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Yang Guo Fu Malatang

4.5 (115 reviews)
ModerateChinese, Soup
Open 10:00 am - 10:15 pm
Updated 3 months ago

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Hayden S.

This place SLAPS! It's a little sketchy inside but the food is so good. You pick your own food for the bowl and then they cook it. It gets pricey quickly is the only thing. I got the dry Mala and it so good. Favorite dinner spot near MSG

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Wendy W.

Solid malatang/dry pot place! Lots of freedom to customize exactly what ingredients and all - I will say I wish the spice flavor here was more complex and not just chili oil. Nonetheless, still a great spot for a quick bite to satisfy that the craving

Iberian Ham soup dumplings
Haley H.

These ham soup dumplings were SO good. They also came out fast and fresh I just wish you got more than 4 for $8

Damian X.

A decent spot for quick hotpot, but definitely has room for improvement. Ambience (2/5): The place didn't feel that clean; tables and sauce station could use better upkeep. Food (3/5): The broth and toppings were fine but nothing standout -- flavors felt a bit muted compared to other mala tang spots Value (3/5): Slightly expensive for the portion size, especially since the quality doesn't fully match the price.

Beef bone broth 經典骨湯
Matthew H.

Finally had the chance to try this chain of mala tang restaurants (I think there are a few locations in NYC already). As usual the ingredients are all self-serve, and I was impressed with the variety of different veggies, noodles, fish balls, and meats that they offered. It was a pleasant surprise how yummy the meats were in particular. There are a few choices of broths to get -- I was able to try the beef bone broth 經典骨湯 and the fish maw & chicken 花膠雞湯. Both were delicious. I loved the rich aroma of the bone broth, and I thought the fish/chicken soup base added nice depth to the meats. Price point is great ($15.99/lb) -- I got around 1.1 pounds which was a perfect amount of food.  Very happy I had the chance to stop by and will definitely try to come back soon!

Melissa S.

Why did it take me so long to try YGF? This place is a gem! The restaurant is spacious, clean, and incredibly well-organized. I was impressed by the wide selection of fresh vegetables, proteins, and carbs -- all customizable with your choice of soup or dry base for $16.99/lb. It's easy to get carried away with so many delicious options! My bowl came out to exactly a pound, and it was totally worth it. Flavorful, satisfying, and fun to build -- I'm definitely coming back for more!

Extra spicy pork bone broth
Jamie H.

This location was very big and spacious - there was no problem getting a seat around 6PM and it's a self serve setup. There were lots of ingredients to choose from for the malatang which I appreciated, but unfortunately the meal did not come with a bowl of rice. Be sure to get enough noodles in your ingredients bowl! There was a deal to get a $2.99 drink or dessert/appetizer with an order of $20 and over so my partner and I were able to get 2 things extra which was great. My partner ordered the fish maw broth and I ordered the exrra spicy pork bone broth - note that if you enjoy spice, extra spicy is not killer spicy but still savory. I personally enjoyed the spicy broth over fish maw! Staff were overall friendly and service was quick. While I wish the meal came with rice, overall it fulfilled our spice craving. I would definitely stop by if I have a craving again and I'm in the area!

Herbal beef bone broth
Alan T.

Exceeded expectations! It's pretty much a self-serve place (think buffet style). You grab a bowl + tong and then go pick up whatever food you like. They have most of the usual food you expect for a hot pot and a decent variety of protein - lamb, pork, beef, fish etc. I got the herbal bone beef broth, and the soup was pretty flavorful. Would definitely want to try the tomato broth next time! They also do give out free water which is much appreciated. But can easily be missed if not specifically paying attention to the water fountain

Soup dumplings from the Ling Long kiosk inside
Lailah J.

