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chinese food — Brooklynian

chinese food

babyfishmouth
babyfishmouth
edited November -1 in BoCoCa (Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens)
does anyone like a chinese place in CH they care to recommend? we have tried delivery from places in Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights (didn't care for them enough to remember the names) and are a bit confused as to why there isn't anything closer? and yes we have tried the place at the corner of henry and baltic. please tell me there's something better.

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  • ben61820
    ben61820
    i agree that here in carroll gardens, and in this entire court/smith area, we are totally out of luck with the chinese. the only decent thing ive found (and i DO like a few of their dishes) is TOFU which is way out in PSlope but they will deliver to carroll gardens without hesitation.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: chinese restaurants

    To quote SpongeBob, "Good luck with that."

    I truly wish there were a good Chinese place in the nabe, but so far I haven't found one. You may have tried Andy's on Montague St., and I've had some decent meals there, but it's a bit distant, and I'm not sure how wide their delivery radius is. Same thing for a few places in the Slope.

    Face it, there's a lot to be desired about a neighborhood that has a longstanding Chinese place called "Me And My Eggroll." (And truth be told, I've never eaten there, but a word-of-mouth review from some friends years ago told me to stay away, far away.)

    I've always hoped that one of the reasonably good Manhattan mini-chains (like Empire Szechuan) would open a branch in Cobble Hill, but my prayers have gone unanswered on that point. There are a number of local hole-in-the-wall places, but my personal rule is, if they don't have tables and chairs, I don't eat there.

    For years, I've been reduced to ordering good Chinese food from Manhattan restaurants and bringing it home with me on the F train. (I always bring an extra plastic bag, to prevent those savory aromas from seeping out and into the subway car.)
  • babyfishmouth
    babyfishmouth
    well, thanks for the sympathy anyway. (i'm partial to ollie's myself, or those places on sixth ave near 9th/10th, but i'll look into empire szechuan) we actually turned to andy's the last time we were feeling chinese, and decided that it was better than anything else we've tried (that includes the tofu place in park slope, which we were sort of blah about), so we'll probably just stick with them until they let us down. we're in the delivery zone, so that's not a problem.

    two other interesting things that come to mind: on the topic of personal rules, yours (harried) seems like a good one, but i always find myself thinking, they've survived here this long, there must be something good about it--i'm thinking specifically about the place at henry and baltic, which i thought was barely passable, and i was starving before i ate (lived here over a year and a half and just tried it the other day for the first time, in a fit of desperation). there's no accounting for taste? is that the lesson that's being reinforced here? (see also ollie's, above) but also it made me think of the place (i'm sorry but i don't remember exactly where) where the staff was recently attacked (i believe the article noted multiple gunshot wounds). for some reason the description of the restaurant in the times article reminded me of the kinds of places we have here in CH--that no-tables, no-chairs kind of feeling. no big revelation, just (maybe) an interesting connection.

    anyway, i guess we'll take our small consolation in the fact that we're (apparently) not missing out on any great hidden neighborhood chinese finds, and start working our way through the andy's menu....
  • ben61820
    ben61820
    its tough, im also constantly wondering how these little places in carroll gardens survive. since EVERYONE i ask, only has supernegative things to say. Ollies in midtown rox, agreed. especially for a chain. yknow, it looks horrible, but FAAN on smith is pretty good. not exactly chinese maybe - i think they just say somethin gsilly like french-asian fusion. i know i know, sounds tragic, but the one dish i tried was super flavorful. not dull like ALL the little chinese joints in the area. this one, while not supersized, really tasted like someone cooked it fresh and put in proper ingredients. i replied earlier about TOFU but now im thinking FAAN, in the end, will more better satisfy - its just not textbook american-chinese, yknow?
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    Subject: red apple chinese

    red apple on columbia & union st isn't bad. cheap good chinese. nothing like what you'd get in chinatown but very standard solid chow. i live right nearby so i don't know how far they deliver but i always get steamed veggies & shrimps with brown rice and spicy garlic sauce on the side. mmm! 797 9200. a large (qt) chicken fried rice is $5.67. large chicken or beef stuff is $7.32.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    They're all pretty much not good. I think the little hole in the wall places survive because of people like me. You get home at 930, don't have any food in the house and beggars can't be choosers.
  • babyfishmouth
    babyfishmouth
    that is a very interesting theory (930/beggars not choosers). i'll make a note of red apple for next time--thanks for the tip. i think i've passed that place while either coming back from fairway or looking for a parking spot but wouldn't have guessed it was chinese.

    also, i will definitely keep FAAN in mind as well. we've avoided them precisely for the whole "silly" fusion marketing angle, or whatever it is. but ben61820 nailed it with "textbook american chinese"--sometimes that's really what one wants to have, and i guess this is a bad neighborhood to be stuck in when that happens.

    anyway, as noted before, i'll take solace in the fact that we're not missing out on the great cobble hill chinese secret.
  • ladybronte
    ladybronte
    I've noticed that too..... there are no chinese places around smith street or court street that are even half decent.. I really like thai sesame on smith --its not chinese,, but its close... the massaman curry is amazing. :)
  • jane_birkin
    jane_birkin
    I got food from Red Pepper (?) on Atlantic between Hicks and Henry once and it wasn't bad, though that could have been because I'd had a few drinks at Magnetic Fields first ;)

    I agree with the suggestion of FAAN. The food is more Thai than Chinese, but it's fresh and cheap.
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