The Best Dishes Eater NY Editors Ate This Week: December 2 | Eater NY

"Having undergone a profound change, this Chelsea noodle shop shifted from featuring Shorty Tang’s Cantonese recipes to primarily Uyghur cuisine while retaining its original moniker — a move that has confused longtime patrons. The menu now highlights handmade lagman, a big tray of chicken, and a few Shaanxi dishes, including the lamb and beef bao burgers popularized by Xi’an Famous Foods next door. The Uyghur lamb pilaf ($18) is singled out as superb: an immense mountain of rice cooked with enough carrots to sweeten it and tint it slightly orange, with plenty of chunks of tender lamb tasting of garlic and cumin; a tart Chinese salad tasting of sesame oil accompanies it, making it “one of the best dinners I’ve had lately.” — Robert Sietsema, senior critic" - Eater Staff