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine sits at the top with 4.5 stars. If you only order one thing, make it the pork and chive dumplings at Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine. Most of this list stays under $40 a head. None of these take online reservations — they are walk-in or phone-only, so go early.
Manhattan's Chinatown still does the things it has always done well, and a newer generation of rooms has opened alongside without displacing them.
Fuzhounese dumplings and peanut butter noodles on Grand Street for a few dollars — one of the best cheap meals in New York
Must-try: Pork and chive dumplings, Peanut butter noodles, Fish ball soup
📍 295 Grand St, New York, NY 10002
The basement Cantonese institution on Mott Street — open since 1938 and still the last stop of a long night
Must-try: Roast pork lo mein, Wonton noodle soup, Beef chow fun
📍 17 Mott St, New York, NY 10013
Bowery Cantonese that runs deep into the night — salt-baked seafood, roast meats in the window, cash only
Must-try: Salt-baked soft shell crab, Roast baby pig, Flowering chive with roast duck
📍 28 Bowery, New York, NY 10013
Open on Doyers Street since 1920 — Chinatown's oldest restaurant, and the shrimp dumplings to prove the point
Must-try: Original egg roll, Har gow (shrimp dumplings), Rice roll with beef
📍 13 Doyers St, New York, NY 10013
Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine — 4.5 stars across 1,400 reviews, the highest on this list. Fuzhounese dumplings and peanut butter noodles on Grand Street for a few dollars — one of the best cheap meals in New York.
None of the 4 on this page take online bookings — they are walk-in or phone-only. Going early, or on a weeknight, is the reliable move.
The pork and chive dumplings at Shu Jiao Fu Zhou Cuisine, the roast pork lo mein at Wo Hop and the salt-baked soft shell crab at Great N.Y. Noodletown. Those are the dishes regulars point to first.
Ratings and review volume decide the order, but the list itself is drawn from restaurants people actually post about — 3 of the 4 here have a TikTok attached to their card. Every entry is checked as open before it ships.