Old Classic, New Classic: From Hop Kee to Red Farm, Chinese Food Grows Up

All this week, as a Classics Week special, Eater is sending correspondents to classic New York restaurants and their newer counterparts, to see how the two compare. Up today, David Yee, visits Chinatown stalwart Hop Kee and Red Farm on the Upper West Side.

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The 24 Iconic Dishes of New York City

Here's a guide to the iconic dishes that have shaped the restaurant landscape in New York. It includes everything from centuries-old standbys to game changing modern classics, and many dishes in between.

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FiDi 'face fitness' | Rover 2014 rolls over | Centro's big lease

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NY City returns to normal

... arriving in New York the day before on one of the last flights before airports were shut down. "I was down in Chinatown earlier, and that was really great because there were no cars or anything. It was really peaceful." Roads in Manhattan were ...

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Celebrating Lunar New Year in New York City's Chinatowns

Items for sale at a market in the Sunset Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York. The Chinatown located in Lower Manhattan is New York City's most famous Asian enclave but a section of Sunset Park has become one of the city's biggest Chinese neighborhoods in recent years.

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Joie de Vivre Hotels is Moving East With Miami Beach and NYC Hotels Lined Up

But West Coast brand, Joie de Vivre Hotels , is taking its California hotel style to the East Coast, opening in Miami Beach and NYC's Bowery hood in the next couple of years. The Hall will open this summer at 15th Street and Collins Ave, prime Art Deco in a building originally designed by architect L. Murray Dixon.

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Lower Manhattan 'Shocked and Saddened' by Sheldon Silver's Arrest

... said. "Shelly has been very supportive of our community," said Wellington Chen, the executive director of the Chinatown Partnership , a local development and advocacy group. "It's very sad. I hope the allegations aren't true." However, others in ...

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High society is back: Staten Island Ballet's 10th anniversary 'Snowball' gala on pointe at the Hilton

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.: "New York, New York, a helluva town, the Bronx is up, but the Battery's down." What could be better than a New York-themed grand gala fashioned after the city "that's so nice, they had to name it twice?" News of the 10th anniversary "Snowball" - dubbed "New York Night on the Town" - has surfaced.

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70 new restaurants on the way

... will become A Thing within the next month with the debuts of New York's Nom Wah Tea Parlor (218 N. 13th St.) in Chinatown and homegrown Bing Bing Dim Sum (1648 E. Passyunk Ave.) in Passyunk Square. Nom Wah is New York City's oldest dim-sum ...

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10 Best Breakfast Spots in Los Angeles

Most days, it's just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-Wee Herman's playhouse, it's pancakes, eggs, bacon, and Mr. T's cereal via a nifty Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that involves no less than a few whirling fans, a life-sized model of Abraham Lincoln doubling as flapjack flipper, and a toy skeleton pterodactyl swooping down to drop bread off into the toaster.

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Noodle Lovers, Get Ready for Ramen Champ at Chinatown's Far East Plaza

The most popular plaza in Chinatown these days is home to an unlikely cluster of formidable L.A. eateries: Roy Choi's Korean rice bowl outpost, Andy Ricker's Thai street-noodle joint, and - as of this coming Monday - a ramen-ya from Eggslut's Alvin Cailan. Ramen Champ, a 22-seat spot from the guys behind the Grand Central Market mainstay, will officially open on the second floor of Chinatown's Far East Plaza on North Broadway next week.

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Holiday Season Means Increase in Head Lice Cases in New York

With the holiday season coming to a close, New Yorkers might find that their out of town guests left more behind than stray cell phone chargers. The holiday season typically sees an uptick in the number of head lice cases as many people are traveling, sharing sleeping accommodations in tight quarters, swapping personal belongings and generally in closer proximity to one another than at other times of the year.

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Explore 3 NYC Chinatowns: In Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan

Chinatown has long been a popular destination for tourists in Lower Manhattan. But visitors willing to explore the city's outer boroughs might consider a subway ride to neighborhoods in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, or Flushing, Queens, which are also home to large Asian populations and bustling commercial strips dotted with restaurants and shops.

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NYC's hottest cocktails and drinks to survive the cold

... "As Long As It's Legal" is made with moonshine. Pulqueria bar and restaurant (11 Doyers St., pulquerianyc.com) in Chinatown shakes up the classic negroni (gin, vermouth and Campari) by stirring in PatrA3n XO Cafe Incendio chile chocolate liqueur for ...

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New Yorkers still can't get enough ramen noodles

David Chang, the founding father of New York's ramen culture, swept in like the Grim Reaper on Jan. 13, announcing on his site LuckyPeach.com that "ramen is dead." But could this noodle-making kitchen genius really kill off what is arguably a cold New Yorker's favorite dish? We think not.

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Braving the Tundra for a Hundred Openings: A Frigid Start to the Art World in 2015

... publicists, artists, curators and collectors, some of whom were rather high-powered for raging late-night Chinatown party. And they were all enveloped in a thick haze of smoke, as apparently lighting up is fine this far down on Broadway this far ...

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Legal IDs Now Available for 500,000 NYC Illegal Immigrants

... I'm particularly excited about the positive impact the program will have within our immigrant communities, from Chinatown to neighborhoods all across the city," Councilwoman Margaret Chin said in a statement, the International Business Times ...

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Opening Bell: 1.12.15

Wall Street workers shouldn't be too excited for bonus season After a year of record fines, sluggish trading and low interest rates, bankers hoping for richer payouts should prepare to be disappointed when bonus season gets underway next week. By most estimates, the pool of money set aside for Wall Street workers is expected to be flat with the previous year, when the industry took home $16.7 billion, or an average of $164,530 per person.

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No one believed this former professor would rob a bank

Former MIT Professor Joe Gibbons proudly bragged to friends and family about holding up a Chinatown bank on New Year's as part of a bizarre film project - but they ignored his felony confession as just a big joke. "I left a message with my girlfriend's sister and I told her, 'Yeah, I've got into the city, I've got myself a room at The Bowery Hotel, I filed for Social Security, I robbed the bank and I went to the drugstore,'" the 61-year-old told The Post in an exclusive interview at the Manhattan Detention Complex Sunday.

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's Restaurant Power Rankings: Mission Chinese Returns; Ramen Lab Debuts

... Danny Bowien's reincarnated flagship is, at first glance, not very similar to the original. The vibe is more Chinatown banquet hall than ramshackle takeout joint, and - based on an early visit by Grub - both the food and service show polish beyond ...

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QUEERY: Robert J. Priore

It's a big weekend for Robert J. Priore, a dancer/choreographer who's possessed, it's been said, of an "easily identifiable and magnetic style." This weekend, his piece "Ascendance," a work featuring CityDance Conservatory students, CityDance alumni and dancers from several other companies, will be performed at the CityDance Studio Theater at the Strathmore Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 1 and 6 p.m. Tickets are $25.

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Thousands of officers again turn backs on NY mayor at officer's funeral

... d travel to New York. He is to be buried at Cypress Hills Cemetery. On Saturday, a small vigil was established in Chinatown and community members gathered, burning pieces of paper in honor of Liu in keeping with Chinese tradition.

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Destinations getting attention for 2015

... alike don't love Queens attractions like the 1964 World's Fair grounds, the hipster beach scene in the Rockaways, Chinatown in Flushing, the Asian and Latin American ethnic mix in Jackson Heights and the emerging industrial-chic ambience of Long ...

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