Been here quite a a few times now. I personally love their fish with tomato broth. The broth doesn't overkill the ingredients and it never disappoints when you have the craving something warm in a cold day. Overall, service is attentive. Ambiance is just okay. However, their food is immaculate! read more

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Went for lunch on a weekend and the place was not busy. A friend warned us that the regular sliced fish was not fresh so I ordered the House Signature Sauerkraut Flavor with the snakehead fish and the Fresh Mushroom Flavor with sliced beef. Huge portions. I was not able to finish one as it came with a big bowl of white rice. Very flavorful soup and left the restaurant extremely satisfied and with leftovers. Will definitely come back. Recommended! read more

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Ordered the fresh mushroom flavor soup with beef and the dry pot with fish (no spice). Comes with white rice. Even with no spice, I thought the dish still was delicious and flavorful. I love all the toppings that they come with. Portion size is pretty big too. The mushroom soup did look a little oily though, maybe it's from the beef. They should maybe cook that separately. Another thing I didn't enjoy while dining in there was the amount of little flies/gnats flying around me. It was distracting and I had to constantly shoo them away to prevent them from landing on my food. I don't remember having this prob the 2-3 previous times I dined in here. But this recent visit, the flies were a nuisance. read more

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Nai Brother opened another location on 86th Street. They serve rice noodle soup and dry pot, though the menu is pretty limited if you can't handle spice. I've picked up takeout here several times for both lunch and dinner. Their signature Chinese sauerkraut fish soup is solid. The fish is soft, served in a tangy, spicy broth. The marbled beef dry hot pot was also good. I requested it less spicy, but you still get that numbing kick from the Sichuan peppercorns. My usual non spicy go to is the mushroom fish pot, which has a rich, savory mushroom flavor. Portions are generous for the price, and the staff seems efficient. read more

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My best friend is absolutely obsessed with this spot for it's a sauerkraut fish. It's main items are sauerkraut fish, but it does have a spicy pot option similar to malatang. There's also options that have a mushroom base if you don't like fish. They also have little snacks and appetizers such as popcorn chicken There is usually no line for dine in and the food is always consistent and delicious. They also have options to select a size in case you want a larger portion or a smaller portion. Quick and delicious food, what more is there to ask for read more

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Good food with affordable pricing. The kimchi flavor is my personal favorite but the fish is sooo tender and soft. Love the glass noodles as the extra touch. Personally I can do with less of the chilli spice and more of a peppercorn numbing spice. The house signature flavor was more of that sour and spice combo which is what you expect from Szechuan fish with sour cabbage/ suan cai yu. However, both had good heat to them. The service was good and food came out fast. Restaurant was pretty empty when I went in with lots of seating. At the end, I was soo full but I still wanted to continue eating more! Both dishes were $28 which is good. read more

Nai Brother - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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Amazing portion size, fast service, and delicious. Great addition to the neighborhood. Favorites are the signature and golden soup base. Fish slices are good but I also enjoy the sliced beef. Great place to come with a group and try their sauerkraut soup-based dishes as well as their dry pot. read more

One of my favorite place on 86th to have saukrest fish . They added rice noodle on the menu and it was delicious in tomato broth. Broth was thick and we chose the marble beef. The flavor of this place is immaculate with different spice level. Service was quick and not really packed on weekends and weekdays. Even if it was the wait is not too long. read more

Nai Brother - Tomato rice noodle and golden special fish - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Casual spot with great sauerkraut fish and generous portions. Service is friendly and knowledgeable. An underrated neighborhood gem. read more

Nai Brother - Signature sauerkraut - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Decent spot overall, though some of the soups were hit or miss. The tomato soup tasted like it came straight out of a can, which I really didn't enjoy. On the other hand, the spicy beef dry pot and the sliced fish with mushroom soup were definitely much better and stood out more. read more

