This is a no-frills, hole in the wall takeout spot where you can get a whole combination rice platter and a soup for under $10. The place is called Carol’s Bun, but don’t let the name fool you because they actually sell a variety of traditional Cantonese style dishes for a great value. We got a box of tomato and eggs, pork belly, and a radish tripe beef combination over rice. For their $9 lunch combo, you can choose either rice w/ 3 items or noodles w/ 2 items. The dishes rotate daily, and this is a great place to eat at if you want a variety of food for a low price. The food is fresh, hot, quick, and will for sure leave you with a full stomach! (139 E Broadway, New York, NY 10002) Open Thurs-Tues 9am-7pm (closed Wed) $9 lunch combo - rice w/ 3 items or noodles w/ 2 items

A take out place that offers authentic Cantonese food. I had 猪耳朵, 烤乳鸽,牛杂. All of them taste great. Clean and fresh. There is one small table outside the store no place to sit inside so it's for takeout only.

Duck is slamming! Def worth it and good size. The rest of the food is very tasty but portions are on the smaller side. Not very shareable for a group larger than 4. So you’ll have to double up on orders if you’re a big party.

We didn’t even touch the food on this table! it was that bad. This place officially tops the list for the worst Peking duck I’ve ever encountered. The duck looked sad, dry, and like it had been cooked three days ago, then reheated in an air fryer as an afterthought. If anyone ever wanted to punish me, making me eat their so-called “house specialty duck” would be the perfect way to do it. The irony? This is what they proudly call their specialty. It tasted like old, leathery jerk duck left out for days. Honestly, you’re better off grabbing duck from Big Wong’s. At least there, it’s not pretending to be something it’s not. I’ve never seen a restaurant with such a nice atmosphere serve such overpriced, reheated, fridge-stale duck. It’s almost tragic.I genuinely feel bad for the duck having to suffer through so many levels of disrespect. Speaking of atmosphere: despite there being open tables elsewhere, walk-in guests like us were herded to a cramped 2ndfloor corner next to the kitchen. I could literally feel kitchen grease wafting through the air and sticking to my hair. To their credit, the servers acknowledged the disaster and canceled the order, which I appreciate. But still no one should be charging premium prices for something like that. Maybe they can get away with it with tourists or folks who’ve never had real Peking duck, but I feel compelled to speak up for them: this isn’t how it’s supposed to taste. The fried oysters were terrible too, tasted like scrap dough. I had high hopes, especially after seeing the glowing Resy and Google reviews.but now I can’t help but wonder how many of those were manipulated. What a letdown, Hwa Yuan.

Great fast delicious and cheap! Just as I remember it from a decade ago

If you're looking for authentic fujianese food, look no more. This is THE BEST restaurant to go to grab a quick bite and start your day. The price is unbeatable, and the recipe has not changed for years. I've grown up eating here, and I love it. I bring my friends here though the space is small and tight the food feels warm and healthy.

Got the Pan Fried Mei Fun W.Pork Egg & Veg. Cash only. Cost $8. Taste good. Limited amount of seating inside. There’s also a bathroom here I think.

Quick service and the pan fried dumplings + fish ball soup was delicious. Hoping to go back to try the peanut noodles!

Very good food! Thoroughly enjoyed our Chinese New year dinner here! Definitely recommend. The fried fish was really good as well as the Peking Pork chop! Hidden Gem!

Great food and presentation skills. Celebrating a relatives birthday, so we had the place to ourselves in the basement equipped with Karaoke.

Golden Unicorn is one of the few restaurants still doing cart service for dim sum. I'll be honest as a non-Chinese Asian person, I usually avoid these kind of places because I feel a little bit at the mercy of the cart ladies. It's exactly this way here, but it does make it fun. And the experience is more about the fun than the food. The dim sum is ok. Not super hot sometimes, but it happens...it's getting wheeled around the dining room. My usual faves at dim sum are basic - har gow (we did have a pretty good shrimp dumpling, but not sure if it was har gow), sui mai (solid) and turnip cake (not very good - not fried enough so lacked the crispy end bits. The service is what you expect and I don't mind it, but if you're unsure...service is pretty businesslike without a lot of niceties. There are better dim sum restaurants around, but still fun. If you're going for food...I would head to Sunset Park or Flushing.

One thing I like about Golden Unicorn is how reliable it is. I mean, I've been coming here occasionally for 15+ years, and I never had an experience that was less than good. This bi-level Chinatown classic is located in the less touristic side of Chinatown east of Bowery. Because of that, lines here may be less crazy than at other dim sum places. It doesn't mean that there won't be a line, but if you arrive here no later than 12 noon your chances of scoring a table in a reasonable timeframe are higher than at other places. On a recent visit on a Saturday we arrived at 12 noon and our party of 3 was seated immediately As always, part of the fun of dim sum is ordering like there's no tomorrow and sampling as many different things as your stomach can handle. All the dim sum dishes were delicious. The only dish I did not particularly like were the xiao long bao/soup dumplings; then again, maybe this is not a dish you necessary order at a dim sum place. Being on the fancier side of dim sum, prices are higher than at other dim sum places, but still very affordable. Unlike most dim sum restaurants, dim sum here is also served at dinner, although I've only been here for lunch.

