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Yee Kee H.K. Style

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1232 Ave. U Brooklyn, NY 11229

718-336-2338 

 

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  • Chinese
    Sun,Mon,Tue,Thu,Sat 8am-10pm
    $$
  • All Major Credit Cards
    Takeout, Wheelchair Accessible
    Dinner, Lunch
  • Beer, Wine
    Not Accepted
    Street
Description

Hong Kong-style food has infiltrated many neighborhoods in Brooklyn, including this one called Homecrest. Our favorite dish was the "farmer special," a magnificent heap of fried taro, shredded garlic chives, slender stalks of pungent Chinese celery, and assorted mushrooms, surmounted by a handful of fried lo mein. The cooking style also showcases borrowings from Chaozhou cuisine, which includes braised (rather than roasted) ducks and also "chicken Chao Zhou," poultry fragments dotted with cracked black peppercorns, deposited on rice noodles and garnished with fried spinach leaves. All the standards of Cantonese cuisines are also offered, making this a perfect pan-southern-Chinese restaurant.







  • 2010 | Robert Sietsema's Top 10: No. 2

    A haystack of glistening vegetables sat before me: bright green garlic chives, pungent Chinese celery, carrots, woodsy mushrooms, onions, matchsticks of fried purple taro, and onions, all of it surmounted by the snap, crackle, and pop of crispy lo mein noodles. There wasn't a smidgen of meat, poultry, or fish anywhere to be found in the Farmer Special at Yee Kee H.K. Style. This unreconstructed empire of crunch at once telegraphs not only the poverty of a Chinese farmer's life, but also its... More »

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  • Best of NYC: Our Critics List Their 10 Favorite Dishes

    Best of NYC: Our Critics List Their 10 Favorite Dishes

    | Wed, October 20, 2010

    Robert Sietsema's Top 10 1. This doesn't mean I'm forsaking my first love, Katz's pastrami, but the smoked-meat sandwich at Mile End is denser, redder, and offered in a sandwich that's just the right size for one person to eat, which means I don'... More »

  • Dish No. 14: Farmer Special at Yee Kee H.K. Style

    Dish No. 14: Farmer Special at Yee Kee H.K. Style

    | Sun, October 10, 2010

    Welcome to 100 Dishes to Eat Now, Fork in the Road's handy list of some of our favorite dishes -- old standbys and new finds alike -- compiled daily. Today's pick: Farmer special ($8.50) at Yee Kee H... More »

  • Hong Kong Restaurants Spread to Brooklyn and Queens

    Hong Kong Restaurants Spread to Brooklyn and Queens

    | Wed, August 18, 2010

    For more than a century, Cantonese was the Chinese food New Yorkers ate, first in the four streets of Manhattan's original Chinatown, but gradually spreading to every corner of the city. In the past two decades, restaurants from other parts of Chi... More »

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