Fu Zhou Cuisine

If you want dumplings that fill you up, this is the place to go. Very inexpensive. A hidden gem in Chinatown

My wedding will be catered from here.
This place has mad cheap food that’s really not terrible by any means.
As an FJ, this place is as good as it gets without my mom making the grub. Order the $ 3 dumplings and you 11 pieces of fresh dumpling and a side of clear broth. I don’t know what this is about, but this clear broth is awesome.
Their peanut butter noodles are the best I’ve had in NYC so far. Their wonton soup that is the jelly to the peanut butter noodles is a little lacking, but still great to wash everything down. and that combo is $ 4.
I wish they opened past 9 so i can drunkenly stumble in here and grab a homey bite.

Classic Fuzhou food that’s good and insanely cheap! Insanely cheap as in the most expensive thing to order is $ 3, unless you’re getting a bag of something for your freezer to go, which is still less than $ 10. Of course though, the food is packed with msg and salt so make sure to carry or buy a bottle of water after the meal!

So so so inexpensive. I came here when the other dumpling shops were packed and had no seating.
Nothing fancy here. The food is served on paper plates or in plastic containers. The room is crowded and a bit worn out. The food hits the spot (I had pork and chive dumplings and a fishball soup) and you will leave full and happy for about 5 bucks.

We were in the area for Vanessa dumpling, it was a pleasant surprise to find tasty authentic Fuzhou and Taiwanese flavor. Pork meat ball soup for $ 2

Very inexpensive… actually I will use the word cheap. Cheap ingredients used. I got the noodles with peanut sauce… what I thought was a safe option. It made me very sick. The peanut butter was obviously something with partially hydrogenated oils, refined sugars and lacking in taste. The noodles may have been OK with a good quality sauce.
It is a small place, as is most places in China town. It was also a bit on the dirty side… as is most places in Chinatown.
I gave it 2 stars because my friend likes the food and the people were friendly.

Don’t show up here expecting much except good solid food. The place looks like it hasn’t been cleaned in an age or two. The ground and counter tops equally dingy. There is little if any English in any form (good sign!), I was the only white guy in the place, which is how I like it. Now the food, whoa. Crazy weird Peanut Butter noodles. It sounds weird, but it was amazing. After having this I might come back to try more items on their semi-​minimal menu. Don’t let the grimy digs keep you from coming here, it’s worth getting past the grime!

Extremely stern and utalitarian Fujianese snack shop that provides a taste of home for homesick Fujianese immigrants. I really enjoy their fishballs floating in a subtle and soothing chicken broth

Cheap. Lots of FJ dishes. I wish the fishballs were more like the picture on the wall (juicy), but still good. The broth was like homemade. Yum. Cheap! Get full off of $ 5, and I’m not talkin Subway.

Came upon this place on my exploration of NYC chinatown. I love hole-​in-​the-​wall places. Knew I was in the right place when the folks didnt speak mandarin or cantonese but rather their local dialect with the customers. For those who are vegetarian, be forewarn. The fish ball is filled with meat inside. Found the décor lacking but the service was good. At this price, why bother flying to China.

Came here on a hungover whim: walking around, in need of soup, I spotted a bunch of Asians feverishly slurping through noodles in this hole-​in-​the-​wall. «They gotta have some wonton soup in there,» I thought. Did they ever!
I live near Chinatown, I’ve been to China, I thought I’d sampled everything China had to offer in the way of food until my «small wonton soup» arrived. The small refers to the wonton size, not the soup size (although this is not a giant, phở-​sized serving by any stretch). It’s tough to describe until you eat, nay *experience*, it. Baby jellyfish swim around in a sea of scrumptious soup… catch one, slurp it up! Each jellyfish/​wonton has a little, pencap-​sized nugget of goodness, shelled in a delicate, thin noodle membrane. The broth is (I believe) a simple chicken stock that does what it’s supposed to do: complement the wonton; more important is what it does not do: overpower you with salt/​MSG. At $ 2, it comes out to ~10 cents /​baby wonton. Yes, $ 2.
They have other delicious items, as well: try the noodle with peanut sauce ($ 2) and an order of small dumplings ($ 2, excellent, but I prefer Prosperity Dumpling for both taste and value). And, increasingly, everyone in there is chowing down on the #9 (starch soup, with deep fried fish bits… maybe it’s so good they don’t even bother to name it?). I’ll let someone else tell me how that is.
I’ve focused only on food and that’s deliberate. Service is efficient, but don’t expect a smile; décor is drab, minimal, what you’d expect from a $ 2 noodle joint. On Zagat terms, I’d probably give it a 27 food, 5 décor, 11 service, $ 5 cost.
(Note: I deliberated for months on reviewing this, for fear of the Unilocal effect. But, ultimately, I decided that it’s too good, too unique not to share with the Unilocal world that’s helped me discover so much… in so many cities.)