Great food! Just what we were looking for! The waiter was helpful and made some good recommendations.

My Chinese family's favorite place for dinner. We've been coming here for more than 20 years. If you want the really good food, you'll need the all-Chinese menu, or ask the waiter (in Chinese) what to get and he'll list off what's fresh at the moment. My fav fishes are the steak cubes, fried flounder, any casserole dish (like braised fish with tofu), salt and pepper anything (pork chops, frog legs, shrimp), razor clams, whole steamed fish, ginger scallion lobster, seafood with deep fried tofu cubes, black bean clams, snails, yee mein, seafood in fried basket, so many others.

I've eaten here countless times over decades, but it appears it's under new management -- and I was stunned by how much better the food was in my most recent visit! In particular the garlic roast chicken is soooo delightful -- on par or better than the one from Congee Village that Pete Wells once named the best chicken in NY. And the black bean lobster is one of the best renditions I've had of this traditional Cantonese dishes in years. Service was also better than I remembered. The guys were attentive, kind, and their English was pretty good! The ambiance is very meh, but the reason you go is for authentic old school Cantonese food!

It is an old fashioned no-frills simple authentic Chinese/Cantonese restaurant. However the food was amazing and the price was unbelievably cheap. Their lunch special is $7.50 which including steamed rice and house soup; some special seafood dishes are only a dollar more. I love their house made Pickled Mustard Green with sliced pork. It was under seafood section but I always asked the waiter to change it to pork instead of fish cake. Their pickled mustard green was a right balance of sweet and sour. I could easily finish 2 bowls of rice if I didn't have to cut down on carbohydrates. Also their Beef with Bitter Melon was my other favorite dish. The tender beef with the black soybean sauce balance the bitterness of the melon. I didn't like eating bitter melon when I was young but now I appreciate the health benefits of this melon. It is also a common dish for Chinese family. The classic dish of stir-fried Beef Chow Fun was super popular. This succulent dish was a combination of well marinated beef slices with soft spongy rice noodles topped with crunchy bean sprouts and scallions. It was full of flavor with each bite. I like that it wasn't oily as I sometime found this dish quite queasy at other places. This is a great place for foodies but not a fancy restaurant. So it won't hurt to give it a try since the price is cheap.

The food was good, I definitely want to go back here to try some more dishes especially the general tso chicken. They serve tea with the food here. CASH ONLY by the way and you don't feel obligated to tip here but you can if you want to.

Unfortunate circumstances brought me back to Hop Lee after a funeral, but it also reminded me why this is the place we go. My husband is a pretty picky eater and he very much so enjoyed the pan fried noodles from here. They actually didn't have any more thin noodles for the pain fried noodles so suggested a thicker noodle. Having nothing really to eat with the set menu we got, he agreed and it turned out to be the best and now his favorite kind! It was just plain chicken, sauce and chinese broccoli, but it tasted clean and wasn't heavy. We were very happy to have the suggestions from Chen and Sunny who also recognized me from earlier in the week because we were back to get him more :) As for the other food, it was all very good. The steak, lobster, roasted pork/jellyfish, pan fried filet, mayo shrimp, etc. The ambiance is plain and not so fancy, but the food and staff are good. The staff was super nice and accommodating and many of them also spoke English so a definite plus for non-chinese speaking people like my husband :)

5 stars for service, 5 stars for food. There's no better lunch special in the area! For 7.50, you can get a entre pretty much the size of a dinner entre with rice AND soup. The soup is a very hearty bone broth served first. I ordered the salt and pepper pork chops and my partner ordered general tso's chicken. Everything was well cooked and seasoned and we had enough to even take home.

Almost forgot about this place but lovely comfort Cantonese food. It's one of Chinatown's OGs (many of them are gone now) and no frills. Don't expect fancy but it did get the craving fixed! Faves are the Canto style lobster (although small this time), conch and tofu and walnut shrimp.

Came here for my mom's birthday lunch. We ordered a ton of dishes off their menu but the standouts were definitely the peking duck and their seafood. I especially enjoyed the clams in black bean sauce - balanced flavors and not too salty unlike other spots. Service was on point as well. They were quick and pleasant. Will definitely be back.

What is going to Chinatown in New York and getting nothing to eat? There are so many choices and varieties of restaurants serving up multiple Chinese cuisines, it was hard to choose. So we didn't. We just went into the first one that caught our eyes. When you enter Hop Lee, you go down a flight of stairs into a small space with low ceilings. They have a wide variety of items, but we realized they we cash only, and we didn't have much cash. I ended up getting hot tea and drunken noodles. We also shared a hot and sour soup. For a restaurant with a large menu and many unique choices, we stuck with what we could pay for in cash. The food was very good. We appreciate the service we had and hope to try this again when we have cash in hand.