Everett C & C

I am quite surprise at all the good reviews that this place has gotten. I admit, this is one of the easiest places to grab Chinese (fujinese to be exact) food late late at night (and I’m talking 2 am or so they are still open). However my experiences eating at the store is never good.
First off there are occasionally people who go there and smoke in the store even though there clearly is a sign saying no smoking! The waitresses at the store will not bother telling them to stop cause it is clearly a cultural thing but they will ask them to stop only if another customer complains about it.
Secondly almost none of the workers actually speak fluent English and the English menu and Chinese menu are off in numbers. Me and my friends tried ordering a few meals by saying the numbers on the menu and when we got out stuff it was the wrong order. Might I add that we had to pay for the wrong order as well and they didn’t bother taking it away from the table.
Thirdly, the delivery guy is RUDE RUDE RuDE to the max. I mean he always calls and says he is outside when he is not, making me wait 10 – 15 mins outside for him. He also sometimes ask for tip when you don’t give him enough. And sometimes he doesn’t carry enough change -.-.
Also if you don’t know the difference between Chinese cuisine and fujinese cuisine, its that fujinese cuisine tends to use a lot of vinegar or red wine while cooking. I didn’t know that and that was fault on my part but otherwise food is relatively okay.
Most of the time I order beef and tofu over rice for late night snacks .
That is the only reason I frequent this place, late night food.

this is one of many good fujian restaurants on 8^th ave, the only problem is that they are all the same to me and nothing makes one particular restaurant stand out from the other
if you go to a fujian restaurant, must have the family style dinner, they have a special for about $ 20 for 3 dishes of food that you can pick from a pretty decent size list and it comes with a soup, cannot beat that, but be sure you have a person in the group that is fujian and knows how to speak the language, you can probably get by with mandarin, but having someone in the group from fujian is better, they know more or less of what to order, the special for $ 20 really feeds 2 people
this is one of the value eats in 8^th ave, it won’t put a hole in your pocket like the fancy places do
be sure to bring cash as there aren’t many restaurants on 8^th ave that take something other than cash, would definitely come back here again

So happy to have found this place. We’d been going to Lucky Eight, which us very good; but Everett C & C is maybe better. Certainly the service is friendlier, and the kitchen is faster. We enjoyed a lovely meal which included razor clams in black bean sauce, stir fried monkfish (they call it rock fish), and fresh abalone in brown sauce. Excellent!

Awesome restaurant, but w/​caveats
Even after living in NYC for over 20 years and in Brooklyn for over a decade, I get surprised once in a while by a restaurant like Everett. It is not a big restaurant, and on the Friday that I went to celebrate a friend’s birthday, it was not packed.
But even if it was packed, I wouldn’t feel cramped up like many Chinese restaurants that got so famous that they place tables what seem like mere inches away from each other. The tables are spaciously placed, and the wait staff won’t have to squeeze in to refill your tea.
As for complaints from other reviewers about slow service and smokers, we didn’t see any smokers when we were there, and we would have left the restaurant w/​o ordering if we did as we have a pregger in our group. As for the slow service, we didn’t notice it as ½ our group was running late. Seriously, this is not Manhattan, you can’t expect all your food to fly out at once. It was better for us that there service is a bit slow so that we got more time to chat as I haven’t seen my friends in months, and we were only there for 2 ½ hours.
Now for the food, its amazing. The presentation for the fancier dishes are top notch for a Chinese restaurant. But every dish is so flavorful and cooked to perfection. The meat dishes are deliciously tender, and the vegetable dishes still retain their crunchiness even though they were «wokked» at very high heat.
Here’s what we ordered:
Octopus — We ate this as an appetizer. The people that came late missed out on this dish, lol. I don’t know how they made it so flavorful. Guesses are they chopped it up and let it marinate in its ink?
Jellyfish — Standard fare for Chinese restaurants, although they didn’t turn them into «strings» like most places do. They sliced them up instead. If you have not had jellyfish served this way before, the texture of each slice will BLOW YOUR MIND.
Fresh shrimps in a broth served in bamboo chute — This looks impressive to start, but it tastes even better. The broth is excellent, with goji berries and other ingredients that I couldn’t name. The shrimps are shrimps, but they taste as good as you can get them.
Crystal Crab (Australian Snow Crab) — Delicious! Add some rice into the shell to soak up all the juices from the crab! Unbelievable!
Chicken — Okay, this wasn’t that good, but only because they tried too hard and infused a bit too much flavor. But my friends finished it so maybe Its not so bad.
Conch w/​flat noodles — Wow! You know how like people hate the «fishiness» of salmon when it is cooked incorrectly. Well, there’s plenty of «fishiness» in the noodles from the conch, but it tasted great! Maybe my taste buds are messed up after eating all these weird dishes in the past (lamb brains, snakes, etc.), but this was genuinely good. Its something that you would never think goes well together, but… it does.
Cucumber (squash) w/​shredded dried scallops — okay, only because I had this elsewhere before.
Beef Stomach Stew — So deliciously tender. Way more meat than tripe. I guess ppl that like tripe will not like this dish.
Seafood mix (scallops, conch, some other stuff?) — the noodle dish was better
bitter melon w/​dried shrimps — Okay. If you don’t absolutely detest bitter melon, you will like this dish. The saltiness from the dried shrimps cuts the bitterness, and then when the bitterness pass, it tastes very refreshing. So simple to do, but I can’t recall the last time that I had this dish made as good as this.
Soy sauce seafood mix w/​lotus roots — there’s a lot of squid in here, and the soy sauce definitely ups the flavor. But the lotus roots and the other veggies, which were cooked separately, cuts the saltiness and adds plenty of crunch.
Chinese cabbage w/​red chilies — I guess this is a szechuan style dish? I haven’t had this before but I also rarely go to Chinese szechuan restaurants.
Taro paste — Okay. This totally reminds me of poi, but it is warm and way sweeter. Its really good. The only downside is the comp dessert soup taste bland after having this.
Okay, so back to the caveat. Don’t come here if you don’t know how to speak Mandarin. As mentioned in previous reviews, the menu are in Chinese only and even then I feel you have to know what to order. Good thing we have someone that knows both when we went that day.