Manhattan, NY (midtown west) - this weather is perfect for a hot bowl of soup, and YGF malatang is just what I crave. It's like a hot pot, but cooked for you. This is the second location in NYC (the first is in the East Village) and opened in September 2024. Pick up a large bowl and tongs, select the items you want for your soup from a long station of ingredients ($15.99/lb), choose a soup base or the sesame paste sauce, spice level, and they'll buzz you when your order is ready. The Ingredients are good and fresh, with pretty much everything you'd want. My favorite is the classic herbal beef bone broth, extra spicy. The mala chili flavor is on point. There is a separate area where you can order Ling Long soup dumplings and a few other dim sum dishes from a self-serve kiosk - the xiaolongbao is quite good! They are are even available in different flavors like truffle, crab meat, shrimp, chicken, salted egg, iberico ham, and spinach mushroom. It's all very quick and easy, and the space is clean. The staff are nice and cool, and the music is hip. Now if they can just add dry pot and boba tea too, I'd be here all the time!

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Hannah L.

First time having malatang and it hit the spottttt after a night out. Came upon opening on a Sunday morning and it was empty. Clean Grabbed a clean bowl and tongs, fresh out the dishwasher, and picked out a selection of veggies, mushrooms, and meats. Because it's weight based, meats are more bang for your buck than denser choices, like fishballs. Came out to $15 worth of food which was more than enough for me. There's also an included sauce bar with a wide variety (peanut sauce, green onion, chili oils) and a self-serve water station. Got the bone broth at very spicy. Maybe not the best choice for my first meal of the day, but it's not numbing like I expected, and definitely not as spicy as I'd like. Still yummy tho, and I'd def come back

Kailyn L.

This is a quick casual place if you are craving some Malatang, or Chinese spicy numbing hotpot. After walking in, you get a bowl and can add whatever ingredients you'd like. There's a variety of fresh ingredients to choose from, including vegetables, frozen fish balls, seafood, and various cuts of meats. I tried the beef bone broth, which was super flavorful. You can adjust the spiciness level according to your liking. The service is quick and the inside is clean.

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Caelan V.

Super clean and great place for a meal! The staff were very nice and the food was great, definitely would come back!

Kathy W.

YGF Malatang is a one-of-kind hotpot where you pick your own ingredients and they heat it up for you in a large bowl with mala spices! They have a wide selection of ingredients. I had their recommended herbal and beef bone broth, and the spice level was just perfect. It gives food court vibes and it's spacious and clean. I like how easy and convenient they make hotpot to be if you're just going for a quick meal.

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2 months ago

the food was really good and the service was amazing! there's also a lot of seating, would recommend this for friend groups

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Loved it a ton. Such good fresh ingredients. Get the classic bone broth. It's very good.

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Loved the selection and food options here! Really delicious diy hot pot and plenty of seating. Thank u for a great experience

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really good Malayan food. I like the food and the yogurt is good too. I also like the environment

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Excellent Dumpling House

4.1(871 reviews)
0.6 miChelsea
$$

As the name implies, it really is an excellent dumpling house!…read more Me and my buddies were in Jersey and New York for some hockey games, and wanted to go to a deli, get some Chinese food, and a slice of pizza. Got off the E train and when we looked for Chinese food, this place popped up with good reviews and it was just a short walk from where we got off the train. My buddies ordered the special lunches and we also got two types of xlb's, beef chow fun, and some fried dumplings. The special lunches come with a little fried rice, cold garlic flavored noodle, choice of egg drop or hot and sour soup, and main side. My buddies all enjoyed their meals. The beef chow fun was also really good and beef was nice and tender. The xiao long baos were excellent and is comparable to any place in California like DTF. Nice and juicy and great with some ginger, soy sauce, and spicy chili. Friendly service and food comes out pretty quickly. Credit card is accepted. Bathroom was also very clean, which is sometimes rare in some Chinese restaurants I have been to. If you're looking for a good Chinese meal, stop here when you're in the Chelsea area.

