Best Dim Sum in Manhattan

Nom Wah Tea Parlor

A Doyers Street tea parlor open since 1920 — Manhattan's oldest continuously running dim sum house, tin-ceiling room, red-vinyl booths, menu-order rather than carts.

Because the original room is still standing and the dumplings are made to order rather than wheeled in lukewarm, the wrappers come out translucent and the shrimp filling tastes like it was crimped that morning.

Order OG egg roll, har gow, pan-fried turnip cake, and a pot of jasmine.

Walk Doyers from the Bowery side and look for the sharp bend in the street — Nom Wah is on the curve and a half-block north of Pell, easy to miss after dark.

Jing Fong

A Lower East Side banquet hall on Centre Street that still pushes the genuine rolling-cart Hong Kong dim sum experience on weekends — one of the last few in Manhattan.

Because Jing Fong is the room you bring out-of-town family to when you want them to understand what cart service actually feels like — the steam, the calling, the choosing-by-pointing — and the basket prices have stayed reasonable.

Order Shrimp har gow, pork siu mai, sticky rice in lotus leaf, egg tarts.

Go before 11 a.m. on a Saturday — by noon the carts have circulated twice and the most popular baskets (har gow, siu mai) need to be reordered from the kitchen.

Tim Ho Wan