With its impressive outside sign and massive seafood tank, Everett gets kudos for standing out amongst the Chinese businesses along 8th avenue but more importantly gets my nod for the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn Chinatown. There are few places that can emulate the quality of selection Everett has to offer. I can't think any establishment in the area that has a more extensive menu of Seafood and Fujian style specialties. To add to that, they have fast service, excellent prices, and feature a splendid decor. As I mentioned in my previous review, everything about the restaurant almost distinctly caters to a Chinese crowd (menu selection, CCTV news, and even the karaoke) but I have seen some non-Chinese in here on occasion. The waitresses do speak some English, but coming with someone who may speak Mandarin would likely help the dining experience tremendously. The dishes just keep getting better and better during each visit. There is no question the food is of superior quality, with plenty of flavor and freshness, and can cater to a variety of palates. There are some standard Cantonese / Northern Chinese dishes available as well, but I advise most folks to get a little adventurous and order their homestyle dishes (i.e. Steamed Mantis Shrimp, Fukinese King Crab, etc.), especially the ones that are less likely to be found in other establishments. On a whole, this place is hard to miss and even harder to pass up for folks who can appreciate true authentic cuisine. The sign on the outside glows into the night while all of the tiny markets and bakeries close for the after hours. Though the place looks deceivingly small upon entering, there is also a basement level (a la Congee Village) for big groups who want a private dining experience. They are open late, but the best time to go is during the dinner hour and even better if one can score a table on the weekend. read more

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Great dishes cooked just right. No need to go to Manhattan Chinatown! Dumplings are wonderful. Asparagus and mushrooms tender and delicious

Goodness.. food here is sooo SO good. I can't get anything like the menu items here in MD. I got two different clam dishes - the black bean sauced one and the blood clams, both which are excellent. They have so many seafood dishes! I can't believe I overlooked the other amazing items they have including the squid and seafood pancakes. There are no Chinese restaurants in my state that serve these authentic dishes so I'm so disappointed! It's one of those restaurants with such an array of uncommon menu items that a single trip here is just not enough. Will most definitely be back here if I ever travel to NY again, and hell yes I will!! read more

Awesome restaurant, but w/ caveats Even after living in NYC for over 20 years and in Brooklyn for over a decade, I get surprised once in a while by a restaurant like Everett. It is not a big restaurant, and on the Friday that I went to celebrate a friend's birthday, it was not packed. But even if it was packed, I wouldn't feel cramped up like many Chinese restaurants that got so famous that they place tables what seem like mere inches away from each other. The tables are spaciously placed, and the wait staff won't have to squeeze in to refill your tea. As for complaints from other reviewers about slow service and smokers, we didn't see any smokers when we were there, and we would have left the restaurant w/o ordering if we did as we have a pregger in our group. As for the slow service, we didn't notice it as 1/2 our group was running late. Seriously, this is not Manhattan, you can't expect all your food to fly out at once. It was better for us that there service is a bit slow so that we got more time to chat as I haven't seen my friends in months, and we were only there for 2 1/2 hours. Now for the food, its amazing. The presentation for the fancier dishes are top notch for a Chinese restaurant. But every dish is so flavorful and cooked to perfection. The meat dishes are deliciously tender, and the vegetable dishes still retain their crunchiness even though they were "wokked" at very high heat. Here's what we ordered: Octopus - We ate this as an appetizer. The people that came late missed out on this dish, lol. I don't know how they made it so flavorful. Guesses are they chopped it up and let it marinate in its ink? Jellyfish - Standard fare for Chinese restaurants, although they didn't turn them into "strings" like most places do. They sliced them up instead. If you have not had jellyfish served this way before, the texture of each slice will BLOW YOUR MIND. Fresh shrimps in a broth served in bamboo chute - This looks impressive to start, but it tastes even better. The broth is excellent, with goji berries and other ingredients that I couldn't name. The shrimps are shrimps, but they taste as good as you can get them. Crystal Crab (Australian Snow Crab) - Delicious! Add some rice into the shell to soak up all the juices from the crab! Unbelievable! Chicken - Okay, this wasn't that good, but only because they tried too hard and infused a bit too much flavor. But my friends finished it so maybe Its not so bad. Conch w/ flat noodles - Wow! You know how like people hate the "fishiness" of salmon when it is cooked incorrectly. Well, there's plenty of "fishiness" in the noodles from the conch, but it tasted great! Maybe my taste buds are messed up after eating all these weird dishes in the past (lamb brains, snakes, etc.), but this was genuinely good. Its something that you would never think goes well together, but... it does. Cucumber(squash) w/ shredded dried scallops - okay, only because I had this elsewhere before. Beef Stomach Stew - So deliciously tender. Way more meat than tripe. I guess ppl that like tripe will not like this dish. Seafood mix (scallops, conch, some other stuff?) - the noodle dish was better bitter melon w/ dried shrimps - Okay. If you don't absolutely detest bitter melon, you will like this dish. The saltiness from the dried shrimps cuts the bitterness, and then when the bitterness pass, it tastes very refreshing. So simple to do, but I can't recall the last time that I had this dish made as good as this. Soy sauce seafood mix w/ lotus roots - there's a lot of squid in here, and the soy sauce definitely ups the flavor. But the lotus roots and the other veggies, which were cooked separately, cuts the saltiness and adds plenty of crunch. Chinese cabbage w/ red chilies - I guess this is a szechuan style dish? I haven't had this before but I also rarely go to Chinese szechuan restaurants. Taro paste - Okay. This totally reminds me of poi, but it is warm and way sweeter. Its really good. The only downside is the comp dessert soup taste bland after having this. Okay, so back to the caveat. Don't come here if you don't know how to speak Mandarin. As mentioned in previous reviews, the menu are in Chinese only and even then I feel you have to know what to order. Good thing we have someone that knows both when we went that day. read more

