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New Green Bo is an absolutely phenomenal Shanghai-cuisine restaurant in Manhattan’s Chinatown. I was first introduced to a number of years ago, and it has become my standby for delicious Chinese food in New York. Jesse’s recommended dishes (those I can also vouch for are starred):

Appetizers

• Steamed crab meat and pork tiny buns*
• Steamed tiny buns with pork*
• Fried pork dumplings*
• Scallion pancake*
• Turnip and ham pastry

Special cold dishes

• Aromatic beef
• Wine chicken
• Spicy cabbage
• Shanghai vegetarian mock duck*

Soups

• Shredded pork with Szechuan cabbage soup
• Shredded pork with bean curd potage
• Yellow fish potage

Seafood

• Baby shrimp with dry seaweed
• Sauteed eel
• Fish belly in brown sauce
• Yellow fish with dry seaweed*
• Whole fish in chili sauce*
• Crispy whole fish*
• Whole fish Szechuan style
• Sauteed fish fillet
• Shrimp with asparagus

Beef and pork

• Pork chop with salted pepper
• Pork with bean curd skin, preserved cabbage, and soy bean
• Stewed pork with bean curd skin
• Stewed pork with dried preserved cabbage
• Stewed pork with salted fish
• Tong po pork (with four buns)*

Vegetable

• Bean curd puff with squash
• Eggplant with garlic sauce*
• Bean curd puff with Shanghai cabbage
• Sauteed pea tip
• Sauteed water spinach

Casseroles

• Stuffed bean curd skin and puff with minced pork with bean noodle casserole

Shanghai lo mein

• Any

Rice cakes

• Any*

I can’t recommend this restaurant highly enough for someone looking for an inexpensive, delicious, and authentic meal in New York.

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