Bite of Hong Kong

Probably didn’t order what they were good at. I ordered beef chow fun, which lacked some flavors and a little bland. The beef was pretty good though. It was also a lot of food and good service. They were very sorry that I had to wait for 20 minutes for my dish.

We ordered: tofu casserole, snails, steak, some Chinese vegetable that I am unable to translate to English, cold jelly fish, and many more. The flavor is great but the size for some food can be a bit small.
At the end they provided complimentary water melon and black bean soup as dessert. The black bean soup was not bad.
I’d say this is a decent place to come for Cantonese food in Chinatown. The quality and the customer service is not bad. I’d come back again to this place in the future!

We have eaten here a couple of times. Last time, I ordered a take out, basically vegetarian noodles. I placed my order in person before 1:05 pm and most of the tables in the front appeared to be filled but for the most part parties were finishing and settling checks. After waiting until 1:20 pm, I asked about the status of my order as I thought it was a peculiar it was not ready. By this time, about half of the tables were empty. The male manager said he would make sure the kitchen knew to expedite the order. At 1:25 pm, I asked again and he told me that usually noodle dishes take much longer to prepare (no explanation and, frankly, I think we would all agree this makes no sense). After he flagged down the female hostess at about 1:27 pm, he asked whether the kitchen «started to cook» the dish. She gave a full on head shake and I left.
Unfortunately, I thought their food the previous time I ate there was acceptable. This was extremely inconsiderate and untruthful which just … bites.

Good Cantonese.

the food may be good, but their attitude stinks.
they have a minimum order of $ 10 for free delivery on beyondmenu, but they do not honor it. i ordered fried rice, which was $ 10.95 (hello guys, it’s $ 0.95 cents more than your minimum.
stop with this false advertising and get your act together.

We got here early and scored one of the nice and roomy booths up front on a Friday night. The food was very tasty. We got the pan fried flounder, the dried scallop fried rice and the leeks with squid/​calamari. Everything came out well prepared and well seasoned. Would definitely go back again. The only negative was that being in the booth all the way up front, the service wasn’t that attentive. To be fair –there was a banquet that night and I’m sure the staff was a bit overwhelmed. They added a nice little parting touch. When they brought us the check, they brought us fresh oranges cut up and served in a «cup» carved from the rind.

Cantonese cuisine does not get any better than this in Manhattan. The chef is truly an artist, and the manager is personable and wise. You cannot go wrong with the Chef’s Specials and the Peking Pork Chops are exemplary.

Did you know you can order a whole Peking Duck for $ 38? The plate comes with 12 buns and can feed 3 – 4 people depending on how hungry everyone is.
Great service, clean establishment, large portions, fresh vegetables, many good options for family style meal.

Great food! The staff was nice, the place was clean, and they payed attention to our plate, explained several of the dishes to us. I would definitely go back.

My family and I had lunch here on a weekday and found the food to be very tasty. We ordered the following lunch specials: sweet and sour pork, tofu and fish casserole, and fish fillet in black bean sauce. From the regular menu we ordered the BBQ Pork Fried Rice. All the dishes were flavorful, but we especially liked the sweet and sour pork that day. Normally I find sweet and sour pork at other restaurants to be too sweet or the pork to be too tough, but that day at a Bite of Hong Kong the pork was fried in a way without too much breading and still came out really crispy.
In fact, it was this sweet and sour pork that got us to come back the very next day for dinner. Unfortunately, the next night the sweet and sour pork came out too sweet and there was too much breading, which became very soggy (all the things that normally make me not order sweet and sour pork!). So what was a hit before turned into a miss the next day. But the good news is, when it’s good, it’s really good.
So we didn’t get the same quality sweet and sour pork we were raving about the day prior, but the other two dishes we ordered that night made up for it — the honey glazed walnut shrimp and the house crispy chicken. The day we went for lunch it wasn’t busy and we had a very nice waiter. The next evening there were more patrons, and the waiter we had that evening wasn’t as likable as the man from the day before, but he wasn’t bad at all. Actually, considering what passes muster for service at a Chinese restaurant, the service here was actually very friendly.
The folks here seem nice and most of the dishes we ordered were good, so I’d recommend giving this place a try. Try the fish fillet in black bean sauce and the house crispy chicken! Oh, and the last thing I wanted to write is we found the white rice to be very soft and moist. This is worth mentioning because at other Chinese restaurants, the cheapest quality rice is often used, and the white rice comes out dry and hard — the ricelets too individual, if you will. Thankfully, that wasn’t the case here on either days. It seems so basic, but the moistness and stickiness of the white rice does make a difference to a meal. So kudos to a Bite of Hong Kong for that.

