New Shun Wei

Staff: Spoke no English, rude!
Food: no taste; cold inside
I was sent there by a colleague of mine, saying there food is good. Well — not anymore. The appetizers tasted like nothing but paper, the mains didn’t taste better in any way. Plus — as usual in Chinatown, you have to have basic knowledge of Chinese if you wanted to communicate.

*expect a long wait for your order, because they’re usually taking care of large orders for hundreds of other customers.
*Chicken and Broccoli with white rice is good, but tends to get a bit greasy.
*Wonton Soup is decent. Even though the soup is tasty, don’t drink too much of it.
*Roast Pork Lo Mein is too salty and oily.

This place is better than Lily’s or Food King, which are the two closest Chinese places in the neighborhood. The new owners have made the food more consistent after their takeover a few years ago. The chicken broccoli is really good (and pretty much the only thing I eat at Chinese places other than egg rolls or chicken wings). The egg rolls here are not really that good here though. They are super small and the veggies inside are kind of sour. The wings are decent.
I order from here all the time and sometimes the chicken broccoli has too much oil in it but I can deal with it as long at the sauce itself is seasoned nicely– which it is– unlike food king or the overpriced Lily’s.

Its ghetto food better here a block away Lillys is overpriced and has tiny portions …

I only ever order the shrimp with mixed vegetables. My neighbor orders the chicken wings, Pretty good. Fast delivery. I like that woman who is at the counter too. She may own it, but she definitely runs the show. A lot of personality.

Solid Chinese food. Ordered in from New Shun Wei on a Friday night with a bunch of friends. We ordered several dishes and everything came within 30 minutes and was hot, fresh and tasty. I would definitely order from New Shun Wei again.

This is a straight up Chinese take out joint. Very small inside. I need a quick dinner and went there about 7:00 pm just recently. I was in the area. I saw it was busy, many customers in and out. «A» letter grade posted on glass.
I went inside and found it dumpy. The Crown fried chicken down on Madison is clean and appears sanitary. There was a guy peeling huge onions on top of a chest freezer, huh?
The counter lady was ok. I order pan friend dumplings which took a while to get. Thirty minutes, I don’t get it? Eight dumplings for $ 5.75. Went back to eat, and it tasted like every other dumpling I have eaten. Nothing special.
Most Chinese takeout places get dumplings from factories in Brooklyn and Queens. There is a good one in Williamsburg were you can get them retail by the bag (all types). Freeze them and cook them when you want.
To New Shun Wei, please close down for a day and clean your place from top to bottom. Your place looks like a dump. Also, no one in a restaurant should be working in flip flops (yuck).
I will not be going back to New Shun Wei.

I have not been back, but to be fair, a letter grade is now up in the window and it is: A.

I’ve had Chinese food in quite a few places, so I realize the difficulty in arriving a consensus. It’s a moving target because the taste of it tends to differ depending on what city or country you are in. But there are certain centers of population and activity, like New York City, that would, by their sheer size become representative of Chinese food in America. In this case «dive» Chinese.
I have never seen the brick and mortar presence of Shun Wei. I know them only by the voice on the other side of the telephone and the presence of the delivery personnel, i.e. boys on bicycles, their handlebars laden with low-​hanging plastic bags of food, a modern day silhouette of the shoulder-​borne bamboo poles of yore. I decided to look online for Shun Wei’s menu. Within minutes I had it up on my screen. The Chinese (even the dive Chinese) are nothing if not adaptable when it comes to commerce.
As it is in NY, a short phone call and credit card produced a delivery boy, shiny and smiling, at our door. We eagerly dove into our package of plastic-​containered food. Alas, only a solitary serving of rice arrived in the classic wire-​handled cardboard bucket. All the rest of the dishes came in two-​piece rectangular containers, eminently reusable, collectible, but quite without soul. Also present were plastic fork/​knife/​napkin packs (what, no chopsticks even?) and about thirty or forty sauce packets of soy sauce, hot sauce, fluorescent sweet-​sour sauce, duck sauce and that curious gelatinous mustard. I would really like to know how many of these packets are delivered with food, stored for too long in people’s pantries, then thrown away unused. If I had a nickel…
We ordered Barbecued Spare Ribs, a New York mainstay; long succulent crispy-​edged pork ribs infused with a red char siu marinade. These were delicious. The «Sesame Chicken» seemed to contain no sesame flavor or sesame seeds, but was nevertheless satisfying in a non-​sesame kind of way. We also ordered «Chicken Chow Mein,» another curiosity, at least to this non-​New Yorker. I had always thought «mein» meant noodles. And in fact every other chicken chow mein I had even ordered contained thin egg noodles as a main ingredient. This New York version was served over rice and consisted of sliced celery, onions, carrots and thin slices of blanched-​then-​wokked chicken. The «noodles» were in the form of small fried won-​ton strips meant to be topping to the dish. Go know. Lastly we ordered a mix of stir-​fried snow peas, broccoli and green beans. By the time we got to tasting this dish, it was evident that everything we ordered, save the spare ribs, had the same «taste of the kitchen;» a sameness.
Shun Wei is not a bad place, even though he food IS marginal. What it does is serve a purpose, like a manhole cover does to a sidewalk. Shun Wei fills a gap. We have ordered from enough similar places in New York to know that it is at least on a par with the others. The does place start to shine when you have a late-​night need to be dosed eat (not «dine» on), Chinese food. It’s just enough, not very great, but for not too much.

Like the 2 stars i gave to the review and my ex girlfriend used to say: I’ve had better.
I ordered on a Sunday night to the Financial District which for those of you which live above the Brroklyn Bridge don’t know — it is a miracle to find a place open/​willing to deliver to the bottom of Manhattan.
I ordered a large hot and sour soup and a chicken with broccoli combo.
i got a large hot and sour soup and a garlic shrimp combo.
the food was good — but it came in a styrofoam container that leaked and there was only four pieces of shrimp, so this was a rice heavy meal. delivery took about 45 mins. overall, this place may be better to go to rather than order from.