I've been looking for a place open late-ish to get food in Chelsea now that the Malibu Diner is…read moresadly gone. I hadn't been to EDH in a while and was happy to see they do have later hours (with a smaller late night menu). The place was pretty busy at 10:00 PM last Saturday, with a wide range of diners, which is good for business. The food though, at least that night, was really disappointing. My friend had the chicken dumplings. He said they were okay. I thought they were overcooked. My steamed shrimp shumai were fine, but steamed, they didn't have much flavour. The edamame, on the other hand, had way too much when it should have almost none. I don't know if it was excess salt, MSG or something else, but not good. I should have sent them back. I hope this was just an off night for the kitchen.

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Buddakan

4.1(4.9k reviews)
1.0 miMeatpacking District, Chelsea
$$$$

Ambiance beautiful sat by Buddha wall, food was amazing had edamame dumplings, tuna tartare spring…read morerolls, Cantonese spring rolls, general tso dumplings, chili rock shrimp, Cantonese steamed sole, tangerine chicken, sweet & crispy jumbo shrimp, black pepper beef, Asian stir fry, garlic fried rice and dessert selections of pastries Family style to accommodate the party size Everyone was very well fed. Food was delish Servers were very pleasant Drinks r great

The quality of the food, particularly the desserts, was relatively good. We did the tasting menu…read morenumber 2 and particularly enjoyed the rock shrimp appetizer and the black pepper beef entree as well as the dessert sampler. The pacing of the meal for the quantity of food received seemed very rushed, and we didn't really have a chance to relax and enjoy any of the courses. However, the quality of the experience was a complete disaster particularly for the price. Clearly, the packed restaurant would disagree, but for the four of us anyway, we would not return. It started with the check in process at what felt like a long hotel front desk with multiple, self important hosts and hostesses overseeing your entrance to the cavernous bar/waiting area. One problem is the noise is so deafening that you can't really hear what they say to you but we check in a few minutes early and waited obediently in the bar area chatting. After about 30 minutes (15 after our reservation time), and watching numerous parties large and small who arrived after us be seated by the hostesses wandering through the dimly lit space who peer quizzically and ask your name, my husband went to ask for an update. (We joked that those vibrating lighted buzzers alerting when your table was ready would have been super helpful, but it was amusing to watch while we waited). It was clear they somehow lost track of us as she had him repeatedly spell our (not unusual) name. Anyway, after that, within 10 minutes after that we were taken downstairs to our seats (but not before standing awkwardly in the large dining area near packed tables waiting while our table was cleaned). Server with a heavy accent was kind and mostly helpful so none of this is on him. The busser who managed to spill half a pitcher of cold water on my husband's back, soaking his shirt and jacket and barely apologizing, is a whole other story. We managed to get a glass of his mediocre Cabernet comped for the experience. If I sound annoyed, I guess I still am. I had high hopes for a fun and tasty experience in a cool part of the city and it just wasn't.

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Chop Shop

Chop Shop

3.8(286 reviews)
0.7 miChelsea
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File under "Don't Judge a Book By Its Cover" - because you'd never even realize this was a…read morerestaurant when walking by and even after you knew... you might be inclined to keep walking to find something a bit more 'bright' and 'inviting'.  (And you'd totally miss out on a great little joint.) I'm a lower middle-class Jersey guy - what the heck do I know about cocktails?  But I dove right into one ("Jade Collins") and it was firing on all cylinders.  Crisp, clean, strong enough to knock over an ox. Then we got a handful of apps - everyone else swore by all the ones they'd had - but I just tried the Salt & Pepper Shrimp and... sweet baby Jesus, this little plate had a wicked amount of flavor from every angle.  "Aggressively seasoned" might be an understatement.  Wild. Onto the mains and I ventured towards their Spicy Drunken Noodle (my go-to whenever I'm hitting a Thai restaurant on my home turf) and... yeah, you probably guessed it - incredible. Not the biggest portion but they made every single component sing with flavor. With so much going on - of course I needed to indulge with another drink (hey, I wasn't driving!). There were six of us, it came to about $100 a person... welcome to NYC. But we did get a wide selection of plates/food and those two drinks accounted for about $40 of my tab. (And you'll never see such a heavy wine pour at a restaurant... they filled the glass almost to the rim - which was not even something I'd do for myself when I'm home.) Definitely recommended.

