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    New Chinatown Restaurant

    3.7 (59 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Closed 10:00 am - 10:00 pm

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    Lychee ribs and taro
    Amy L.

    This restaurant specializes in traditional fuzhou (southern area) Chinese food. We tried quite a few of their dishes and they were all pretty solid. I'll try to remember what we ordered since it was a while ago, but here it is. We got the fried taro cake, clams in a black bean sauce, peanut noodles (a classic), wonton soup, dumplings, and lychee flavored fried ribs and taro (I think). The wontons are the classic southern version that are very small with a super thin wrapper. My favorite was the fried ribs and taro in a lychee sauce, they didn't taste too much like lychee it was just a sauce on the sweeter side. It's a small family business with a decent number of seats. Service is good and I asked for some recommendations from our server.

    House fried rice
    Devante B.

    Nice affordable great service great tasting restaurant in the heart of Chinatown. I loved the potstickers and the fried rice. Small restaurant but g big flavors and friendly faces. Lots of menus of the wall, lots of options to choose from, and everything comes pretty fast! Come eat

    Rice flour cake soup, fuzhou style wonton (bian rou), cold style noodle (ban mian), fried taro cake
    Annie C.

    New Chinatown Restaurant in Chicago offers a unique dining experience by catering to both American Chinese and Fuzhounese cuisines. As a second-generation Fuzhounese, I have a deep appreciation for this establishment's efforts to introduce lesser-known flavors to the city. My initial visit to the restaurant was a nostalgic experience, as the flavors transported me back to cherished moments of dining with my family. My go-to order from the Fuzhounese menu is a combination of ban mian, bian rou, and fried taro cake. This is a common breakfast meal that many people order from their neighborhood eatery in Fuzhou, China. I often get this order to-go, and eat from the comfort of my home in the mornings/early afternoons. Whether dining in, or taking to-go, the quality and taste is always the same, and does a great job of capturing the essence of my second home. While the Fuzhounese cuisine at New Chinatown might not reach the same level of authenticity as the renowned Fuzhounese restaurants in Flushing, Queens, NYC, known for their Little Fuzhou and various Fuzhounese eateries, it remains the best and only option in Chicago. That being said, I HIGHLY recommend for anyone seeking an authentic or exploratory Chinese dining experience to check this place out. Support your local Chinese restaurants!

    Vegetable Rolls
    Steve A.

    Basic looking places like this are all around Chinatown. It's a tiny ass restaurant with only a few tables inside. New Chinatown has a pretty small selection on the menu. Few vegetarian choices let alone vegan, so that's a disappointment. This is good for those needing takeout. After making plans for a pot luck, I needed something to bring. I was around here and came in. This isn't somewhere typical for me because of the lack of vegan options. However, this food was for other people, so it was good enough. They only have a few vegetarian choices, including the Vegetable Rolls. It's $4 for a few. These looked crispy on the outside, and held up well until they were eaten by guests. Good replies on the flavor. They seemed to be popular. Chinatown has a lot of these dinky ass places, some good and others which are bad. In this instance it's more good. There's not a whole lot that doesn't have beef, chicken, or seafood, but if you're looking for cheap, then here you can find stuff.

    Soup dumplings
    Brittany L.

    Man.. we came to get some soup dumplings and this is what came out. It was sweet and chewy and weird. It had hot ass peanuts inside and it smelt like bubblegum. The noodles were supposed to be hand pulled and the whole thing tasted like packaged ramen. The tea was pitiful. I think the noodles were spaghetti but the broth was good. Oxtail wasn't even oxtail. It was super dry. There's so much more food to eat in Chinatown I wouldn't even try it. Never coming here again.

    "Soup dumplings" on the menu. Not real soup dumplings that you would think
    Courtney L.

    We came here thinking we'd find soup dumplings but this isn't it. I will say the worker did try to tell us by saying "Sweet" and we got them anyway. Just wasn't what we were expecting. The dish was actually okay itself. It smelt like bubblegum which was offsetting. The oxtail noodles was basically small little ox tail bones and spaghetti...

    Fujian moon cake from C & Y bakery also available for purchase along with other baked treats
    Elvin C.

    New Chinatown Restaurant now validates the Central Parking System Chinatown lot for $2 per 3 hours. Note closed on Friday. Fujian mooncakes and other bakery items available for purchase.

    Jalapeño Stir-Fried Pork Intestine
    L L.

    I love their Jalapeño Stir-Fried Pork Intestines. This is my favorite dish served with white rice. Their soups are very good and I keep meaning to try their hand-pulled noodle soups. It's not fancy and they have a small dining area, but I recommend trying their Fuzhou style cuisine.

    used cigaritte filter in their food

    I found used cigaritte filter in their takeout food and I'm still feeling disgusting right now. The didn't even admit it and said it a type of food. They stopped reply after I asked them to eat it. DO NOT EAT THERE!!!

    Zac K.

    Authentic Chinese in Chinatown. We got two ribs entrees, soup, and clams. The black bean sauce was AMAZING on the clams. The soup was also very good, has a garlicky flavor. highly recommend this place.

    Penguiny2001 H.

    Since my parents are from Fuzhou I may be biased but their food is amazing! The green beans are not overly salty like most Chinese restaurants, and the rice cake flour soup is a must. Often Chinese restaurants put too much oil or the dishes are just too salty. This restaurant does is just the opposite, meaning not too much salt and not too much oil. The waitress was really nice and it was not terribly busy so food came relatively fast. If you need to a place to eat in Chinatown, this restaurant is the place to go.

    New name and menu?
    Maria L.

    This restaurant is now called New Chinatown Restaurant and has Northern style Chinese food in addition to their regular menu. My parents are from Northern China so they are always on the hunt for new restaurants that advertise as 'Northern' style. When we got here on a Sunday afternoon, we had low expectations since the restaurant is pretty dingy and a surly Chinese teenager was our waitress. However, we found the menu to be pretty expansive and the food was pretty authentic/homey mom cooked feeling! Also, the prices are extremely reasonable along with portion size. Will definitely be back to try out some other dishes!

    taro cake
    Emily H.

    This restaurant has opened for more than a year now and we walked by there multiple times when we were heading to other restaurants in Chinatown and never for once thought of dropping by here. The reason is that the sign looked like those restaurant catered more to either people who do not know what authentic Chinese food is, and it does not look very modern and most of the young people would not think of taking their friends here. After being told by a friend that this is the only Fujian-style restaurant in Chicago, we decided to drop by. It is actually surprisingly good. It is very authentic, really recommend any of the dishes in the first section of the manuals, those are all authentic street eats in the Fujian region of China. The taro cake is well cooked, not too oily, with a lot of taro inside (instead of just heavily battered, but not much stuffing). the battered had a bit of those chinese pepper salt on it, compliments the taro inside quite well. The rice noodle with oyster in there is quite good too. Despite the look of the restaurant, all the food there are quite authentic. Worth a visit!

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