Comments on: Downtown Lunch: Cheap Chinatown Snacks

By: Angel

Angel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:11:51 +0000

Don’t forget the Hong Kong egg cakes! You get 15 for a dollar! They are good. The cart selling them is on the south side of Canal Street and I want to say the cross streets are Mulberry and Mott, but I am not exactly sure. It is somewhere around there.

By: max

max — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:14:17 +0000

It’s Mei Lei Wah across from Ice Cream factory on Bayard

Like Daniel, I still really miss May May Bakery — their roast pork buns came 9 to a plastic box, were small, perfectly round with sweet roast pork in the middle. They were easy to freeze too.
My current standby for buns is Sun Say Kay @ Center & Canal.

After reading Daniel’s post and finding myself out of work @ 2.30 on Friday I went downtown & had 2 curry puffs (excellent!) and a steamed pork bun from Ah Wong (very light, nice pork, nice compact size). Great suggestions both. Keep this sort of thing coming!!

By: Corinne

Corinne — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:08:08 +0000

What about the My Li Wa (god i hope that’s right) bakeryacross the street from the Original Chinatown Ice Cream Factory?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:38:07 +0000

Yvo – It was the labor day weekend post..oh and shadddup! :)

besides those curry puffs were GREAT and 80 cents (80 cents the day I photographed it, but I’ve had them recently for 50 cents each..so maybe they just jacked the price because I looked like a tourist with my camera out).

By: Yvo

Yvo — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:09:47 +0000

Boo… this was a lame post offering =P

By: AL@1PP

AL@1PP — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:45:41 +0000

what about at canal st, in front of the entrance to the JMZ trains, there’s a whole row of carts selling everything from kibabs and fishballs to fried noodles and fried chicken legs. You should get 1 thing from each of the carts and eat it all!

You should also try to get the brown looking sticky rice wrapped in that white bread, and it’s steamed, You’ll know it if you see it. It’s delicious

By: wayne

wayne — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:30:57 +0000

The story of your life, eh Mamacita?

By: shaunya

shaunya — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:55:14 +0000

Sanur is like the best in the world!

By: Mamacita

Mamacita — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:09 +0000

I don’t know if you ask me, there’s too much bun for that small wiener.

By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:32:26 +0000

mmmm… that steamed roast pork bun looks awesome