213 Grand Street Gourmet

• Cuisine(s): Chinese
• Hours: Daily 7am-9:30pm

Description

The minute you enter, your eye is drawn to the 4-foot framed shark's fin at the end of the room. You may have been lured in by the perfect display of Chinese barbecue in the window: pig, cuttlefish, chicken, duck, mixed gizzards, pork, chicken feet-even duck blood, the potent folk cure for heart ailments and antidote to the unctuous excess of all the rest. These ingredients over rice, and assorted noodle soups and dim sum, make up the teahouse menu, of which the baby pig over rice is the best-crunchy skinned and seemingly fatless. Or ask for the Hong Kong menu, which is considerably more expensive, and includes a wonderful soup of dried scallops fortified with ham and mushrooms.