Sun Hing Lung Co
“It takes a minute but the rice rolls come out super soft and ready for the peanut sauce, hoisin, and sriracha laid out that you must pile on.”
“Drizzle on some of that peanut sauce and spicy hot sauce, add some scallions, and it is the perfect street food.”
“The Cheung funs happened to be done to my likings–they weren't too mushy nor did they stick to my teeth like some in other shops.”
Sun Hing Lung Co
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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Delicious, fresh, and dirt CHEAP rice rolls!!! $1.50 per serving and it is made right in front of you. The lady serving me was really sweet and quick with my order of dried shrimp rice rolls. I would definitely come back for a quick meal. There are 3-4 different sauces offered to drizzle over your rolls. I prefer just soy sauce. I grabbed this to go for breakfast before heading for a flight home, and it was boxed perfectly.
Lady behind the counter could be a distant relative. This is like old school, badass Chinese grandma's food.
Unfortunately, I don't speak Cantonese, but a guy who was ordering in front of me helped out after my fifth attempt at enunciating "dried shrimp rice roll, please!" So come with a Canto buddy if possible. If not, be prepared to point and do some charades.
It's kind of on the outskirt of what most people consider the heart of Chinatown. Sun Hing Lung is in a residential area near the Manhattan Bridge. Well worth the detour if you're craving some rice rolls. Drizzle on some of that peanut sauce and spicy hot sauce, add some scallions, and it is the perfect street food.
Perhaps it's the nostalgia of my dad taking me to a rice roll (cheung fun) stand in Hong Kong, this experience definitely enhanced my love for cheung fun.
This part of town is a bit harder to get to but I swear it's worth it. Come on a good day and you can even dine on the little ledge and have conversations with the other patrons in line.
For only $1.5 you get to witness a master making you fresh rice roll, I picked dried shrimp and she asked me if I wanted green onions, she then sprinkle them on like fairy dusts.
'Is there peanut sauce?' I asked.
'Yeah it's here… is this your first time here? If you are eating here I can do the sauce for you.'
She then first squeeze soy sauce on the take out container, put on the freshly made rice roll, and proceed to add more soy sauce on top, along side with peanut sauce, and hoi sin sauce.
'Here you go,' as she put it in front of me on the window ledge.
The next 10 minutes as I savor the cheung fun will be forever embedded in my memory. I will remember the glistening sauce, the freshness and chewiness of the just made cheung fun, the charming and helpful lady chef, the people on the street with their envy eyes and whispers.
Located near the bridge is this small dingy place in East Broadway. I was around the area and made it in time before they stopped making the rice noodles. They stop selling at 3:30pm everyday. The rice noodles were made to order fresh. I like that there's many types of rice noodles to order from, whether it be beef, pork, corn, veggies or fishballs. I got the rice noodles with fish balls and egg. The egg was an additional charge of $0.50. The noodles were kind of liquidity. I actually prefer it to be more dense and glutinous. The fishballs were cut in half to be made with the rice noodles. I wished they were the whole fish balls that I'm used to. I've had better. But it's not bad for a quick simple snack for $2.00.
This place is as authentic as it gets, with the old school drawer style of steamed rice rolls. Seriously, if you've never had this style of steamed rice roll, you gotta try it. Forget dim sum
Bottom line:
-cheap and tasty
-if you don't know chinese, you may feel awkward here
-it looks a little ghetto
-taste is spot on, price can't be beat, highly recommend you come here. The steamed rice roll experience here is even more authentic than dim sum places.
Perfectly made rice rolls and all fresh to the order. The Cheung Fun here are one of a kind, you'll be hard pressed to find another place that makes them this well and at such prices.
This isn't a restaurant but a food supply warehouse of sorts which sells only a handful of cooked items. Don't come here expecting a seat but if you're craving good rice rolls this is the place to visit.
Dirt cheap and hard to find… two of the most important criteria when vying for hole in the wall status. This place delivers on both fronts.
Needing a break from my typical Chinatown dumpling excursions, I found myself in quite an involved Yelp search for something a bit further than the Chinatown outskirts hugging the Civic Center. An intriguing 4.5 star rating attached to a very clumsily developed moniker generated nothing but question marks in the brain pan of yours truly. The most important question was "what do they serve there???"
A brief educational read from the relatively scant selection of reviews prompted my trip to check out the joint. It's a window on the side the first floor facade of 58 Henry, with a door that leads to a counter with a 5-6 layer steamer and with a horror movie-style kitchen in the back (with no seats… so take your food and go).
Everyone in line was a native speaker, so I didn't understand a word. The counter lady said a lot of words that might as well have been binary, to which I responded, "a pork rice roll and a dried shrimp rice roll." She looked a bit surprised (judging from the shape of my eyes, she half expected that I was a dark skinned Chinese person… at least that's what I'm telling myself). Either way, she got my order correct.
Two styrofoam cartons filled with piping hot ricey concoctions… and all for the price of $3. I damn near choked on the first rice roll that I stuffed down muh gullet. A bit of soy sauce and some other sauce just set the whole thing off. You could certainly make a meal out of one, and while two might have been superfluous for any other person, my fat @ss certainly could use the extra carbs (sarcasm, if you didn't pick up).
Another big surprise in the form of a small place, dishing out grub at prices that makes one scratch his/her head… how they afford the rent and make a profit??? I've not the slightest, but so long as they keep dishing out the goods, they can keep their ancient Chinese secrets 😉
Sun Hing Lung Co. is known to make fresh rice rolls daily, from 7:30AM in the morning, all the way up to 3:30PM in the afternoon. The menu focuses only on rice rolls, filled with your choice of filings: pork, beef, chicken, dried shrimp, corn, plain, roast pork, Chinese sausage & mixed vegetables, mixed vegetables, fish balls, and egg). I opted for the dried shrimp filling, and it was so cool to see the lady using a steel 'rice roll'-making contraption to assemble each of the orders. While I wasn't a fan of the dried shrimp (it tasted way too fishy), the hubs and I both enjoyed the rice noodles – they were super fresh and cooked extremely well. There are some bottles up by the noodlemaker that contains a watered down sesame-type of sauce; no hoison or hot sauce sauce was found, but you can ask a topping of crushed peanuts. I'd like to come back and try a different filling, either just plain or the one with mixed vegetables. Make sure you bring cash, as this is a cash-only joint, and just note that limited English is spoken here!
+fresh rice noodles!