Red Egg

This place is a hidden gem of New York. I just live couple blocks away and this place has been a huge part of my life for a while now. It’s a Chinese restaurant and sadly I’m not a fan of any Chinese food but this place proves me wrong because I like their Dim Sum style presentation of food.
The quality of food is similar to other few Chinese restaurant that I have tried, but the Shrimp and Scallops in garlic sauce is the best. It’s actually the only food that makes me coming bake here again and again. Of course I have tried some other options but this one is my favorite.

I must say I have mixed feelings for this place, hence the three stars. I love the concept. Fun and stylish but more passable as a bar and night scene rather than day because of the atmosphere. The décor is like old Shanghai and reminiscent of the streets nightlife. I enjoyed that.
Here’s the problem, mediocre dim sum (some dishes just didn’t work, I’ll explain further later) even with the promising menu variety. Think that’s where i got let down.
Don’t get me wrong, they score well for these points: take reservations for Dim Sum. Not many resys do. They have many waiters on hand, I must say they were quite handsome too. They also have three clean bathrooms. Very rare in Chinatown, first there’s three … that never happens.
Now to focus on the food. I like that you can order each item as you like and when. The dim sum menu had a slew of classic choices (shrimp siu mai, beef rice noodle rolls, chicken feet, taro cakes, roast pork buns to name a few). They also had things I have not really had before, so I experimented and ordered a few, corn dumplings, their signature red egg pastry puff, and off of their regular menu, the tuna rolls. I didn’t care for the tuna rolls at all. It’s sushi grade tuna but bad pieces. The tuna was chewy and not fresh. The bread around it was hard but not crunchy and flaky, just hard. And no flavor to it. For the price and the execution, that is not a good showing. Even the Wasabi that came with was not fresh. The corn dumplings were disappointing as well. Corn should have been sweeter or fresher. This tasted like frozen out of the box stuff. The surprise dish that I enjoyed but couldn’t make out what it was at first was the red egg pastry. It was flaky indeed, had a soft mushy texture on the inside and had a good finish. You could taste each layer.
I think to be fair the regular menu would be good for dinner as they had heartier choices. And the full bar in the front shows signs that this is the place to be at night. We’ll see if I get another chance to try it.

Red Egg, a pretty relaxed upscale Chinese food restaurant and Dim Sum place is great for some excellent food above delivery or the lower tier places in the area. They have private rooms for events as well. The food was pretty good. For a group of 8, we tried pretty much every dim sum available and each was tasty. The soup dumplings were a favorite. It would be nice if they had more than one or two types on the menu. We didn’t get anything from the main menu, but it looked like mostly modern takes on Chinese classics. The menu itself is huge. The cocktail selection is pretty big and everything we tried was enjoyed. The beer menu is a bit small and bottles only which is disappointing. Service was very friendly and surprisingly fast.

It was a dispointment experience for me and my friends. I have never left any reviews on Unilocal,this is my first time becasue I am so dispointment. My friends and I wanted to pre celebrate my birthday there so I took the reservation 2 days in advance. We have 6 people, when we got there, two of our friends were on the way. The waiters let us wait about 20 mins even we said we could order first. Ok, we said nothing and just waited. The most wired thing was when we spoke Chinese, they had poor attutide, but when we speak English or Contonese, things got better. They were several available tables for group people, the waiter’s attutide was not good at all. Ten minutes later, our two friends came and we could get a seat.
When we got the menu, the senior waiter seemed like push us to order. I understand there are may guests there but not that too much. Why you push us? And, the dim sum deliverd so slow. By the way, the quality of dim sum was just so so.
At the end, when I paid the bill, I was caculating how much tip shoould I give them. One of the watiers just came and said:” Why you are caculating? You don’t have to caculate, you can tip 31 dollars (18%) on the receipt.” I just felt be offenced and why you provided poor service and dare to ask me so directly to tip you as how much you want? Then I told him my friends and I were not satisfied with your service. The waiter just said:” Oh, then we apologize to you.” Oh my goodness, what’s that attutide? I tipped them of course but not that much they expected. I may won’t go there again. But to be honest, their coconut puding was nice.

Red Egg, similar to Jin Fong, is totally easy to miss, due to the fact that everything down in Chinatown is small and compact. However, Red Egg is much more spacious and welcoming on the inside.
The ambiance is definitely different from other games in town, since the place is a little bit smaller than most. I think that the other options at Jin Fong or Nom Wah are a little bit more fun, but Red Egg is alright too. True to it’s name, the design on the inside is actually very red– I hear this is supposed to stir up your appetite. Keep in mind that the waiting experience is the same here as it will be anywhere else– if you don’t get here early enough, you’re going to have to wait. The only problem however with Red Egg is that because it is smaller, there are fewer seats, and turnover will also be slower. As a result, you’re more likely to wait longer here.
As for the food, it’s alright. I am struggling to actually say how I really feel about the food, but the truth is it’s not much different/​better than the other dim sum places. I had a bunch of different things, such as noodles, siu mai, pork buns… all okay. A somewhat underwhelming place.
The cool thing about this place however is that it takes credit cards, and is above canal street, which is good for those who don’t want to travel too far downtown.