Nicely renovated, good food, and ok service makes a good choice for Chinatown. Waiters were nice but they seemed very busy all around. Highly recommended

This review is only for kung pao chicken take-​out!
I used to live in Taipei and I thought they made the best kungpao chicken and I have been looking for something close to it in most Chinese restaurants here but still couldn’t find any. I thought I’d give Bites of HK a try.
It was mehh. It was one very pale kungpao chicken and really watery. The chicken bits were so damn small I had to use a magnifying glass to find it. I didn’t but I might as well. They were the size of the damn nuts! Some were even smaller. Same color too! It almost seemed like someone picked up splattered bits of some chopped up chicken from the wall and use it to make my kungpao.
Ah well. I’ll keep looking. In the mean time, I’ll make my own. I probably will return for something else just cause I live close by. We’ll see.
And Happy New Year of the Monkey 2016! Peace out.

Hidden Gem on the less traveled streets of Manhattan, Chinatown. The food is why you definitely have to go exploring.
Went around 6:30pm on a Sunday night. Was not too crowded. Service was good for a Chinese restaurant. This place advertises itself as HK style Chinese food. I can’t vouch for that since I’m not from HK, but it was really tasty and offered slightly different items that the usual places on Mott Street.
If you go, I recommend —
Oxtail Curry
Double Egg Dried Scallop Fried Rice
Egg Tofu with Assorted Mushrooms
I’d definitely go back again. And bring all my friends.

The food is amazing here. We had our company Xmas Party here and we had all freah seafood. You can request things outside the menu if you have a big group. The owner Ben was a great host. He was making sure everything was good and would accomdate our request. We had the fresh Giant clams sashimi, Alaska King Crab and many more fresh seafood. Their special soup was great, no MSG! Now the authetic Cantonese restaurant is getting less and less. it is hard to find one this good. Price is decent. Highly recommend it.

I love the corn and chicken soup here. It’s thick, and flavorful with whole corn kernels and bits of chicken throughout. What makes it taste so good is the rich broth, very delicious.
The soup is both pricey and a small portion but it is real good soup.

Bite of Hong Kong is a new authentic Cantonese sit-​down restaurant on Chrystie Street. While a bit far from the center of the Chinatown hub, it serves up quality food for family style meals and rarely has a wait. It is very tourist friendly, with English speaking staff and a beautiful fit out. The front of house is decorated with wooden screens and white banquettes which seat four. The back is similarly decorated, but with the standard 8 – 10 people round tables with red and pink table clothes. Lighting is great, décor is very tasteful, and everything is clean. (I didn’t check the bathroom, but hubster says it is better than most). There are two private rooms that fit about 8 – 10 people each. The very back «room» seats 20 people at two tables, but isn’t as private, just screened off. The in laws were considering the space for a birthday dinner.
We ordered the following for five people:
Cold spring chicken
Curry ox tail
Egg tofu with mushrooms and vegetables
Dried scallop fried rice
Sweet and sour pork chop
The dishes were very very well executed. Portion sizes are good and easy to share — we also had zero leftovers. The curry ox tail was tender and mildly spicy, with plenty of curry sauce to enjoy over rice. The egg tofu is fantastic, with a very soft tofu fried and covered in a mushroom gravy with choy sum and snow peas on the side. The dried scallop fried rice is masterfully executed, not too oily, with tiny flecks of egg, scallop, bacon, scallion, and yello raisins for a sweet contrast. The sweet and sour pork chop is classic Chinese American food, crispy and drenched in sauce and in a large satisfying portion. The meat was chopped into smaller bites rather than large chops, which is also fantastic. The cold spring chicken (or young chicken) was good, with a crisp cool texture, and salty taste — okay if you’re sharing with a lot of people because you might only want a piece or two. In addition to your order, you also will receive a plate of edamame and roasted peanuts to start, and you finish with a plate of fruit (honeydew in my case) and bowls of red bean soup. Very nice, and super thoughtful for a Chinese restaurant.
Service is good and staff are flexible. We had plates refreshed twice, and we were checked on twice. The waitstaff share responsibility, so you can flag down any service person and not just the person who took your order. Wait times for food were fairly short and the service was kind and respectful, especially for Chinatown where you’re used to some bickering.
Prices are about $ 15 a plate, but each plate is family style, which feeds 2 – 3 people easy. They offer lunch specials on the back if you’re eating for one or two. I consider this pretty affordable, especially considering the beautiful space, considerate service, food quality/​quantity, and the extra plates. Recommend if you’re in the neighborhood.

