Good Fortune Restaurant Flushing

Dim Sum Palace in Flushing, Queens. Your first visit to a Dim Sum restaurant may be daunting, they're often big, crowded, noisy and hard to fathom in English: How to get seated, how to order, what to order etc. It's basically the Chinese equivalent of an English tea. Here follow a few tips to decode your first visit to East Manor:

(a) There's valet parking out back, turn into Laburnum Ave. from Kissena Blvd.; you need only tip for parking when you collect your car afterwards

(b) be assertive about finding a red jacketed lady to seat you

(c) the first black jacketed person to serve you at the table is likely to speak English well enough; ask for tea, water if you want it, chopsticks, also knives and forks if you must have them, and the sauces you'll need (e.g. soy, mustard and hot); this person will also leave you with a card to tabulate your plates of dim sum

(d) thereafter you'll be approached by ladies pushing around carts full of bamboo steamers each containing buns, rolls, dumplings and pieces of meat; don't expect to be told much more than the name of each selection (you'll want to know the ingredients but they'll expect you to recognise the name); order for the table, not yourself, so point to what you want, order lots to share; generally there are steamed, fried and sweet selections (unwrap the the lotus leaf, eat the contents, not the leaf); the cart lady will draw circles onto your tab card for each plate you take off her cart

(e) bus boys will stop by to collect your empty steam baskets; keep your plate, chopsticks and cutlery throughout the meal; if your teapot needs filling, turn the lid inside out and they'll take it away for a refill.

(f) pay at the front counter, take your tab card with, they accept credit cards; they'll add a 15% service fee onto the bill, add more only if you want to leave a bigger gratuity.

As crazy as the place may be, there's no hurry. Enjoy yourself and the food and take company, this is a family style meal.

When I was living in New York I was often reluctant to visit this place for good reasons today I was told the place was renovated and the food is good , so I paid a visit and turned out quite happy about my experience, worth mentioning is if you walk up to the specialty counter ( where they do the 腸粉牛什之類小食) ,you could get a decent size mix of beef trips ,pork skin for a mere $5.50 which is a steal .And while most dim sums seem quite nice and reasonable in prices , I had the BEST beef chow fun ( 乾炒牛河 ) I have had in months , the noodle was done right and not greasy at all . And BTW, this is the only place I have known where the BBQ meat person would unabashedly grab the veggie ( to go with the chopped meat rice platters ) with his gloved hand instead of using a tong , it simply looked gross , NO , I did not see him during this visit 😁😁. I am not making this sxcxv up.