Sing NYC 星财记
Chinese restaurant · Greenwich Village ·
Hong Kong-style cafe with "slippery eggs," milk tea, French toast
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Hong Kong-style cafe with "slippery eggs," milk tea, French toast
"Bring a buddy with you to the West Village location of this international chain. They do two-person combos for around $50, which come with an appetizer, two entrees, a dessert, and two beverages. It’s a good deal for some decent renditions of HK food—we especially like the fried shumai, slippery eggs with Malaysian curry chicken, and french toast covered in ovaltine powder. The place sort of looks like a mini cafeteria, with an open kitchen and iPad stands, but you can still have a cute date or meet-up here, with adorable bear-shaped ice cubes and Pepto-pink strawberry toast." - neha talreja, will hartman
"If you're in the West Village, you could take yourself to this cha chaan teng chain and have a perfectly good meal in a neon room. But then you’d be missing out on the two-person combos for around $50. Each one comes with an appetizer, two entrees, a dessert, and two beverages. So bring a buddy for well-done renditions of Hong Kong-style cafe food—we like the fried shumai, slippery eggs with Malaysian curry chicken, beef pasta with black pepper sauce, and french toast covered in ovaltine powder and strawberry ice cream. But, if that buddy is your kid or a niece or nephew, beware. The warm ovaltine drink comes with an adorable bear-shaped ice cube that melts under the hot pour, potentially creating a damaging core memory. photo credit: Will Hartman photo credit: Will Hartman" - Will Hartman
"Sing, a chain of Hong Kong-style diners, or cha chaan teng, has a new location in Greenwich Village (in addition to Sing Choi Kee in Flushing). It’s a bright, neon-lit space, and the menu features all sorts of slippery egg dishes, milk teas and other drinks with little bobbing teddy bears in them. If you can't decide between the soups, pastas, noodles and desserts, they also have various set meals. " - Will Hartman, Willa Moore
"I visited the new Sing in Greenwich Village (a shortening of Sing Choi Kee, a Fujianese chain founded in 2020 with nearly a dozen locations in China) at 182 Bleecker Street near MacDougal and found a gleaming white interior with lots of neon, elementary-school-desk tables, playful beverages like a “hot Ovaltine with polar bear,” and a backyard heated with flaming propane towers that students crowd more than the narrow dining room. The menu rejects classic cha chaan teng staples such as Spam, baked macaroni, congee, and rice noodle rolls and instead offers showy, affordable full meals: four “slippery egg” dishes ($14) stack rice under an alarmingly yellow omelet laced with milk and cheese (the one I tried had a breaded chicken cutlet and a Malaysian-style coconut-curry gravy on the side). Noodle soups made with soft rice noodles in a mellow chicken broth are strong, focusing on beef or seafood — the abalone and seafood rice-noodle soup ($20) was briny and fortifying, with squid, shrimp, mussels, fish balls and actual abalone, though I left wishing I’d ordered the spicy beef noodle soup. A surprising focus on Italian-American spaghetti yields a beef pasta with tomato sauce ($14) that I gulped down, bell peppers and all. Even though the place doesn’t open until 11 a.m., breakfast-style items dominate: several French toasts, no egg-and-toast breakfasts, and a proudly touted pineapple bun that’s well worth getting thickly spread with butter ($4.50). For drinks, I’d recommend the steaming yuenyeung ($4) — a thick tea-and-coffee with evaporated milk — or one of the frozen-teddy-bear beverages (a brown milk-tea bear clinging to the ice that sadly dissolves). Ultimately Sing is a great spot for snacking during exam week: I saw deep-fried fish balls (with or without curry), chicken nuggets, French fries, and my favorite, deep-fried Chinese sausages ($8) — red, anisey, and crisp, served with a small salad on the side (if only you could grab a beer to go with them)." - Robert Sietsema
"I experienced Sing, a Hong Kong–style cha chaan teng with dishes like pasta with tomato sauce, “slippery eggs” over rice, sugary bears that dissolve into drinks, and fried pineapple bun sandwiches, marking the chain’s first New York outpost." - Emma Orlow
