Today, there are more than 350 eateries in Chinatown - although this number now includes bubble tea shops and bakeries that weren’t counted during the pandemic.
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Executive Dim Sum Chef Jin Ruan and Executive Chef Lai Kai Fung - the same leads in the kitchen - are gearing up to prepare the dishes for the new location at 202 Centre St., which is set to open for takeout “in the next few days.”Ī year into the pandemic, Chen told Side Dish that about one third of Chinatown’s 300 plus restaurants had permanently closed. Stefan Jeremiahīut the reopening of a neighborhood landmark, albeit in a smaller, single-floor location, is a good sign of the slow march back to normal. He’s pictured in the old location, which closed in March after it opened in 1972. Jing Fong’s third-generation owner Truman Lam had told Side Dish the restaurant wanted to reopen in a new location earlier this year it’s now reopening on Centre Street. Still, it’s too soon to give the all-clear signal, especially as the Omicron variant looms and there remains a lot of work to be done to rebuild from the carnage the virus inflicted on the neighborhood, which was especially hard-hit when tourists evaporated. The numbers have substantially improved.” “The tourists are coming back - especially domestically. “Things are better,” said Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership. And it’s part of a broader brightening of the picture for Chinatown. It will be a welcome sight for a place that was the hub of a community - with weddings, birthdays, tourist visits and especially get-togethers of the area’s elderly. But like the phoenix decorations brought from the old Elizabeth Street spot to hang on the walls of the new place, Jing Fong’s reopening underlines that after COVID lockdowns decimated Chinatown, its restaurants are starting to rise again. What does the new Jing Fong restaurant look like after its previous location - a high-ceilinged temple to dim sum with room for 800 diners - closed during the pandemic?įor starters, it’s a lot smaller: It will seat just 125. Longtime New Jersey resident Chris Rock eyes a $9.45M NYC condo 'Gucci Gang' rapper Lil Pump sells Miami Beach home to Green Bay Packer Aaron Jones for $7Mįashion faves Bessie Afnaim and Oliver Corral list $2.5M NYC penthouse Another NYC speakeasy, this one located behind an ice cream shop on the Upper East Side, has just reopened its doors to customers.Call Cindy Crawford and Mike Piazza your neighbors in Miami Beach for $8.5Mīrooks Nader and model sisters spotted shooting fragrance campaign in luxe NYC condo Frankly Wines owner Liz Nicholson is seeking donations to get a new Tribeca wine shop off the ground. The lesson is $49.99 per screen, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to Stop AAPI Hate.
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Chef Anita Lo is teaching a virtual cooking class on Friday, May 14 where participants will learn how to make Szechuan chopstick noodles with chili oil.
Buzzy new Brooklyn tortilleria Sobre Masa is partnering and hosting the most popular birria destination in the city, Birria-Landia, for a pop-up on Thursday evening, where they’ll be adding bone marrow (!) to the birria. In a new interview, mayoral candidate Andrew Yang told the Post everything that NYC restaurant and bar owners want to hear right now: He supports dropping the restaurant and bar curfew, eliminating the food-with-drink rule, and wants to make takeout cocktails permanent. It is unclear whether any of Jing Fong’s unionized workers - who gathered together and protested publicly after news broke of the dining room shutdown - will be offered jobs at the new restaurant. Jing Fong - which also operates a second location on the Upper West Side - continued to offer outdoor dining, takeout, and delivery from the Chinatown restaurant after the dining room shut down, but those operations will stop at the end of May. The struggling Chinatown stalwart announced in March that it was closing its iconic dining room after being unable to work out a rent deal with the building’s landlords following a crushing year of plummeting sales due to the pandemic, plus ongoing anti-Asian rhetoric and xenophobic responses to the virus. Eater New York has reached out to Leo for more details. The address of the new outpost wasn’t disclosed in the report. In late June, Jing Fong plans to reopen at a smaller, 125-seat location. Jing Fong plans to reopen soon in a new locationĮight hundred-seat dim sum destination Jing Fong will permanently clear out of its longstanding Elizabeth Street home on May 31, but the Chinatown restaurant won’t be totally dark for long, marketing director Claudia Leo tells the New York Post.
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