Anyone who lived in NYC knows that there is good Chinese food. Anyone who has ordered Chinese food from the food court at a mall knows that there is not so good Chinese food. What most people do not realize is that there is such a thing as GREAT Chinese food. Hop Kee is where great Chinese food comes from.
Hop Kee doesn't look like much from the outside or once you get inside for that matter. You go down a steep set of stairs and inside there is a small outer dining room and a larger inner dining room, which is where you want to get seated.
We ordered lots of old favorites including Chinese broccoli, fried oysters, moo shu pork, and my personal favorite beef chow fun. We choose some new dishes to try this time including peppers stuffed with shrimp paste, blackened sea bass and shrimp lo mein. Everything is fresh and hot and, as always, the oysters were so tasty that they vanished before I remembered to take a picture of them. The Chinese broccoli is also one of my favorites and I had to resist the urge to polish off all the perfectly tender sauce-covered spears even after I wasn't hungry any more. The moo shu pork is always a fun dish because you get to assemble your own little tacos with a thin flour pancakes and then add shredded filling topped with hoisin sauce and at Hop Kee it is also delicious.
Eating at Hop Kee is a Gutierrez family tradition dating back to when my parents didn't even have kids and they worked at a restaurant called Hisai's. The way my parents tell it, Hisai, owner of Hisai's, used to take the whole staff out after a good night and order "one of everything."
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