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3.5/5 Generous portions for the fish and add-ons (sooo much fatty beef) - the broth wasn't too pungent so I appreciated that. Pretty good, I wouldn't mind getting the pickled broth again. We had enough leftovers to even bring home. Intestines dry pot was flavorful, the pieces of intestines were on the softer side, but they didn't give too much of this. Saliva chicken - this is what ruined the meal for me haha, the sauce they poured on this was not good at all, not like the liquidy flavorful Sichuan chili oils usually used for this dish. It was goopy/thick? A cornstarch slurry sauce? Yikes. And weirdly sweet too read more

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Ordered the mixed mushroom soup with beef and the dry pot with fish (no spice). The mushroom soup one was 8.5/10, heavy mushroom flavor but was light and left you wanting more. It came with extra mushroom and cabbage topping as well. Only complaint is that the fat from the beef made the soup murky and oily. The dry fish with no spice was also really good but lacking some flavor, I'll give it 7.5/10. It's typical dry spice seasoning but I guess because I got no spice, it also lacked a little flavor punch that you normally get from dry pot. Overall, solid place, would come back to try their other flavors. Dishes came out quick and service is standard, no complaints. read more

Nai Brother - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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Very reasonable prices with huge portions and very flavorable dishes. Very attentive to customer. read more

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Great dinner spot around 86st! My husband and I have been here a few times and we enjoyed the food! Portions are huge and you will leave very full. My favorite is actually is the dry pot with fish, normally I'll have leftover for the next day. My husband likes the fish soups, we've tried a few (forgot the name of them but his favorite was the green one). It's a casual spot, we've been pretty lucky and get seated right away. read more

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86th street location -- Delicious food Even when we order takeout, the food comes hot & fresh! They don't skimp on the portions and it's always neatly packaged with a bowl of rice. Love it ! read more

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Great value! Huge portion... I could've saved half for another meal!! Every entree comes with a big bowl of rice so it's super filling! Very clean restaurant! Service is great! Attentive! read more

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This restaurant was a pleasant surprise. When my friend suggested we go here, I didn't think I would enjoy it. We arrived at 2:30pm on Sunday and the restaurant was packed. For a party of 6, we had to wait 10 minutes for a table. We ordered two dishes, seafood soup and dry pot. Both dishes were extremely spicy. It was a slow burn. I didn't feel my mouth numb until a minute or two later. The dish had one pepper symbol on the menu. I wonder how spicy the ones with two peppers. Overall, I enjoyed the dishes we had. Both of them were flavorful. The hostess and waitress were nice. read more

Nai Brother - Dry pot - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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I heard about a Bensonhurst outpost of Nai Brother recently opening from a family friend so I decided to stop by late Saturday evening for dinner. Even at 8:30pm, the restaurant was still packed, but we waited for about 10 minutes before we were seated. The restaurant chain specializes in a Sichuan dish called suan cai yu, or Chinese sauerkraut fish, which is a spicy and sour soup that traditionally comes with fish fillets, picked mustard greens (the sauerkraut), vegetables and seasoned with soy sauce, Sichuan peppercorns, and hot red peppers. At Nai Ge, there is a little more flexibility in the menu, with 11 different soup bases (all of which come with napa cabbage, bean sprouts, mung bean noodles, and tofu strips), four different protein choices (two types of fish and two types of beef), and 24 additional and optional items to add to your soup. As for the Sichuan dry pot, there are 6 different protein options (all of which include napa cabbage, wood ear mushrooms, Chinese sausages, and bean curd) and 26 additional and optional items to add to your stir fry. We ordered some marinated and chilled chicken feet ($5.45) to start with, and it was fairly well marinated and flavorful. We also ordered a single portion of the spicy beef pot ($13.95) with extra tofu puffs (+$3), a double portion of the House Signature soup with snakehead fish ($28.90), and a double portion of the tomato soup with sliced beef ($27.95) and with konjac noodles (+$2). Everything was generous in portion and quite delicious-- a single portion can feed 2-3 comfortably, so I would recommend the double portion only if you are extremely hungry or have a big appetite. We ended up bringing home a lot of leftovers. I personally enjoyed the tomato base best, which had a really rich and umami flavor that was surprisingly warming and well-balanced. Every dish comes with a bowl of rice, so be prepared to ladle spoonfuls of the soup into your rice for a delicious bite. The spicy beef dry pot was also quite good as the beef was very tender and the tofu puffs really soaked up all those spicy seasonings, which can be tricky to achieve. The house signature was not really my taste, but was well received by everyone else at the table and was quite strong in both the spicy and sour departments. Everyone was sweating by the end of the meal and we all ordered some herbal tea ($2 ea) to offset the heat. Overall, I thought this was a really fun and affordable addition to the neighborhood. They do not shy away from bold flavors here, but there are some dishes available for those sensitive to spice as well. I think this could be an excellent option to cater for large groups as most dishes are gluten-free and could be made to accommodate vegetarians as well. read more

