Sheng Jin Eatery

As a native of Beijing, I highly recommend their Lv Da Gun, aka rolling donkey, which tasted even better than what I had in Beijing last year. It was chewy and soft, with red bean paste in it. I also tried Do Fu Nao, another northern Chinese food. Although I do not like the dish, I can tell it was good. I noticed many people ordered Jian Bing so I may try it out next time.

This place has great Northern Chinese food! They have great fish ball soup, vinegar peanut butter noodle, and pancakes.

Dang I was so excited to try this place after craving the jianbing I used to always have in China when I studied abroad. But I was sadly disappointed~ the amount of food for $ 3 is really good but I didn’t even wanna finish half of it because it just didn’t have much flavor and the fried dough was just really thick and hard for me to keep eating… I had such high hopes! Maybe it was an off day but I don’t think I wanna try it again.

I ordered the Dofu Nao and the Jian Bing Guo Zi.
The Jian Bing was gigantic and the the Dofu was a messy swirl of black and brown slop. By the looks of the food, my hopes were not high.
However, they both tasted pretty good. Especially the Dofu’s savory and peanutty goodness.
The place looks dingy though, and makes me worry about how sanitary the food is.

Being from Beijing, I was super stoked to find out there were places in the States that actually sold jianbing guozi so I had to try this place out. I was in town for a day and staying at the Sheraton on 53^rd street so it wasn’t exactly convenient to get food in Flushing but considering the only place I’ve had this dish was in China, I thought it would’ve been worth it. I don’t know if there’s any point to get into the atmosphere, it’s Flushing — so the place was grungy and there’s short old ladies trying to cut in front of you — that’s to be expected so I’m not dinging them for that. Also, make sure you’re with someone who speaks Chinese or are a master of non-​verbal communication, otherwise you may be there a while longer than you want. But to the actual dish? Highly mediocre. Whenever I’ve had it in the past, it’s always been made to order — piping hot. I showed up around noon and there was decent number of people there already so I was expecting the food to be somewhat fresh but it was barely warm. They could’ve at least put it in the toaster oven for a few minutes.

Love the breakfast here, so authentic, makes me miss home. Try the rolling donkey it is the best treat in the world. It is so good that I miss it every single day. I also had the soy curd, it wasn’t as good as the donkey but I think it’s because the donkey is too highly rated in my brain so everything else just tastes plain. They do have some other good food but I didn’t have a chance to try them all though. Jianbingguozi（煎饼果子）, Zhagao（炸糕）, Guobacai（锅巴菜）, different kinds of Baozi（包子）, Xiaomizhou（小米粥）are all good choices.

After looking for a place to buy Jian Bing I finally found it. While the food was good, the line was insanely long and unfortunately instead of the good crunchy noodle in the middle like they give you in the Jian Bing in China, here they give you a You Tiao (fried dough). While it’s not bad, it’s not as good as others I’ve had. But at least I finally found one in NY. Definitely will go back. But keep in mind their english is NOT good.

Enter the dark door into a narrow hall full of steam and dirty tables to find a worthwhile Chinese breakfast at Sheng Jin. I first went here approximately 2 years ago with a Fujianese friend, but only found the time to return recently.
I think few expats return from China and miss breakfast time. Chinese lunches and dinners will always have a draw on me, but my memories of Chinese breakfast are mostly along the lines of «why am I eating dinner at 7 am?» or «mantou and congee again…» Sheng Jin makes me remember the better parts, like the youtiao (油条) eaten while squatting outside the bus station and the Shandong da bing (山东大饼). Unfortunately, Sheng Jin doesn’t totally live up to my memories, but that is perhaps an impossible task.
I’ve gone to Sheng Jin a few times in the past few weeks. The Youtiao, while good, are not the best I’ve had. The jian bing guozi (煎饼果子) is a better bet. I’m not really sure how that translates, but it is a bing (pancake/​omelette) with a youtiao (cruller) wrapped inside of it with a sauce (hoisin?). Also on the list of things you ought to eat is the rolling donkey lv da gun（驴打滚), more of a dessert than a breakfast.
Place is not all that clean and getting a table is hard. I would recommend getting it all to go and walking to a park to enjoy your oily breakfast. Eat the youtiao hot, but don’t let the rolling donkey hot. They melt (trust me on this).

We eat our breakfast here. The jianbinguozi give me a big five! It is the same taste as in China.
We also order laodoufu and guobacai and fillings. We enjoy our beginning! It is a small place, but the taste is very traditional

Good food, reasonable price. It’s a no-​frill eatery. If you are looking for ambiance, you are in the wrong place. But the food is very good. My favorites are: Sesame buns, BaoZi with lamb fillings and the Rolling donkey.

I’ve been going there， 盛津 for ages. They are at the deep end of the narrow hall, sharing the store with another business (?) which is at the front of the store. By the window there is a chestnut vendor.
They make authentic Muslin food, mostly pancakes and buns. I particular enjoy their sticky flour (glutinous rice) with the red bean paste: Rolling Donkey 驴打滚. It has improved over the years, from thick and hard to now softer and thinner glutinous rice and more red bean paste.

hands down my personal fav restaurant in the USA.
nowhere else do they make my hometown food items they have here.
deep breath, here’s what I order when I come here:
1. jinbing guozi (egg omelette wrap with spices inside as well as a fried dough, sometimes I ask for it w/​o the fried dough — the way I’ve always liked it in China)
2. tofu nao — tofu soup meant for breakfast. with a million flavors, also a little spicy.
3. dumplings
4. buns
Mostly I’m just wildly crazy about #1 and 2. I think and dream of these items all the time, and can’t wait to have them when I go to NY. I’d travel 4 hours on bus + 1 hour on subway to get there just to have these items.
God bless you for existing!

best place for Chinese breakfast! Exactly the same flavour as my hometown, hope I can eat there every morning.

Every time we come to flushing, we always come to buy scallion pancake, the big one, $ 4 each, we order at least two, bring home, put in freezer, toast it when we eat it, so good. Their fish in the box, smoked chick is very good too.

Cozy Chinese Grub! With Soy Milk to Boot!
This eatery specializes in a variety of ‘shao bing’, meaning griddle cooked roast cake — think Chinese pitabreads, tortillas, naans. It offers day-​to-​day flour-​based staples indicative of Northern China. There are delicious steamed cabbage buns, leek filled breads, rice-​flour red-​bean rolls (named ‘the rolling donkey’), corn-​meal griddle cakes, a variety of dumplings, leek stuffed breads, and even savory hot and spicy ‘tofu flower’ soup (a sort of silken tofu that must be eaten with a spoon because of its high moisture content).
Try the sesame crusted roast bread, the scallion roast bread (they’re cooked as large flat rounds, sold by the slice)…and just about anything that looks warm.
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Bring cash and give this place a try!