Wo Hop • 1938

Down a flight of stairs in Chinatown, the Huang family has served chop suey, egg rolls, and beef chow fun since 1938 in a basement dining room plastered with signed dollar bills and faded snapshots. The second-oldest restaurant in Manhattan's Chinatown earned a James Beard America's Classics Award in 2022 for preserving the unapologetic soul of old-school Chinese-American cooking. Late-night crowds still pack the fluorescent-lit tables for wok-fried noodles that taste like 1950s New York.