Food is delicious here. But be chill with your expectation of the environment. Expect to smell a little bit of cigarette smoke. But u wanted authentic didn't you? read more

this is one of many good fujian restaurants on 8th ave, the only problem is that they are all the same to me and nothing makes one particular restaurant stand out from the other if you go to a fujian restaurant, must have the family style dinner, they have a special for about $20 for 3 dishes of food that you can pick from a pretty decent size list and it comes with a soup, cannot beat that, but be sure you have a person in the group that is fujian and knows how to speak the language, you can probably get by with mandarin, but having someone in the group from fujian is better, they know more or less of what to order, the special for $20 really feeds 2 people this is one of the value eats in 8th ave, it won't put a hole in your pocket like the fancy places do be sure to bring cash as there aren't many restaurants on 8th ave that take something other than cash, would definitely come back here again read more

This place was horrible. I would never go there again! NYS laws have banned smoking in restaurants yet upon arrival I see 2 tables smoking up a storm with no smoking signs everywhere. The waiters all standing around as if nothing happened. This ISN'T CHINA! Absolutely unsanitary and unacceptable. We had a party of 10 ppl reserved and the waitress leads us to the basement in a tightly seated room where the chairs look all beat up and smelled like urine. The food was mediocre at best, drenched with sauce to cover up the taste of meat which was obviously not fresh. The proportions were small compared to the average dishes you normally get at a Chinese restaurant of the same price range. The chicken dish we ordered barely had any meat on it, just bones and the clams were very very small. The walnut shrimp dish was not fresh either. This is by far the worse Chinese restaurant I've been to and it is completely unsanitary. I would know what good or at least decent Chinese food taste like since I am Chinese myself. To top i off, the waitresses did not understand a word of English and couldn't get my friend a ginger ale. I want to give this a negative rating and I think the dept of health needs to shut it down! read more

I would have to totally agree with the previous two reviews of this place. It is secretly one of the best Chinese restaurants on this strip of restaurant row on Eighth Avenue. They do fresh seafood soo right. I'm not sure of their level of english proficiency, but they speak Mandarin and I don't but I always have someone there who can order for me. I usually order off the menu items (menu is not in English...huge bummer and hence a one star deduction) i usually order some stir fried clams in a reddish sauce, fried flounder, and duck. Bring along a friend who speaks their language and I guarantee this will be a lip smacking good time. read more