the food is just really mediocre. not a good restaurant to bring family or a hot date (or any date) — but if you are a smoker, then this is the perfect spot for you…

This place was horrible. I would never go there again! NYS laws have banned smoking in restaurants yet upon arrival I see 2 tables smoking up a storm with no smoking signs everywhere. The waiters all standing around as if nothing happened. This ISN’T CHINA! Absolutely unsanitary and unacceptable.
We had a party of 10 ppl reserved and the waitress leads us to the basement in a tightly seated room where the chairs look all beat up and smelled like urine.
The food was mediocre at best, drenched with sauce to cover up the taste of meat which was obviously not fresh. The proportions were small compared to the average dishes you normally get at a Chinese restaurant of the same price range. The chicken dish we ordered barely had any meat on it, just bones and the clams were very very small. The walnut shrimp dish was not fresh either.
This is by far the worse Chinese restaurant I’ve been to and it is completely unsanitary. I would know what good or at least decent Chinese food taste like since I am Chinese myself.
To top i off, the waitresses did not understand a word of English and couldn’t get my friend a ginger ale.
I want to give this a negative rating and I think the dept of health needs to shut it down!

I found that vegetable in an H Mart of the same quality.

I would have to totally agree with the previous two reviews of this place. It is secretly one of the best Chinese restaurants on this strip of restaurant row on Eighth Avenue.
They do fresh seafood soo right. I’m not sure of their level of english proficiency, but they speak Mandarin and I don’t but I always have someone there who can order for me. I usually order off the menu items (menu is not in English… huge bummer and hence a one star deduction)
i usually order some stir fried clams in a reddish sauce, fried flounder, and duck. Bring along a friend who speaks their language and I guarantee this will be a lip smacking good time.

I’m genuinely shocked there aren’t more reviews for this place. That’s probably because there aren’t many white people around here and Unilocal has yet to be fully utilized by the Chinese community. It might just be the hidden gem of this neighborhood and since Asian businesses tend to compete with ferociousness, it says a lot when most of my Chinese friends have recommended this place above all others.
Let’s start with the obvious, the amazing, delicious food. You’d be pretty naïve to come in here for the first time and think you’ll know what to order because the menu is so extensive. They have everything it seems, stemming from varieties in the north, south, and central regions of China. I love their seafood tanks, full of fresh catches just waiting to be devoured by the hungry. One thing they don’t have much of it seems, is an American Chinese selection. That’s a GOOD thing, we already have too many Chinese takeout joints that serve plenty of that but if that’s what you’re looking for, go there. This is the real thing.
I’m not going to lie and say I knew what to order. You’ve got to come here with someone who knows what they’re doing, or you could be doomed to order something that doesn’t agree with your tastebuds. My friends were kind enough to allow me to sample various dishes that are supposedly specialties of the Fujian province in China, all of which were awesome. There was a frog dish, chicken dish, and plenty of seafood all around. Even the vegetables were fresh and full of flavor.
The waitresses don’t speak much English, another good sign that locals dine here exclusively. I know a bit of Cantonese, I think that actually helped. Either way, they were very gracious in keeping our group in check. I think it made our evening that much more flawless.
Lastly, I am impressed at how much larger this place is than it lets on. Other than Pacificana, there aren’t too many restaurants that have a nice feel to it. I dined down stairs in one of their many private rooms and I love how sectioned off certain areas are, giving groups the kind of privacy people pay big bucks to get. I give Everett my pick as the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn’s 8^th Avenue.

With its impressive outside sign and massive seafood tank, Everett gets kudos for standing out amongst the Chinese businesses along 8^th avenue but more importantly gets my nod for the best Chinese restaurant in Brooklyn Chinatown. There are few places that can emulate the quality of selection Everett has to offer. I can’t think any establishment in the area that has a more extensive menu of Seafood and Fujian style specialties. To add to that, they have fast service, excellent prices, and feature a splendid décor.
As I mentioned in my previous review, everything about the restaurant almost distinctly caters to a Chinese crowd (menu selection, CCTV news, and even the karaōke) but I have seen some non-​Chinese in here on occasion. The waitresses do speak some English, but coming with someone who may speak Mandarin would likely help the dining experience tremendously.
The dishes just keep getting better and better during each visit. There is no question the food is of superior quality, with plenty of flavor and freshness, and can cater to a variety of palates. There are some standard Cantonese /​Northern Chinese dishes available as well, but I advise most folks to get a little adventurous and order their homestyle dishes (i.e. Steamed Mantis Shrimp, Fukinese King Crab, etc.), especially the ones that are less likely to be found in other establishments.
On a whole, this place is hard to miss and even harder to pass up for folks who can appreciate true authentic cuisine. The sign on the outside glows into the night while all of the tiny markets and bakeries close for the after hours. Though the place looks deceivingly small upon entering, there is also a basement level (a la Congee Village) for big groups who want a private dining experience. They are open late, but the best time to go is during the dinner hour and even better if one can score a table on the weekend.