"This multi-story Cantonese seafood restaurant in Chinatown has been going strong since 1985, so it’s hard to find a person in the city who doesn’t have fond memories of sitting at one of the banquet tables and passing around plates of shrimp with scrambled eggs and baked Chilean sea bass. The most iconic dish here, though, is the salt and pepper crab, a flat-out stunning head-turner. Lightly fried legs are piled up underneath the shell, with crunchy seasoning that we want to put on everything—rolling up your sleeves to suck out tender crab meat and eat every last bit of of breading is a rite of passage here." - lani conway, julia chen 1, ricky rodriguez, patrick wong