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"A dressed-up Chinese restaurant in the Garment District offers rainbow-hued dumplings, wagyu beef soup dumplings, and a good version of fish in sour cabbage soup, but the real move is the salt-baked half-chicken ($39) — one of around 20 available per night. It’s a tableside spectacle: the succulent half-chicken is wrapped in parchment, covered in pink salt, and lit on fire tableside until the alcohol added burns off; a server then wields scissors to open the paper and parse the bird into easy-to-get pieces instead of having to tear into it. The chicken is gingery, mild, and juicy, and the reviewer says, “I’d go back just for this.” — Melissa McCart, lead editor, Northeast" - Eater Staff