Fu Zhou Wei Zhong Wei Jia Xiang Feng Wei
“However, I'm not sure if there is elevator access to get down to the basement/downstairs area.”
“My go to order is always a rack of xiao long bao (meat filled buns that my white friends go ape shit over), peanut sesame noodles, and fuzhou style wonton soup (bian rou).”
Fu Zhou Wei Zhong Wei Jia Xiang Feng Wei
Take-out: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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A ludicrous location even by Chinatown standards, a journey to Fuzhou Wei Zhong Wei requires descending stairs next to a frequently unplugged escalator and past stalls dedicated to striped pajamas, mismatched wraps and ladies pant suit sets and a Mandarian-speaking law shop.
When I visited the ratio of customers to people cooking or assembling raw dumplings was 4:1. And there were two customers, so that actually meant a medium-sized family was sprawled over three separate rooms (including a couple empty chairs) putting together meals for the surrounding community.
This has to be a primarily frozen dumpling operation, because there's no way the ten tables or so could handle the volume of meat I saw being put to work. There's also the matter of the subterranean location meaning there's no foot traffic, the complete lack of an English menu and Chinese signage with so many revisions it's hard to tell what might be available.
Don't overthink things. Get the dumplings. Confusingly labelled as "xiao long bao" on the menu, these are basically Shanghaiese shengjian mantou (sometimes called shengjian bao) What they are doing in a clearly Fujianese establishment, I'm not sure.
Again, don't overthink it. If you've descended this far into the basement, get what everyone else is having – or making.
If you want the real Chinese experience this is pretty much the place to go. Instead of hole in the wall placces you got down in the ground with this place. Located in the basement of 88 Palace dim sum place is Fuzhou Wei Zhong Wei.
At first I wasn't even sure if this place was the right name for this place since it's so "out of sight" I'm not even sure if City even knows about this place because I definitely do not see a sanitary grade posted anywhere..
This restaurant sells straight up Fuzhou cuisine in the random empty space next to some store partitions with a few tables scattered across and three long cafeteria style tables where you sit across from random people.
In all this place sells solid FJ food at fast speeds for cheap.
PROTIP: The "xiao long bao" they offer is more of a bun type than dumpling type and to complete the full Chinese experience you don't have to tip.
A little fujianese restaurant in the basement of the east broadway mall. It serves standard fujianese cuisine. They have a nice shanghaiese pork bun. They also sell it by the frozen bag of 50 buns for $20.
This used to be a lot smaller back 10 years ago and now they seem to have expanded their basement business quite a bit.
This little treasure buried in the basement (in the back) of a three story mall has some of the best dumplings I've ever eaten and you can get a massive plate of eight of them for a mere $3.00 filled with succulent pork, greens and broth. This is not a place where Westerners come to dine. Everyone here is either working in the building or is Chinese, this I'm pretty sure of. Very friendly, some seem surprised by my presence, but happy (or so I think) to see someone with the common sense to eat where the food is simply wonderful! Good luck ordering but the menu is in Chinese and English. Like many area restaurants, your waitstaff may not speak English.
So good I think it needs to be on Yelp but I'm guessing its been here for years. You won't find this one by mistake. I've now eaten here three times and have seen the dumplings being made by elderly women off to one side of the restaurant. Mouth watering, undeniably fresh and tender, this is a food adventurer's paradise, dream find. I go here every year when I'm in the city and will return again. They also have Ramen, a wide variety of soups and various noodle dishes but it's the dumplings that keep me returning.
Seating is very informal. This is a place to get something to eat, not a date destination but who cares, the food is wonderful!