Closing Bell: Is There Decent Chinese Food in Bushwick?

Bushwick BK set out to find decent Chinese food in Bushwick. Some places in the neighborhood may look questionable on the outside but could there be "one diamond in the rough, waiting to be exposed"? According to them, Lee Garden on Wyckoff is the winner but only because of its cleanliness and convenience. It seems that the search for the best-tasting Chinese restaurant continues on in Bushwick.

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Any in Bed Stuy???? I always bring it in from Manhattan on the way home...or just have it for lunch. I've never had such awful food as Chinese in Bed Stuy. And the sad thing is that most of them are actualy owned by Cantonese.

Posted by: daveinbedstuy at February 12, 2009 4:07 PM

"Is there any decent Chinese Food in Bushwick?"

Posted by: dirty_hipster at February 12, 2009 4:32 PM

haha this is great.

Posted by: Santa at February 12, 2009 4:49 PM

Heh. My brother, who lived down the street from Wong Foo for four or five years, used to call it "Wrong Food."

Posted by: Desi at February 12, 2009 7:17 PM

I call everyone's bluff on this one! All of you would fail a blind taste test in a second.

Posted by: Big Jugs at February 12, 2009 9:40 PM

Is there any decent Chinese food in Fort Greene? Boerum Hill? The only decent place I know is in Park Slope, on Sixth and Union--too far from me. Those no-seating joints just look atrocious to me. You'd think with all the good restaurants here someone would take a chance on more upscale Chinese.

Posted by: btwprd at February 12, 2009 10:05 PM

No kidding. Neighborhood Chinese in New York is a scandal.

Posted by: mopar at February 12, 2009 11:31 PM

Red Hot 2 on 7th Avenue (at 10th Street) is pretty good.

Posted by: SnarkSlope at February 13, 2009 7:39 AM

I bet the fried chicken at most of the Bushwick Chinese restaurants isn't bad, and I'm sure it's cheap.

I used to eat at similar places back in the day and always noticed that they seemed to sell more fried chicken than anything else. It's what I often ordered myself since everything else was subpar.

I'd redo your taste test focusing exclusively on fried chicken. And make sure to use plenty of hot sauce and wash it down with a can of cold Coke.

Truthfully, there really isn't much great authentic Chinese food even in Manhattan. Most of it is the same old American version they sell all over the US.

My personal favorites in Manhattan are New York Noodle Town and Congee, both of which are located on Bowery. The Hong Kong style roast pork and duck at NY Noodle Town rocks, and Congee, despite the Hello Kitties hanging from the ceiling, has excellent roast chicken with garlic sauce. Of course, the congees are excellent too, but they're not for everybody.

Posted by: IronBalls at February 13, 2009 8:16 AM

growing up the only "asian" food we had to pick from was shitty Chinese. Now every shitty town has Japaneses, Thai, Vietnamese, and so on. This makes most of the chinese I was eating when I was 12 seem awful.

Posted by: Santa at February 13, 2009 9:45 AM

We love Lucky 7 on Sunset Park's 8th Avenue, but that's Chinatown. Everything in Park Slope seems to be connected to Calvin Trillin's mythological underground pipeline of generic brown sauce. As for the greasy-Lexan-window Chinese bucket spots, I just figure it is a giant Asian plot to kill people in housing projects via premature cardiovascular disease.

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at February 13, 2009 12:07 PM

We live in a part of Bed-Stuy that has a serious shortage of restaurants and markets. (Monroe + Lewis) When we're exhausted and the fridge is empty we order delivery from Jia Jia 108 at Malcom X and Lexington. We've tried most of the other Chinese in the neighborhood and can say hands down that this is the best.

Everything we've ordered from Lo Mein to Chow Mei Fun, Egg Foo Young or my personal favorite Home Style Bean Curd with Vegetable is fresh, plentiful and cooked properly. Their soups are good too.

It's not gourmet and you probably wouldn't want to eat in at the restaurant, but their food is consistently good. The delivery guys are so nice and never understand why I want to tip them a few bucks.

We wanted to try something different recently and ordered sandwiches. I got the fried fish sandwich. ($2.00) I cracked up when I opened the takeout box and saw that it was on white bread. But the fish- an enormous fresh fillet, breaded and cut in half, stacked double decker. Nothing on the sandwich but fish, so we took our condiments out of the fridge and dressed the sandwiches ourselves. I've been craving one ever since.

Jia Jia rules!

Posted by: dash at February 18, 2009 11:28 AM

What a group of spoiled brats!

Posted by: anonymoustache at March 7, 2009 6:33 PM

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