"Dolphin Bay is a tiny Taiwanese restaurant that doesn’t have a liquor license and closes at 9. Those are two things we don’t like. But we do love that, for about $20, we can eat enough vinegary wontons, spicy popcorn chicken, and sesame noodles to fall into a food coma and dream that the dolphins painted on the walls carried us off to a magical seaside wonderland. This place gets busy and you may have to spend some time clustered around a lighthouse-shaped pillar waiting for a table, but it’s worth it for some of our favorite Chinese food in the city." - dan secatore