{"id":245,"date":"2010-02-19T09:43:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T17:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:08:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:08:28","slug":"four_wongs_and_one_yee_li_make_a_night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2010\/02\/19\/four_wongs_and_one_yee_li_make_a_night\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Wongs (And One Yee Li) Make A Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, BATC friend Mary organized a duck tour of Manhattan&#8217;s Chinatown that included some of her favorite low-budget spots for roasted duck and Peking duck. She called it a duck tour &#8212; we&#8217;re calling it a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/duckwalk\/index.htm\">Duck Walk<\/a>. We visited five (!) places in about six hours: Big Wing Wong, Hoy Wong, Big Wong, Hsin Wong and Yee Li.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/menus\/bigwingwong.htm\">Big Wing Wong Restaurant<\/a>, 3:40 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/bigwingwong\/03duck.jpg\" alt=\"Roasted Duck, Big Wing Wong Restaurant, 102 Mott Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 3:40 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/menus\/hoywong.htm\">Hoy Wong Restaurant<\/a>, 4:33 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/hoywong\/05duck.jpg\" alt=\"Peking Duck, Hoy Wong Restaurant, 81 Mott Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 4:33 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/menus\/bigwong.htm\">Big Wong Restaurant<\/a>, 5:11 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/bigwong\/04bigwong.jpg\" alt=\"Big Wong Restaurant, 67 Mott Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 5:11 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/menus\/hsinwong.htm\">Hsin Wong Restaurant<\/a>, 6:10 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/hsinwong\/02hsinwong.jpg\" alt=\"Hsin Wong Restaurant, 72 Bayard Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 6:10 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HG0sRfi7WKQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HG0sRfi7WKQ&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take this as an argument for eating out more often:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/hsinwong\/18fortune.jpg\" alt=\"Fortune, Hsin Wong Restaurant, 72 Bayard Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 7:08 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We needed a break after Hsin Wong, so we took a short walk and visited Mei Dick:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/duckwalk\/0537mottst.jpg\" alt=\"Mei Dick Barber Shop, 37 Mott Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 7:31 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/manhattan\/menus\/yeeli.htm\">Yee Li Restaurant<\/a>, 8:14 p.m.:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/yeeli\/20duck.jpg\" alt=\"Peking Duck, Yee Li Restaurant, 1 Elizabeth Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 8:14 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mary asked us to rate the places. Here were my notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Yee Li &#8212; though [this came at the end of the night and] we were stuffed, I think this may have been the best, plus [we liked the] floppy fish [which writhed on the ground near the tanks in front of the restaurant after getting dropped by one of the chefs]<\/li>\n<li>2. Hoy Wong &#8212; [A local] favorite, right?  I kind of agree . . . though the server may have extra beered us to inflate the check<\/li>\n<li>3. Big Wing Wong &#8212; hard to remember, but I recall comparing this halfway through and thinking it was solid<\/li>\n<li>4. Hsin Wong &#8212; then again, Hsin Wong (friendly server, right?) was pretty good, too &#8212; maybe switch with Big Wing Wong (or is that wong to say?) <em>[Ed note: Ugh!]<\/em><\/li>\n<li>5. Big Wong &#8212; if memory serves, this was saltier and not as fatty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I later learned from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/yee-li-restaurant-new-york\">something called &#8220;Yelp&#8221;<\/a> that Yee Li is apparently owned by the same people as Hsin Wong, which could account for some of our difficulty differentiating the different ducks.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus points go to Yee Li for their useful &#8220;Mr. Wipes&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/yeeli\/18mrwipe.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Wipe, Yee Li Restaurant, 1 Elizabeth Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 8:13 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No clue how you&#8217;d pronounce &#8220;Lrmgobao&#8221; toilet tissue:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/yeeli\/26tissue.jpg\" alt=\"Yee Li Restaurant, 1 Elizabeth Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 8:42 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also at Yee Li, this fortune that I&#8217;m still trying to figure out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/yeeli\/31fortune.jpg\" alt=\"Fortune, Yee Li Restaurant, 1 Elizabeth Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 8:51 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So many places insist they don&#8217;t use MSG &#8212; then you see something like this on the street outside:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/duckwalk\/08msg.jpg\" alt=\"Monosodium Glutamate Container, Bayard Street and Elizabeth Street, NW Corner, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 9:02 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I believe this is known as the universal symbol for &#8220;happy ending&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/manhattan\/lowermanhattan\/chinatown\/duckwalk\/0984bayardst.jpg\" alt=\"84 Bayard Street, Chinatown, Lower Manhattan, October 10, 2009, 9:06 p.m.\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, BATC friend Mary organized a duck tour of Manhattan&#8217;s Chinatown that included some of her favorite low-budget spots for roasted duck and Peking duck. She called it a duck tour &#8212; we&#8217;re calling it a Duck Walk. We visited five (!) places in about six hours: Big Wing Wong, Hoy Wong, Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-manhattan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}