Congee Village
Chinese restaurant · Lower East Side ·
Vast Cantonese restaurant serving namesake rice porridge & more
Vast Cantonese restaurant serving namesake rice porridge & more
"Congee Village doesn’t just have big round tables, they also have private rooms with big round tables. The ones in the dining room are great for a last-minute dinner—you can usually snag one pretty easily, load it up with family-style dishes like salt-and-pepper shrimp and congee with salted chicken, and then use your lazy susan to make sure nobody hogs all the shrimp. But if you’re planning a birthday party, reserve a private room. You can do karaoke in those." - willa moore, bryan kim, matt tervooren
"Congee, and porridge in general, are vastly underrated hangover foods, even though Goldilocks clearly had to be drunk in order to just wander into a stranger’s home, eat porridge, break furniture, and then pass out in a random bed. If you did two of these things last night and aren’t feeling so much like you’re in a fairy tale, get a big bowl of pork and ginger congee at Congee Village." - neha talreja
"The team behind Congee Village is baking up mooncakes ($48) with four different fillings: lotus seed, winter melon, pineapple, and mixed nut. They’re available for pick-up at either location, in Flushing and the Lower East Side." - Caroline Shin
"If you had your last two birthdays at Wu's, try Congee Village next. They take reservations for up to 60 people, so you’ll never have to cull your guest list at this cavernous LES institution that has neon palm trees on the roof and a real tree growing inside. There are currently 28 varieties of congee on offer (we’re eying the abalone and frog porridge for our next visit), but their seemingly endless menu has dishes to suit all tastes and dietary restrictions. The line between party and after-party gets delightfully blurry if you pre-book one of the four private karaoke dining rooms, where cocktails are available by the pitcher." - bryan kim, neha talreja, kenny yang
"You can find congee at many restaurants in Manhattan’s Chinatown, including, perhaps most famously, Congee Village (100 Allen St.), which opened in 1996." - Hannah Goldfield