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Came here on a Sunday around 11:30am. There were a few tables available but it filled up quickly. The seating at this restaurant is two rows of tables and an aisle to walk in and out. It gets tight if you have two tables leaving. Server just squeeze through you as you try to put on your coat to get out. There are signs on each side of the wall. The lighting on these signs just makes my eyes so uncomfortable, it hurts. We ordered the mushrooms broth with fish and spicy sour cabbage with fish. Mushroom broth was the only non-spicy option. We waited about 10 minutes for the two fish dish. The broths tasted like it has a lot of msg. The fish was good, it does not taste fishy at all. The spicy sour cabbage with fish was a disappointment. It tastes like they just pour the spicy broth over the sour cabbage and fish. read more

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I come here all the time, food is great. Get the stir fried noodles. Service is quick and pricing is great

The service was great. When you have a kid around, it really tests people's patience, and what can I say? These people definitely have patience. We stayed for a while and the staff was really nice to us. I enjoyed the broth, both of them. The tomato broth was thicker than I expected, but it was still pretty good. The fatty beef was super chewy, too chewy, like I was chewing gum but, of course, couldn't blow a bubble. My jaws were extremely tired of chewing, and I ended up just swallowing all of them without breaking them down fully. Guess my digestive system will have to try working overtime. My daughter also enjoyed the broth and the mushroom. read more

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I've seen this place around all the Chinatowns but never tried it until one finally came to Bensonhurst. Every weekend it would be packed with older Chinese people and I thought oh this must be the type of food my dad from the village would like, but after I tried it I realized that this place is just really good for its price, portion and taste. Me and my friends definitely cleaned all the broth after eating all the meats and vegetables it came with despite us knowing we'll be dehydrated from all the sodium afterwards. Each portion is pretty large and would feed about 2 people for $12-14 which is a hell of a good deal in 2024, highly recommend everyone to try this esp if you like hotpot which this is pretty similar to. read more

Nai Brother - Mushroom with fish, tomato with beef and hot/sour with beef slices - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

This sauerkraut fish restaurant is a chain that have multiple locations including one in 8th Avenue Brooklyn, and Flushing Queens. The place is not that big and bigger groups might have harder time to find settings for everyone if it gets busy. The service is friendly and maybe because the place is newly open as of this writing, the staff comes by every once in awhile to check up on us and ask us how the food was. Some of the food we tried: -Steamed soup Dumplings. Good soup and pork flavor but for the soup Dumplings it is thicker than some of the better places that serves this. - Sliced marble beef dry pot made not spicy. Considering we got this as not spicy, it was surprisingly flavorful. We had other places where we order mild or not spicy for dry pot and it is usually inferior to the spicy version. -sliced fish dry pot medium spicy. For mild spicy this was decently hot. I loved their version of this dry pot. A generous amount of fish was in the bowl. They seem to have fried the fish fish which gives it a nice firmer exterior but still moist soft fish meat inside. All the dry pots comes with your choice of protein and includes, chinese cabbage, seaweed, black fungus, dried bean curd, sausage, and a bowl of white rice. -tomato flavor sauerkraut fish. Didn't get to try this. The person that ordered this said it was OK. -house signature chainese sauerkraut flavor soup with sliced fish. If you like slightly spicy and you like sour flavor, this is a really food version of sauerkraut fish soup. It goes so well with the included rice. -fresh mushroom flavor soup with sliced fish. Good mushroom flavor if that is your thing. Overall the flavor is much more mellow and tame compared to the house signature version. It is also not spicy so it's good for those that could not take spicy food but might disappoint those that are seeking some heat. Not bad but for me the house signature is the one to get for my preference if I had to choose between the two. Overall I enjoyed the restaurant and is a welcome addition to the Bensonhurst neighborhood food scene. read more