LOVED the duck sliders. Definitely get the radish cakes with duck and the soup dumplings too. Nice selection of wine and cute space.

I bought a Groupon for dim sum at Red Egg. As you can see, the overall rating for the place is good, not great, so I didn’t quite know what to expect. In the end, though, we were pleasantly surprised with the experience.
On the outside, Red Egg kind of looks like it *might* not be open. As it turned out, the place was positively bustling inside. We arrived at 7:30 on a Saturday night and were relieved we’d made a reservation. The décor is very red-​heavy and there are a lot of balls hanging from the ceiling.
Roast pork buns (steamed) — mmm, BBQ. We ended up getting two orders of these.
Shanghai-​style soup dumplings — I haven’t had too many soup dumplings to compare these to, but I thought they were good.
Chicken skewers — so good and fatty, with a light soy glaze.
Coconut pudding — my boyfriend really didn’t like the texture of this, but I thought it was pretty good. It kinda reminded me of the jelly you can get in milk tea.
Seafood and pork sui mai — not bad, but probably the least exciting of the all the dishes for me, especially since it was a restaurant recommendation
I also had a pot of green tea, which was a massive amount of tea for one person.
As others have mentioned, the dim sum is made to order rather than carted around. To be honest, I’ve only had proper dim sum twice before — once at Ping Pong Dim Sum in DC and once on a street in Penang — and there were no carts on these occasions, either, so I didn’t miss them. However, I guess it’s notable that the kitchen did end up forgetting to put in our chicken skewers order, which I suppose wouldn’t happen if you could just grab dishes rolling by.

Absolutely loved this place. At first I was a little confused by the place, it feels like a lounge/​bar type of place. The decorations are very nice and it’s actually quite spacious. They have a lot of mirrors so that probably helps with the illusion of more space. The décor is exciting. The food is great! The coconut jelly pudding thing was delicious. It can probably be shared among like 5 people? Small scoops per person, kinda like the perfect dessert for a heavy meal. I really look forward to coming again next time I’m in Chinatown.

No carts here, you just order off a menu. Kinda made me miss the busting environment. I appreciated that they had a lot of variety & we took full advantage by ordering 10 different dishes but no winners here): Everything was sooo bland with very small portions yet $$$.
pork sui mai: standard, acceptable. bf thought it tasted like tap water
ha gow: tiny but the best dumpling we ordered
shrimp rice noodle: a little overcooked but sauce was good
football: came out cold, hardly any filling, very lightly fried
scallion pancake: dry, not flaky, missing scallions.
turnip cake: bland, mushier than most turnip cakes — more like a taro cake
cilantro, taro, pork dumpling: cliantro was refreshing but taro texture wasn’t the best
pork & chive fried dumplings: standard
soup dumplings: wrapper was too thick so it got super chewy & mushy
shanghai bun: pretty good, wish there was more meat
green tea sesame ball: came out HOT! it was good, no green tea flavor though
overall, we were quite disappointed. everything was under seasoned & the bill came out to $ 70, which is the most we have EVER paid for dim sum. even though service was great & there was no wait, i won’t be coming back.

Got dim sum delivered. I probably would not again. I orders the soup dumplings, I knew there would be a chance that they wouldn’t come in one piece – They didn’t. Of course all the soup was busted out of the bottoms so they were soggy. They were just north of warm, and there wasn’t very much filling inside, plus the wrappers tasted doughy. I probably wouldn’t get them again, whether delivery or in the restaurant. I also got the pork and chive dumplings. The ratio of chive to pork was off, it was mostly chive and not very much pork. The wrappers were a little strange.
I was a little bummed out that the flavor wasn’t great. I’d been meaning to try this place out, I guess now I have but it was not what I was expecting, especially because I’d heard good things about the place. There weren’t enough good things about the food I got to make up for the short comings of delivery.

Food was really meh. Has a «grade pending» so that should’ve been my cue to leave. I was in Chinatown the night before and got dumplings. So I was in the area again and decided to go for round two. Tried this place and was highly, highly disappointed. We tried a plethora of foods: steamed shrimp dumplings, garlic fried ribs, spring rolls, sesame balls, pork buns and chicken buns, etc. The fried food was over done, the spring rolls were tiny burnt sticks, and the dim sum wasn’t soft and delicious. The dough was dry, hard, and thick. And there wasn’t much filling. I just really wasn’t impressed. The shrimp dumplings were about the only thing I did like.
The drinks on the other hand were good. I got a lychee saketini (might boozy) and my fiancé got their ginger beer spicy tequila drink (also very tasty and interesting). That is why I didn’t give this a one star review.