Mitten in Chinatown NYC an der Chrystie St eines der vielen hervorragenden Restaurants, wenn man sich denn darauf einläßt. Warum einlassen? Na ja, zum Teil wird man kaum ahnen was einen da erwartet, denn das chinesische dominiert das englische. Hier stand der Restaurantname zwar lesbar (in engl.) an der Tür, muss aber nicht sein. Überrascht hat mich, dass die Kellner zum Teil nicht sehr gut bzw. kaum englisch sprachen. Der Anteil chinesischer Landsleute liegt sicher bei 95%.
Wie auch immer, ich erinnere mich an einen geschmorten Hummer mit Ingwer und Frühlingszwiebeln, der frisch aus dem Bassin gefischt wurde und ein paar Minuten später auf dem Teller lag und toll schmeckte. Hummer zum Tagespreis für m.E. spottbillige 23 $. Sehr gut auch das ‘beef filet with black pepper sauce’, was interessanterweise mit richtigen Fleischscheiben gekocht wird (keine kleingeschnibbelten Fleischfetzen) und das Restaurant legt einfach ein Messer zum Gericht für die Aufteilung. Rippchen mit ‘black pepper sauce’ an einem anderen Tag waren auch sehr lecker.
Da ich dort zweimal essen war ist klar, dass es mir sehr gut gefallen hat.

Really impressed with this spacious and clean Cantonese resto. Pretty decent food with dessert and fruit after dinner. BYOB is a nice little perk!

Finding a new tasty place to eat in Chinatown is always so exciting! (Especially when its Cantonese food!)
This isn’t a quick lunch place with dishes and a side of rice. This is a place you sit down and have a good meal. Most of the dishes were in the $ 15 range but the sizes were large and great for sharing. And I’m gonna say it, the food was better than Congee Village.
My husband and I ordered two dishes, scallop fried rice and Hong Kong style steak (it’s a sweet and saucy fried steak). They were both delicious!
Service was friendly and quick. Dining room was nice, cool and clean.
We even got watermellon and ‘tong sui’ at the end of the meal! Great way to finish a tasty meal.

This newcomer to Chrystie Street serves up Cantonese style dishes with old fashioned flair and flavor but in a setting more upscale than your usual Chinese restaurant. You can take out of towners here without fear of being confronted with brusque service, dirty floors and walls and chipped plates.
While some of the older servers aren’t so fluent in English, they try to understand and accommodate your wishes, allowing you to customize dishes. The younger servers are friendly, and eager to please. The décor is dark cherry wood, with pink tablecloths over the tables, several booths up front, and a large back room filled with large tables for families and larger parties. The food itself is tasty, redolent of the garlic and ginger typical to many Cantonese dishes but not drowned in oily sauces. I ordered the lunch special on my first visit, a bargain at $ 6.75. You get 35 to choose from and to cater to more Americanized palates, brown rice is also on the menu. You get a cup of soup to go, which I declined as it was the standard beef bone stock. Mine was made to order, as I wanted the fish and tofu dish but didn’t want fried fish slices. After a conversation consisting of broken Chinese, the waitress and I ended up agreeing on fish filets with Chinese choy sum. It was absolutely delicous and I almost made a trip back to take out another order. Portions are ample and you get a pint of rice to go. The lunch specials are a very good value though the take out menu is incorrect. It says all day for lunch specials, eat in or dine out, which isn’t true. Dine in lunch is not all day. On a return visit, we ate in and ordered the Tai Peng Mai Fun, chock full of sour chinese vegetable and assorted seafood – diced scallops, shrimps and squid. It was flavorful and a big plate. We also ordered the Fish Filet Casserole, which actually comes with this amazing tofu that is crispy on the outside and soft and melty on the inside. I liked it better than the fish filets themselves, overly breaded slices of fish that had as much batter than fish. We forgot to inquire and would have subbed stir fried fish slices, which they will gladly do upon request. We ate everything up anyway. We were stuffed by the time the waiters brought out watermelon slices and red bean soup to finish of the meal. Again, we ate everything up anyway. Bite of Hong Kong merges solid, delicious Chinese food and welcoming service, a good reason to visit.
Tip: if you want more tranquility, sit in the front room and not where the «family» and large group room is. That is almost a different environment, loud with the chatter of groups and frenetic activity. If you come with a group of four and get lucky, you can score one of the booths up front.

The food was so delicious. All the dishes I ordered was all tasty and fresh. Came here for Father’s Day and was super busy and packed. The restaurant decorations was nice and clean. Even though it was packed the waiters still managed to do a great job with their service. Dad was very pleased with everything in the restaurant. We tipped a little more. Highly recommend this restaurant if you want good Hong Kong food in Chinatown.