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We went in on a Friday night and two of us cannot really finish two big bowl. I always like their fish slice original Nai Brother flavor. This is the first time I sat in their restaurant. I always do take out for many many times. The portion is so big and still taste good. No bone for fish at all. The restaurant is clean and quiet. Good place to sit, enjoy your food and also chat with your friends. read more

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My go to favorite comfort food. My favorite is the golden hot and sour because of the kick of spice. Love that you can add additional ingredients to our soup base and all the variety different soup base. Place gets crowd around 7pm. Staff are welcoming and nice. 10/10 recommend this place. Pictures are shown with double portions of sliced fish and extra additional ingredients. read more

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Eating at a place like Nai Brother requires all the diners to enjoy soups that are sour or spicy which could be difficult. I'll caveat first by saying I'm not a huge fan of these types of dishes myself hence my 3star-ok rating. Having dined here, I did find the menu limiting for people like myself although I enjoy the fish and sour soup mild spice. I didn't find too many options to be kid friendly which can also be challenging too. read more

Not that good - Sauerkraut fish? I thought I would try it! I went in and sat down, the place was noticeably quiet no background music, very plain, very few pictures on the wall. I asked the server what do you recommend, I have never been here before, what is one of your most popular dishes? Nobody in this place could speak english, so I went to yelp and picked what dishes seemed to be popular. I went with seafood soup and popcorn chicken. The seafood soup came with extraordinarily little fish in it. The fish looked like either basa or carp, but it was mostly a leafy vegetable in a not so tasty broth. It did not look like the dish on thier site either, . I ordered extra seaweed in the soup; it was the highlight of this soup. I didn't get that balance of spicy and sour their site descibed it as. Thank goodness I ordered the popcorn chicken, which was particularly good! The ambiance, lack of communication and food was just not there for me. It was a very bland, tasteless, not so memorable meal. I love Asian food, and I do not mean the fast-food chow mein places, the real places, but this one wasn't it. This must be the worst meals I have eaten on 86th Street this year. read more

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Authentic Chinese food with affordable price! The fish was so fresh and tasty! Highly recommend read more

Nai Brother - Green pepper fish - Chinese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

You can't go wrong at this place. I do have a feeling dishes are more spicy and hot than before but maybe it is just me.

I have been back here multiple times, the food is really delicious and authentic! especially their beef pot

