New Green Bo recommendations
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.