Home > Restaurants >
- PROFILE
- READER REVIEWS
- MENU
Green Tea Café
45 Mott St.,
New York, NY 10013
|
|
Profile
This venue is closed.
This bare-bones teahouse bustles nightly with Asian teens and college students clamoring for Taiwanese bubble teas which, true to tradition, are made extra frothy from powdered nondairy creamer. Ask a waiter and she'll probably tell you that the accompanying snacks here are American, but even if triangulated toast glazed with peanut butter recall the treats of your suburban childhood, the menu's inclusion of fried fish balls and grease-filled dumplings dappled with peanuts prove the repertoire goes beyond a loose adaptation of comfort foods Asian parents make for their American-born offspring. The large, jumbled selection of oily fare served until midnight also makes ideal hangover helpers, especially the magic toast (French toast stuffed with ground pork squirted with multiple sauces) which admittedly sounds like an unimaginable order for someone sober. Whatever you order, sitting on one of the small stools at a dark teak table can be chalked up as a quintessential Chinatown experience complete with Chinese pop on the speakers.
Advertising
- Scientists ​Pretty Sure Humans Could Eat Food Grown in Martian Soil
- Another Restaurant Bites the Dust on Clinton Street
- A Talented Pastry Chef Will Open a New Bakery in the Rockaways
- This 3-D Food Printer Actually Makes Pizza So You Don’t Have To
- Bergen Hill Relocates to Noho With a Seafood-Heavy Menu
Popular Restaurant Guides
-
Where to Eat
Adam Platt picks 2014’s top dining destinations,
including the Elm, New York Sushi Ko, and Lafayette. -
Best of New York Food
The best that the city’s restaurants have to offer:
roast chicken, gnocchi, ramen, and more. -
The Cheap List
We live in a city full of small cheap-eats miracles,
including pork buns, Asian hipster grub, and pizza.