This is an exciting new addition to the neighborhood! I'm probably not the most qualified person to give this a rating in terms of their sauerkraut fish since I don't like spicy or sour. However, they do have non spicy soup flavors which is much appreciated. For a type of cuisine that is well known for sour and spicy, their two non-spicy soup base is surprisingly well done. We got the single portion for the tomato soup base with fatty beef and seaweed and mushroom soup base with snakehead fish and pig intestine. I have to say that I really enjoyed the mushroom soup base. The fish were thinly sliced and silky smooth. Pig intestines were a surprisingly good match with the dish and had plenty as an add-on. In the mushroom soup base, there were also a variety of sliced mushrooms and cabbage. The tomato soup based is equally good and rich; it just really depends what you are in the mood for. There were plenty fatty beef in it and it also came with cabbage with mung bean noodles and tofu skin. Each single portion also comes with a bowl of rice and double portions come with two bowls of rice. I would say single portion is good for two people if you are looking to get appetizers and not want any leftovers. We also got the soup dumpling which was meh. The dumplings were steamed so close together that when you try to get a piece, they are stuck together and the wrappers break. Unless you are really craving for soup dumpling, I would advise to skip that. I also got a glass or plum juice. It's a rather small glass for $3.95 and it had a cherry flavor to it. They also have dry pots on their menu which I didn't get to try but am intrigued to do so in the future. Service is good although they seem a little disorganized. They had three people working the tables in a relatively small place and seem to forget the small things like getting newly seated customers their menu when you bring them to their table. But I believe this will all improve with time. Not a big deal. read more

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My parents raved about this place after coming themselves, so I finally went with them to try it. This should be the last in my series of Chinese fast casuals on 86st. There was a 30min wait Friday at 7:30. I remember passing by this place multiple times and it was often packed at night. Good for them. I just don't like waiting. The other problem is their ventilation. When my parents went, there was only two other tables. This time when it's full, it felt so stuffy inside. Since everyone was eating something brothy and piping hot, it felt suffocating to sit there. I like the bench seating but the physical space isn't enough to make up for the atmosphere. Also I absolutely hate it when I leave a restaurant smelly from fumes. I don't know why the problem never occurred to me a few years ago, but it's a huge concern nowadays. I ordered the mushroom broth with fatty beef. My parents got tomato broth with fatty beef and sour pickle pepper with snakehead fish. The mushroom broth was tasteless (in a good way?). The mushrooms inside were all very soft which shows they've been boiling for a while (good). The goji berries were plump and sweet too. Somehow my mouth tasted dry after eating this though. The menu is unclear but the mushroom broth doesn't come with bean sprouts, mung bean noodle, and tofu strips like the others (or maybe it does because I got two tiny pieces). The fatty beef was a smaller portion and fattier than when my parents tried it the week before. I understand the fat melts, but I must say the dish looks so unappetizing with the murky fatty liquid from mushrooms and beef. Portion is smaller than I'd like. I didn't feel satisfied walking out. The rice that comes with every dish is quite coarse and rough and dries quickly. Just because there's broth in the main dish doesn't mean you can give me dried out rice. I only tasted a sip of the tomato broth and it has the tartness with slightly more depth than Ten Second's. I won't say I like it but I'm not against trying it. Also I don't like the weight and shape of their spoons. It's heavy and inefficient. The employees mostly spoke Mandarin, and the guests mostly speak Cantonese. I'm going to straight up say language barrier is a legitimate issue for me. The discomfort sitting there, wait time, portion size, language barrier, food quality makes me feel this isn't worth going back. I'd rather go to Qing Shu which has a better non-spicy broth with more ingredients (relatively speaking I will tolerate their weird chairs). read more

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it's my second time here. I brought my friend here. I had a bowl of sour fish soup （青麻椒酸菜鱼，黑鱼）and it is very delicious(I had it last time)

I have wanted to try this place, which recently opened in our neighborhood, for a while and finally did, twice in one week. The first time we went we tried the mushroom broth with fish, one of only two choices that is not spicy, for two people. It was delicious and the portion was huge. We even had food left over to take home. We decided that the next time we would get two different broths in the one person portion so we could try the other flavors. During our next visit, we decided to get their signature sauerkraut flavor with fish and the tomato broth (the other non-spicy flavor) with beef. Even though I asked the waiter to make the sauerkraut flavor broth less spicy, it was still quite spicy. Overall, we like the place and the dishes that we've tried. We will definitely come back. read more

Great food. Provides good selections of their cuisine. good vibes, lots of seats. would visit often.

fish is super fresh service is attentive place looks clean and simple Place is pretty busy Food is out pretty fast Will go back again soon read more