Came here for Easter Brunch for 6 people.
Pros:
* An easy dim sum place for tourists or non Chinese speaking people.
* Takes reservations.
* No dirty carpeted floors. Place looks clean and décor is modern.
* Food is ordered via checklist therefore you have to know what you are ordering and can’t see what’s in a cart.
* Spacious and you don’t feel rushed.
* Good service.
Cons:
* No dim sum cart pushed around so you don’t really know what you are ordering from the checklist.
* Food wasn’t great and the price is a bit higher than your other run down busy dim sum places.
* The menu isn’t as diverse or vast as other dim sum places. This is catered more towards the dim sum 101 crowd.
While I have more pros than cons, for me, I’ll stick with my traditional dim sum places where I have to go early with Grandma, bring my food ticket up to a cart and push my way through to get the fresh hot dim sum being rolled out from the kitchen. I think the fun thing about dim sum is seeing the carts roll by, talk real loud across the table or yell for the cart lady to come over, and just sit and wait around for the dim sum you really want to roll by or that friend/​family member to show up while you order a dish here and there.

Went in on a groupon deal.
Very cool art work on the wall… Place is aging well.
Food we ordered Dim Sum
seafood/​chicken that was chicken feet/​pork that was not tasty
Duck sliders were made at the table and were good.
The waiter was abusive but entertaining to my Wife and I
I will not go again

Tried this place so many times and I still continually dislike it. Why don’t I ever learn? I ordered delivery from this place and they came late. food was crazy expensive for tiny little dumplings and it was so cold. The scallion pancake was so expensive. it was «8 pieces» but more like 8 mini bites.

Red Egg is in no way related to RedFarm, let’s clear that up first. Red Egg specializes in Cantonese food /​Hong Kong style. Personally not a huge fan — majority of the cuisine is beige, fried, or really squishy and noodle-​y; makes me think of food I’d eat when I’m an old woman with dentures, but not now. Cantonese food, I can take it or leave it. Red Egg, even more so.

Came here for dinner with my bf the other night. The dim sum was delicious. Ordered the shrimp shumai, shrimp stuffed tofu, seafood dim sum, chicken & scallop bun, pork & cilantro dumpling, and vegetarian fried dumpling. I really like the shrimp shumai, that’s my favorite. Everything was good except the chicken & scallop bun… I was disappointed. it tasted odd, nothing like it’s supposed to. My bf didnt like it either. I wouldn’t recommend this
Also ordered the beef chow fun as an entrée. It was okay. nothing special here.
I just wish there were more choices on the dinner menu for dim sum though… the lunch menu looks more extensive. Will come back for lunch next time!

Pretty standard Chinese dim sum in a modern setting. Very friendly dim sum service compared to a typical Chinese restaurant so it’s great place for first timers and non-​Chinese speaking people. This place doesn’t have the traditional carts so you can’t eat with your eyes first but has the dim sum menu sheets for you to mark down what you want to order. It’s a bit pricier here than the average dim sum place but the ambiance and service make up for it.

I came here with the gf at 2PM on a Sunday and didn’t really need the reservation that I had made. First thing I notice is that the dim sum restaurant feels more like a modern American steakhouse with the low lighting and red-​tinted ambiance. A bit odd for a dim sum place, which I usually characterize as bright, loud, and gawdy.
Unlike most traditional dim sum places, there are no cart ladies (WHAAA TRAVESTY). Instead, you have a slip of paper and you mark all the items that you want. I’m a little torn on this — on one hand, you don’t have to worry about nabbing the carts and can focus on your friend that you are eating with. On the other hand, I don’t know Chinese or the names of the dishes since I’m so used to pointing at the food like a neanderthal: «Guh. Guh. That one. Mmm.»
The food was standard (a little more pricey than the other dim sum restaurants in Chinatown). Some of the seafood dishes felt fishy to me. I think the seafood dimsum with scallops was probably the worst offender and would think twice before ordering it again. The rice noodle shrimp had very thick noodles, which I like, but my gf did not. Their turnip cake was delicious.

Pretty place in the center of NYC Chinatown. Alas the Shanghai dumplings were not up to par: the soup leaked out from 3 out of 5 dumplings in our order. We told the owner who bought us replacement. Unfortunately, the dumpling skins were equally fragile and had leaked the precious liquids leaving dumplings dried and tasteless.
A disappointment!

Having already eaten lunch, ordered ahead for just their decent Roast Pork Buns (3 Pcs) $ 3.75 and excellent Young Coconut Pudding $ 6.50.
10% discount for MoCa Members

Muy buena comida China, los dumplings excelentes, el arroz frito estuvo muy bueno, igual el tallarín con cabello de ángel, lo único malo es la poca cantidad de carne que ponen en el arroz frito y tallarín, la atención excelente, el postre de coco muy bueno es algo diferente que vale la pena probarse, muy recomendado y volvería más veces.