New Wong Rest
“-Their duck and roasted pork are some of my favorites in Chinatown and that is in comparison to A LOT of Hong Kong and Cantonese style restaurants.”
“I only bought roast pork (Cha Xiao or Cha Seew, depending on your dialect), but was so impressed with it that I had to write this.”
“Definitely worth a try for authentic Chinese/Cantonese food if you're in the area.”
New Wong Rest
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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A sam bo fan order is probably the easiest rice dish to put together, yet there are many Chinese restaurants that can't get it done right. Sometimes when you're not looking, you'll get some of the worst chicken, duck or roast pork parts served over a large portion of rice.
The New Wong Restaurant probably makes the best sam bo fan. Pretending not to look, their meat carver chopped the best chicken and roast pork parts along with a freshly made fried egg. Veggies were also included with chopped ginger sauce and the right amount of rice.
New Wong may not be new but it's definitely old school serving Cantonese favorites like congee, wonton noodles soup and fried pan noodles.
The service is very good for a Chinese restaurant and the prices are reasonable as well.
One of my go-to, no frills Cantonese fast food joints.
Great for congee (rice porridge) paired with fried dough.
Beef chow fun has good 'wok hay' translates literally to wok/pan air and is certainly a dish you get often on the streets of Hong kong.
If you go early, definitely get the 'cheung fun' rice rolls either with beef or shrimp – one of the classic dim sum dishes done in a traditional way here.
Good place for Hong Kong style food. I highly recommend the Beef Lo Mein (Hong Kong style). Large portions of food.
My kids had the pork fried rice (also recommend) and the shrimp fried rice (very good).
Inexpensive and the manager is friendly. My waiter was a bit standoff-ish. But after a few smiles and me trying to kindly speak to her, she opened up and became friendly.
Stopped here for a quick lunch. Service was fast. Duck over rice was juicy comes with veggies and a small bowl of their broth to wash it down. Traditional HK style meals.
Prices were cheap and affordable.
They were also shooting a movie scene in here a couple months ago. This place seems pretty popular.
Stopped in for a late afternoon snack while walking around Chinatown. Got a minced beef congee and half a roast duck to share between the 3 of us. I'm used to the typical roast duck where it's usually greasier than other BBQ items, but this one was extra greasy, and extra salty. When we got the bill, we were charged $12 for half a duck! Take out was only $8 or $9, but it's $3 more for sit down. It didn't make sense to us, we could've gotten 2 roast duck over rice for cheaper with pretty much the same amount of meat with rice and veggies!
I'll lead with a bit of a digression, which I hope will be worth it.
There's a coffeeshop/bar on my Brooklyn block that's been under construction under more than a year. The new owners completed gutted the old Laundromat, installed leather couches and a circular bar and put up a huge portrait of the Notorious B.I.G.
They painted the outside jet black while preserving a small mural of a girl playing.
I know all this because I went to a private party there, eight months ago. The venue still hasn't opened. This is now the third spring I've hoped a bar would open on my corner. All of this makes me wonder, when I return back from another night out far from home, what would have happened if this place would have just focused on opening their doors rather than perfecting the internal décor.
The decorating budget at New Wong (not to be confused with Big Wong King, a more famous restaurant more centrally located in Chinatown that serves similar Cantonese fare) was somewhere between 50 and 75 cents. The pink formica tabletops and matching paint job are not from the last three decades.
But who cares? At New Wong, there's a bowl of wonton soup, with egg noodles and slices of char siu pork for under $5. It's ready in 5 minutes – perfect for a snack before hopping on the Yo! Bus to Philadelphia. The stop is just outside of the store and other cheap Chinatown buses are nearby.
The char siu gets a B+. It is not baked under a heat lamp, flavorless and tough like a piece of jerky. There are small pieces of fat, which mix with the sweetness of the pork to give it that unique flavor of Hong Kong. It is were a little more tender it would rank with the city's best pieces of pork.
The wontons are even better, with thin skins and even more pork. They are so good that it's almost possible to overlook that both times I've been here the noodles at the bottom of the bowl were a tad overcooked and too soft.
I hope they sort this noodle issue by the time of my next visit. But please, never change the walls.
Pink!! Why? I don't know. I forgot to ask.
I stumbled upon this place when Wing Shoon down the road, an old and reliable place for cooked meats, appeared to have died a terrible death.
I only bought roast pork (Cha Xiao or Cha Seew, depending on your dialect), but was so impressed with it that I had to write this. Ask for fattier pieces! It looked so good, I bought $20 worth.
It's better than normal Chinese take-out that I've tried. I normally hate eating Chinese food outside because it's so greasy. It's come to the point that I avoid eating Chinese food (even dim sum) when I'm out. But New Wong does a pretty good job on the typical Chinese take-out dishes that I typically run from. Their food isn't very oily and it's very affordable.
My family ordered dinner to go.
Pork Chop with Pickled Vegetables over Rice: (off menu)
I thought the pork chop was going to be pan-seared but it's actually fried. It's really good. We didn't eat it immediately, so I'm not sure if it was actually crispier, but they bread it. The breading got soggy, in a good way, because it soaked up the sauce. Plus they give a lot of pickled vegetables! They already cut the pork chop up for you and I wanna say there's about 4-5 decently sized chunks.
Beef Chow Mein:
It's thin Lo Mein. They filled it up, so there's a lot of noodles. It wasn't overly oily.
Scrambled Egg with Shrimp on Rice
They gave a lot of shrimp (we counted about 14) in this one dish. The shrimp is just boiled though and it's the frozen shrimp, lacked a lot of flavor. I'm not a fan of the taste. Also, the eggs are actually scrambled into the rice. I would have preferred if the eggs were separate from the rice because I lost the egg flavor that I really wanted.
There was a lot of food between 4 people and we ended up having so much left over. Two orders would have been enough between the 4 of us! Also, there might be a language barrier! We spoke to the workers in Cantonese, but they have menus that are written in English. So I'm sure they understand some English or you can just point at what you want.