Nam Wah Tea Parlor

learningtoread: 30th Apr 2008 - 15:13 GMT

Nope, but I took a picture of it! Some places beg to be photographed!

grisser: 30th Apr 2008 - 17:49 GMT

I think I remembered it being the oldest tea shop in China town according to the pamphlet they give out in one of those Chinatown festival.

CartLegger: 30th Apr 2008 - 20:53 GMT

Yes. this is a fine spot, an old fashioned joint that is the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Chinatown. It always looks empty, but you feel like a real important customer with undending offers of steam buns. Be ready to eat if you go there. Not great, but classic!

brightflight: 1st May 2008 - 23:57 GMT

I'm not sure. I've eaten at a Nim Wah dim sum place in Chinatown but we might've just mispronounced Nam Wah.

The food was really, really good but some old guys were smoking cigarettes indoors and it was kinda grimy and there was a totally fucking insane cat that sat on my lap the entire meal, and when I tried to get up it clawed the shit out of me :(

But it was delicious.

balloonhedz: 2nd May 2008 - 01:31 GMT

thatd be a heaven sent experience. That sounds so...correct me if Im
wrong....Damon Runyon??? Almost like a scene from Guys & Dolls if it
wasnt a musical and if it WAS set in CHINATOWN.

Im not laughing at your experience...but jesus I GOTTA laugh at your
delivery of it :0)

Craig: 9th Aug 2008 - 14:49 GMT

Fantastic food. Three of us ate till we were stuffed and we had left overs for a total of 13 dollars one day and 20 dollars the next day. Really cheap food and the best dim sum you will eat in the US.

jack chinoise: 25th Dec 2008 - 18:08 GMT

eat there 10-15 years ago regularly ; the elder owner THEN is now ancien, and the formica tables are near worn through; the dimsum seems a tad different too, but to see a relic, its almost worth the go-see. Likely they own the building which is unchanged in the 20 years i had been going.

try it.its not like the HUGE multistoried Palaces in chinatown.