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Popular $1 and $2 Tasting Plates Return to Chinatown’s Scrumptious Bi-Annual Festival

Over fifty Chinatown restaurants, bakeries, and teahouses will be serving tasting plates of their house specialties and signature dishes for just $1 or $2 dollars on Saturday, April 22 from 1:00PM to 6:00PM at the “Taste of Chinatown” food festival. This bi-annual outdoor celebration invites New Yorkers and visitors alike to enjoy a culinary tasting tour of the historic neighborhood’s many Asian cuisines including Cantonese, Shanghainese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai, and Japanese to name a few.

What’s on the menu for the upcoming “Taste of Chinatown”? Here’s a preview of some of the hundreds of dishes to be savored:

§ New Eastern Villa (66 Mott St.) will offer braised flounder cubes, sliced crispy fillet steak, and sweet & sour ribs for $2.
§ Wo Hop (15 Mott St.) will serve classics such as pork fried rice, scallion lo mien, fried wontons, and hot & sour soup for $1.
§ Another classic dish, the Peking duck, will be served for $2 at several restaurants including the famous Peking Duck House at 28 Mott Street.
§ Sweet-N-Tart’s (20 Mott St.) new creation, the sautéed shrimp in pumpkin sauce will make its “Taste of Chinatown” debut along with a traditional Chinese favorite, the home-style tofu topped with shrimp, preserved cabbage, and water spinach, both for $2.
§ Surely, Chinatown is not just about Chinese food! Doyers Vietnamese (11 Doyers St.) will offer a taste of Saigon with their grilled beef & papaya salad, satay beef, and grilled lemongrass pork chop for $1
§ Jaya Malaysian (90 Baxter St.) will present its signature dishes also for just $1 including the pineapple fried rice, Malaysian curry noodles, and Singapore fried noodles.

Ever wondered what are the perfect accompaniments to bubble tea? Let the experts at Teariffic Café (51 Mott St.) tell you as they showcase $2 finger foods such as yakitori chicken skewers, shrimp toasts, samosas, and spicy chicken strips in additional to a selection of their best bubble teas.

Vegetarians will also be able to join in the fun at Buddha Bodhai Kosher Vegetarian Restaurant (5 Mott St.), House of Vegetarian (68 Mott St.), and Vegetarian Dim Sum House (24 Pell St.) where the restaurants will fool vegans and carnivores alike with their realistic animal-free versions of Chinese specialties like fried snails, shark’s fin soup, Peking pork chops, and beef noodles for $1 or $2.

Tasting stations will be set up in front of each participating food establishment throughout the heart of Chinatown from Bowery to Baxter and Canal to Worth Streets with Mott Street closed to vehicular traffic from Canal to Worth Streets. For the first time, chairs and tables will be set up on Mott Street for the dining convenience of the many epicures expected for Chinatown’s tastiest celebration.

“Taste of Chinatown” will also feature a full-day of fun and entertainment for kids of all ages including lion dances, arts & crafts stations for children conducted by the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Children’s Museum of the Arts, and a fortune cookie writing contest where winners may have their words of wisdom published in some of the millions of fortune cookies made by Wonton Foods each day.

A tasting tour map is available at ExploreChinatown.com to guide participants to try the maximum number of tempting dishes in one afternoon. The tour map can also be picked up at the Chinatown Tourist Information Kiosk on Canal Street and Baxter.

The date has already been set for the next “Taste of Chinatown” – Saturday, October 21, 2006.

Participating Restaurants, Bakeries, and Tea Houses include:

Ajisen Noodle ; Asian Café & Grill ; Bangkok Grocery ; Big Wong King ; Bo Ky ; Buddha Bodai Kosher Vegetarian ; Chanoodle Express ; Danny Ng ; Doyers Vietnamese ; East Ocean Seafood ; Egg Custard King
Fay Da ; Fong Inn Too ; Fried Dumplings ; Galaxy 45 ; Happy 16 Diner ; Hee Win Lai ; House of Vegetarian
Hsin Wong ; Jaya Malaysian ; Lucky 11 ; Lung Moon Bakery ; Mandarin Court ; Marco Polo Noodle Shop
May May Bakery ; Mee Sum Café ; Moon House ; Mr. Tang ; New Beef King ; New Big Wang ; New Eastern Villa
Nice One Bakery ; Nom Wah Tea Parlor ; Peking Duck House ; Pho Viet Huong ; Ping's Seafood ; Sanur Restaurant ; Shanghai Cuisine ; Shanghai Garden ; Silkroad Place ; Sing Wong ; Sweet-N-Tart ; Tai Hong Lau
Tasty Dumpling ; Teariffic Café ; Ten Ren's Tea Time ; Thai Son ; Tongin Mart ; Vegetarian Dim Sum House
Wo Hop ; Wonton Garden. A complete listing of restaurants and addresses is available at the Tourism Information Kiosk (Canal and Baxter ) or at www.ExploreChinatown.com.