Monday, August 29, 2016

Plywood signage arrives for Michelin-starred Tim Ho Wan on 4th Avenue and 10th Street



Also on Fourth Avenue and 10th Street ... on the northeast corner... the plywood signage has arrived for Tim Ho Wan, the first U.S. location for Hong Kong-based chef Mak Kwai Pui's Michelin-starred dim sum parlor.

Here's more about Mak and the operation via The Village Voice, who first reported on this opening back in April:

In 2009, Mak left Lung King Heen — a three-starred Cantonese restaurant at Hong Kong's Four Seasons Hotel — to open the original Tim Ho Wan in a Kowloon neighborhood. When rent rose thanks to gentrification, Mak moved the restaurant rather than raise prices. Six years after earning his first Michelin star, little has changed.

Steamer baskets of plump prawn dumplings, Mak's signature trio of baked buns stuffed with barbecue pork, and Chinese-sausage-stuffed glutinous rice wrapped in lotus leaf all remain under $5. Even now, the tissues within the boxes placed atop each table serve as napkins. Meanwhile, diners still choose dishes pictured on a paper placemat, fill out their checks with pencils, and rinse their chopsticks in cups of hot tea.

And!

If lines out the door aren't already profitable enough, the New York Tim Ho Wan will also have a liquor license. While the menu will continue to be strictly limited to dim sum, the menu will grow over time and add more dishes appealing to American appetites, including "high quality beef dishes."

The address previously housed Spice, which closed in December 2014.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousAugust 29, 2016 at 9:15 AM

    Sounds like good cheap eats will be back in the EV?

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  2. AnonymousAugust 29, 2016 at 9:28 AM

    Or go to the dim sum palaces in Chinatown for an incredibly variety at a lower cost!

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  3. GiovanniAugust 29, 2016 at 10:23 AM

    Remember the old Chinese saying, "You don't have to be Bright to love Dim Sum."

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  4. AnonymousAugust 30, 2016 at 11:17 AM

    I miss Rosie & Ting's :(

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