No frills steamed bun & dumpling place, apparently a huge wholesale provider for stores in the area!

This spot is in the basement of a really grungy and borderline abandoned mall on the far side of Chinatown. But it’s likely one of the best places to get juicy buns and juicy and well seasoned dumplings in all of Manhattan Chinatown. The service is really friendly, the prices are still so low, even with inflation, and the food is so good. There’s always a small army of female workers rolling dough, shaping buns and dumplings, and doing food prep in the back. I’ve gotten multiple types of dumplings and the steamed buns and all have been amazing. I hope they always stay in business! There’s some tables and chairs for eating across from the stall, but definitely better as takeout. Cash only!

I’m very much craving dim sum as I write this review. I did spent a bit of time researching good dim sum places that accommodate my love for meat and veggies and my friends’ vegetarian diet. I found this place based on recommendations online. Truly EXCEEDED my expectations. All the food was absolutely delicious and we were all very happy we decided to go here. Make sure to make a reservation so you get the good seats close to the window with good views of the park. Dim sum tends to be a very chaotic and an overstimulating experience, but the ambiance and ordering process was a very calm and pleasant experience. Staff were also so kind and accommodating. Can’t recommend it enough!

Super fast service. Responsive and curtious. The food comes out hot and fresh. We ordered almost all they have to offer and we did not have a bad experience. Despite the name infers fast food dim sum, it’s actually the exact opposite. The quality of their food is equal to or better than any non-casual restaurant. A must go.

Absolutely my new favorite spot of flavor of their Chinese food is unmatched nothing is a mess about their food very good prices the wait staff is absolutely wonderful my 3-year-old is in love with the waitress there. Very quiet areas they also have a bar outdoor patio lots of parking open when no one else is of course

A long time dairy resident (38 years) and a very regular customer, ordering once a week on average. This past Monday, I ordered over $80 worth of food for my family. The food we received was most definitely cooked a long time ago. Probably leftovers from lunch. The general Gow chicken was mushy and soft, the fried chicken was cold and dry, pretty much everything seemed to be made hours earlier. Considering the amount of money that I spent on this food I expected better quality. I expected freshly cooked food.

Good place to eat for Asian cuisine. Place is clean and owners are very friendly. The food is good as well.

as a chinese american alum from denison, this place was #my second home. so hear me out. precovid (2016-2019 dine-in, take out review) i think this is probably the best you can get in a college town of thats so white and so far away from everything. you gotta be strategic when ordering because i've been here so many times, so many. yet i haven't tried the whole menu. chinese cuisine isn't general tso, "lo-mein", or crab rangoon. so getting that for myself is an insult to my chinese roots. but i give dragon village props because they are AGAIN tailoring to another ethnicity that has a very warp perception of chinese food. i recommend the egg and shrimp, mapo tofu, scallion beef, FRIED DUMPLINGS; not boiled, with the sauce on the side, and their yang chow fried rice. their beef and CHINESE broccoli is also really good. my recommendations are probably the safest and most delicious food on the menu/"secret not so secret menu" FOR more experienced mouths. i want to come back when i'm back in ohio to give them some love and anything for nostalgia. pictures are from 2016-2019.

I would rather give them a ZERO for the way they did my order today! I had to turn around and go back to the store and request the proper meal at which point they packaged everything in a small Styrofoam cup and said that’s all they could do. I will no longer give any of my time or money to this restaurant! They are not the only outfit in town and I will gladly eat somewhere else after I have done many years of business at the store! Y’all need to fix your staff ! No sauce & no extra veggies as ordered and paid for!

So my husband decided to take me here because it was his favorite restaurant from his childhood, he still remembers when the soup was free 😂 Anyways food is good, price is ok, the restaurant look clean, and it’s nice to know they also have a drive-thru 🙂

I don’t have enough great things to speak of this business. The owner and family/employees are always kind and thorough. They always check to ensure the order is correct. There is no place in the area that has this quality of Chinese food and we love it. It’s pretty much a weekly staple. I strongly recommend ❤️

Recommend: fried dumplings Ok: pork lol mein, crab rangoon, Singapore Mai fun Meh: bourbon chicken Pass: beef&scallop szechuan style Fried dumplings were a little salty but overall we were happy with it. Saying the beef&scallop szechuan style was weak sauce is an overstatement. Sauce is very runny and very sweet. Small and sparse scallops and beef (mostly mixed veg) but the beef was tender. Scallops were very fishy. Singapore Mai fun didn't have much curry flavor Lo mein was alright though the noodles were a little broken Crab rangoon were positively anemic they skimped so much on the filling but the outside was crispy and nice Bourbon chicken was somewhat overcooked but the flavor was ok Not bad for the price but not impressed either.