I am quite surprise at all the good reviews that this place has gotten. I admit, this is one of the easiest places to grab Chinese (fujinese to be exact) food late late at night ( and I'm talking 2 am or so they are still open). However my experiences eating at the store is never good. First off there are occasionally people who go there and smoke in the store even though there clearly is a sign saying no smoking! The waitresses at the store will not bother telling them to stop cause it is clearly a cultural thing but they will ask them to stop only if another customer complains about it. Secondly almost none of the workers actually speak fluent English and the English menu and Chinese menu are off in numbers. Me and my friends tried ordering a few meals by saying the numbers on the menu and when we got out stuff it was the wrong order. Might I add that we had to pay for the wrong order as well and they didn't bother taking it away from the table. Thirdly, the delivery guy is RUDE RUDE RuDE to the max. I mean he always calls and says he is outside when he is not, making me wait 10-15 mins outside for him. He also sometimes ask for tip when you don't give him enough. And sometimes he doesn't carry enough change -.-. Also if you don't know the difference between Chinese cuisine and fujinese cuisine, its that fujinese cuisine tends to use a lot of vinegar or red wine while cooking. I didn't know that and that was fault on my part but otherwise food is relatively okay. Most of the time I order beef and tofu over rice for late night snacks . That is the only reason I frequent this place, late night food. read more

Don't come here. With so many wonderful authentic Chinese restaurants from various regions in NYC there is no excuse for this abomination. I'm Chinese and I came in here with my friend who is Caucasian (but he is well versed in many different Asian foods) and I felt like they really gave us subpar food and service. We ordered a few things as we weren't that impressed with the menu but what really stood out (not in a good way) was the "seafood with sweet corn" entree which was $13. For that price I was expecting a fresh and plentiful mix of seafood but was dismayed to see what basically amounted to half a bag of frozen corn with a paltry sprinkling of tiny frozen shrimp and squid. This is the type of shrimp you'd use to fry rice with, not serve as an entree. With at least one fresh seafood market on every block in this neighborhood there is no excuse for such poor quality "seafood." It was honestly insulting to think I could have bought $13 worth of live shrimp from the market that would have been delicious and fresh. Instead I got 50 cents worth of corn and seasoning. The service was abysmal for us personally. They seated a family right up against us when half the restaurant was empty and proceeded to serve them an elaborate meal (lobster, clams, mussels...) before any of our food arrived even though we had ordered first. Their food looked a great deal better prepared and the ingredients looked fresh and top quality. It seemed like all the Chinese customers got preferential treatment as they were fussed over (the servers all went over to hand dish their portions out, give them rice without asking, etc...) while we had to wave someone down just to get an extra bowl to divide our soup between us (while the table next to us got bowls without asking AND a server portioned out their soup for them, again, without asking.) Oh, and we had to call the server over again for a spoon. Cause obviously when one asks for an extra bowl we certainly wouldn't want a spoon to go with it! And we never got any rice with our entrees which is standard even at your basic Chinese take out. Everyone else got rice brought out with their food. Again, without asking. I don't know if they aren't used to seeing non-natives (even though I am Chinese) eat at their restaurant but that is no excuse for such poor quality service and mediocre food. I seriously wished I had spent my money at my local Americanized Chinese takeout joint. The people there are nice, and the food might not be "authentic" but at least some care was put into it and they know the tiny frozen shrimp belong in the fried rice, not a $13 entree! read more

Very slow service. I waited half an hour for some fried dumplings. It's loud; there's people smoking everywhere and the waitresses have very bad attitudes. The food is mediocre and this is definitely not a place where you would like to bring your date or family to. read more

the food is just really mediocre. not a good restaurant to bring family or a hot date (or any date) - but if you are a smoker, then this is the perfect spot for you... read more

So happy to have found this place. We'd been going to Lucky Eight, which us very good; but Everett C & C is maybe better. Certainly the service is friendlier, and the kitchen is faster. We enjoyed a lovely meal which included razor clams in black bean sauce, stir fried monkfish ( they call it rock fish), and fresh abalone in brown sauce. Excellent! read more