New York Magazine

A lot of ramen around town can be disappointing. Not so at Ajisen.

A spotless, brightly lit bi-level restaurant where the kitchen turns out platters of elegantly sauced Cantonese dishes.

A lunchtime favorite among the courthouse crowd, with nightly karaoke and an Asian take on Italian fare.

Chinatown’s tasty straight-forward favorite, with an exhaustive menu and breakneck service, for nearly 30 years.

Friendly Cantonese for fork-wielding Americans in the tourist-clogged heart of Chinatown.

This standard banquet-style eatery's winning dishes are found in its Cantonese-style seafood selections.

Reliably tasty Vietnamese standards put Doyers ahead of the crowd.

Goose intestines and duck’s tongue share the menu with more familiar seafood and meat dishes at this Hong Kong-style spot.

Go elsewhere for mood lighting, but settle into this Chinatown staple if you crave down-home dumplings and other delicious standards.

Pickled mustard-jolted pork chops, noodles, and rice at unbeatable prices in a tiny Chinatown alley.

A bowl of these remarkably chewy but tender noodles, enhanced by a rich broth and everything from pork bone to beef tendon, costs only $4 to $6.50.

This bare-bones teahouse bustles nightly with Asian teens and college students clamoring for Taiwanese bubble tea and hangover helpers like peanut-butter toast and grease-filled dumplings.

The offshoot of the noodle shop that appreciates the value of a fast and furious feed.

This subterranean standby has been serving seafood-centered Cantonese cuisine to groups of locals, Filipino families, and (more recently) Lower East Side partygoers since 1968.

Ignore the dingy setting and grammatically ill-conceived name, and prepare to dig into mock-meat creations tasty enough to deceive the most tofu-resistant carnivores.

A favorite of generations of Chinatown families, HSF continues to serve up dim sum classics of a quality that puts its competitors to shame.

J.M.'s small plates are good, but they excel in wonton soup.

A gargantuan Chinatown banquet hall where the specialty is dim sum.

A spin-off of Joe's Shanghai, presumably to alleviate the hour wait for dumplings.

Busy dim sum in the heart of Chinatown.

Big bowls of Vietnamese-style soup for next to nothing.

Soup dumplings and strongly flavored scallion pancakes are among the standouts at this outstanding Chinatown hole-in-the-wall.

The menu has 140 items, but everything points to pho.

This place outdoes crowded New Green Bo, directly across the street, with terrific service, a talented kitchen, and beautifully presented dishes. Yeah, baby!

A Vietnamese-flavored retreat from the counterfeit chaos of Canal Street.