[Pigging by Wilfrid: October 21, 2014]
We ducked into this old standby on Allen Street on a cold afternoon, after a long walk around SoHo, NoHo, NoLita, Chinatown and the LES. Seated promptly at a not-too-clean table, the food came slowly and randomly.
The most interesting dish was pale, steamed chicken, with a bewildering selection of strange mushrooms, and some little, bitter fruits with tiny seeds I couldn't identify.
Beef lo mein had richly flavored, thin but flat noodes, evidently cooked in stock, and actually tender beef.
Small, juicy buns "in a Shanghai style" leaked a soup component when peeled from the paper on which they were served, but worked as pork dumplings. The only dish which was problematic were some pan-fried pork patties which were salty, and also something you could make at home with a few chopped scallions and a hot pan.
Enough food for four people, so a check around $40 were fair. We weren't four, so we had a big doggy bag.
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