Best Chinese

1. Chatham Restaurant
   One of Chinatown’s enduring institutions, Chatham Restaurant offers dirt-cheap dim sum, from freshly baked roasted pork buns to sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves.
   9 Chatham Sq between Doyers and Mott Sts (212-267-0220)
2. Xi’an
   The Golden Shopping Mall is a cheap eater’s dream destination, packed with stalls serving extremely authentic food, including that at Xi’an, where cumin-tinged lamb is stuffed into homemade griddle cakes.
   Stall 36, Golden Shopping Mall, 41-28 Main St at 41st Rd, Flushing, Queens (no phone)
3. Eton
   This Carroll Gardens eatery keeps things short, simple and cheap: Go for its juicy, panfried pork dumplings, or try the hand-pulled noodles.
   205 Sackett St at Henry St, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn (718-222-2999)
4. Pacificana
   Pacificana has steadily become one of Sunset Park’s destination restaurants, serving pristine dim sum in a grand dining room. Everything is made to-order in the open kitchen, like jumbo pork and shrimp shiu mai, intoxicating crab soup dumplings and strips of tender roasted pork.
   813 55th St between Eighth and Ninth Aves, Sunset Park, Brooklyn (718-871-2880)

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