Cheap Dim Sum in Chinatown
13 Jul
Chatham Restaurant
9 Chatham Square
New York, NY
If you looking for cheap food, fast service, and don’t mind hanging with the old foggie studying OTB, Chatham Restaurant or Hop Shing is the place to go. The decor is out dated, there’s a brownish tint from the 60′s which I guess when business were booming. Now it’s mostly hangout for loyal morning seniors or occasional Gwai Lo that stops in for a bite. They make the typical dim sums such as, shrimp dumplings (ha gau), steamed dumplings, rice noodle rolls with soy sauce (cheong fun), chicken feet (fung zau), pork ball looking things (sui maai) and etc. Nothing surprising like the taste of the food. The chicken feet I ordered tasted dry, like it’s been left out for while. The sui maai was my favorite thing I ordered.
The check came out under $10, it feed two people AWESOME. Actually I wasn’t that hungry and it was late in the afternoon when there weren’t much dim sum cart being pushed out.
*People still spit the chicken bones onto the floor and their other trash too. Classic.