Absolutely delicious! Gorgeous fresh ingredients, super friendly and prompt service. We had the…read moredrunken noodle and the coconut curry. Both were 10/10. Can't wait to have it again!

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Philippe Chow

4.0(303 reviews)
1.0 miChelsea
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Yeah Id say that was a pretty splendid meal. Shared everything thank goodness…read more Started with the wok fried beef dumplings which were good on their own but had this fire ahh spicy honey mustard wow. Then the scallion pancakes which were crispy and airy paired with this very interesting sauce that was clear but tasted like sweet and sour sauce. For mains we got Kung Pao Chicken which was pretty delicious but my star of the show was the Crispy Beef. It was crispy asf and skinny too I didn't know you could make beef skinny like that. Sauce was super tasty and thick. On the side was broccoli which was fine and eggplant which was fine on its own and good with the chili sauce. Split the Fortune Cookie Red Velvet Cake which okay I thought there would be more creativity with adding fortune cookies somewhere in the cake but it was just a cake with fortune cookies on top. Also they put 2 when we had 4 people like lowkey they couldve just put 2 more on there but anyways the cake itself was pretty tasty so can't complain there.

Philippe Chow is why Yelp exists. You would otherwise never know that this upscale Chinese…read moreRestaurant blasts club music and mandates 20% gratuities. The food is all over the place but the main theme is that everything is over-seasoned to please the crowd of people who all were gulping down colorful sugary cocktails with dinner while wearing athletic clothing. Peking duck (for 4-5) had great accompaniments (rare to actually get bao with it) but it was a lackluster portion of duck. Salt and pepper shrimp were offensively salted. Special "mignon" was great. The hand-pulled noodles *gasp* weren't hand pulled. "BBQ" chicken in the other noodles was very dry. Sea bass portion was very small. Scallion pancakes were good. Shrimp dumplings were the highlight. I recommend skipping this restaurant.

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Maine Lobster: ginger scallion sauce

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Chi Restaurant & Bar - We now open for late night hours. Every Tues - Sat until 1 am

Chi Restaurant & Bar

4.6(665 reviews)
0.3 miMidtown West, Hell's Kitchen
$$
Private events
Takes reservations

Four of us had dinner at Chi recently. The food was mostly good. But... when I first made the…read morereservation about two weeks prior to our coming, I requested the back dining room. I was told that it isn't always open, but if it was, I could certainly have a table there. When we arrived on the night of our dinner, I asked about the back room and was told that it was closed. And indeed, there was a rope up separating it from the front dining room. There was a table of people sitting there, but I was told that was management having a meeting. I asked when the room might be opened because we were willing to wait. I was told that there was no way for them to know. The front room was already full, by the way, except for the table that we seated at. Within 10 minutes, the back room opened and people started to go in. When I asked about this, I was told that it was a private party. About a half hour later I got up to use the restroom and had a look in the back. They were people seated at tables all around the room. It was obvious that none of them knew each other. It wasn't a private party. I didn't bother to ask about this because at that point appetizers had arrived and it was too late to move to another table. I was very baffled by the staff's reluctance to seat us at a requested table, which would've been very easy to do. As a result, I don't think I'll be coming back to Chi or recommending it to friends. I wrote to them about the experience, hoping for a possible explanation. Over a week has gone by and I've gotten no response. I'm done with these folks.

Delicious!! Just ate here for my birthday weekend, I loved the vibe of the place and the waiters…read morewere very kind and polite. We got spring rolls, orange chicken, and truffle beef. Everything was super tasty and flavorful. The orange chicken tasted a lot like orange and the truffle beef was not overwhelmingly truffle flavored. Amazing experience, would definitely recommend to anyone.

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