Nan Bei He

They are opening one up in Oakland Gardens/​Bayside Hills. Right in my neck of the woods, I can’t wait! They’re one of my favorite chinese restaurants!

This location is closed. The owners of Nan Bei He are also owners of King 5 Noodle House at :
3907 Prince St (1G)
Flushing, NY 11 354
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First off, they moved to 39 – 07 prince st 1g in flushing.
You know it’s a good Taiwanese place when each table has a giant vat of preserved cabbage free for the taking (shuan tsai).
With one order of stinky tofu, came a huge plate with over 10 pieces of WHOLE bean curd (usually they’re served in halves). The beef noodles were stewed all day as the beef was super tender. We also ordered beef wrapped in green onion pancake which was also huge. As a Cali guy who’s had the finest, traditional, and also cheapest Asian food in socal, I’d rank this place pretty up there. Oh yea and their bathroom is auspiciously clean for a small (er) Asian place.
Only knock is the sauce for their stinky tofu was a but weaksuace (was just soy sauce and green onions) and kimchi could use stronger flavoring.

Would you like to experience good real Northern Chinese and Taiwanese breakfast? then come here! I wish the restaurant would move to my block, so I can be on first name terms with everybody there and they will learn to love me and Nan Bei He’s goddaughter. Ok, not really…
This place shouldn’t go wrong for you. I know plenty of sane and local people with good taste buds that have been coming here for years. The place projects some cleanness compared to many other restaurants on Main St.
For breakfast items (btw, they don’t start that early in the morning, they open at 9am), they have sweet or salty soy milk. Salty soy milk is hot unsweetened soy milk with little chunks of goodness: dried shrimp, pickled mustard greens, fried shallots, etc.) with some rice vinegar in it which makes the dish semi liquidy because the acid curbs up the soy milk slightly into tofu form. Also sweet chives pan fried pao, salty pancakes with beef slices, white turnip pao… typing this makes me hungry.
Besides breakfast items, most of the items on the menu are also very good and authentic. The flavors are quite good, taste like something that comes out from your Chinese friend’s mom’s kitchen which means that the production is nothing grand and the service is your typical order, eat and get out of there but I have never had a bad experience at this restaurant.
Also worth mentioning that the family plan meals are awesome. You can choose dishes according to how many ppl you have and they come with soup and obviously rice. Totally cheapass…
And remember… Cash only! You are in Flushing… what ya think?

HERE WE go. Local/​native queens reccomendation. Just about every native/​local comes her for good taiwanese food. Come here without a native if you dare.
I rec’d the getting the 3 dishes + 1 soup deal for $ 16. I love their loofah veggies, kong xing tsai with sa cha sauce, bamboo shoots stir fry with shredded pork etc etc etc. Oh an this basil chicken dish. Good stuff man.
They have VERY authentic taiwanese food that reminds me of home cooking. Also, get the beef wrapped appetizer (breakfast item?). Specifically request it to be wrapped in an onion pancake. This place does it right.

yup it’s that time of the year again.…you know what i’m talking about.. .that one sunday when your friend has some chinese-​food-​enthusiast friend in from out of town, and you manage to catch them on gchat between dinner and going out on saturday night, and somehow you wake up unhungover before 10 – the stars have miraculously aligned so that you can take your once-​a-​year trip to flushing for brunch.
nan bei he came highly recommended from a flushing-​resident friend and it more than sated my california-​taiwanese-​food-​refined palate. all the classics are here: doujiang, youtiao, shaobing jia rou, fan tuan etc. the youtiao was…correct. fresh-​out-​of-​the-​deep-​fryer-​hot, crispy, hollow, oily– nothing like the fried-​dough-​like mush in chinatown. we sniffed around for stinky tofu, but i think that might be the one classic that was missing– luckily, stinky tofu doesn’t make great breakfast anyway so we didn’t much mind.
it’s true, the service blew. the best part was when the waitress came over about 30 mins after we received our last dish and i told her that we hadn’t received our dan bing or fan tuan, and she goes, «oh! you didn’t get the dan bing! i know you didn’t get the fan tuan, but you didn’t get the dan bing either?’ she was so suspiciously shocked that the dan bing hadn’t come out it was as though she intentionally failed to bring out the fan tuan.
anyway. who gives a crap about bad service. 4 of us got in and out of there for $ 18 total. i have no complaints.

I’ve been obsessed with Taiwanese food as of late, due to a trip to Taipei this summer that left me head over heels in love with shaved ice and stinky tofu.
This little place in Flushing is probably one of the most authentic places to get Taiwanese breakfast! Start your day off w/​the following:
— Sweet or salty soy milk: Have it sweet if you favor a lighter drink accompanying your heavy, carb-​loaded meal. Ask for it salty, and your waiter will bring you a bowl of soft tofu, swirling around in some chicken stock and topped off with pork and shrimps. I prefer salty soy milk, but stick to sweet if you aren’t as adventurous.
— Niu Rou Jia Bing (Sesame Pancake Wrapped w/​Beef) Definitely a must-​have here! The sesame pancake is crispy and hot, with layers of beef and hoisin sauce tucked inside. MMM MM GOOD!
— You Tiao (Fried Cruller/​Donut) The Chinese version of a donut. Rip into lil strips with your teeth and dunk into your soy milk.
— Dan Bing (Egg pancake) Scallion pancake and fried egg rolled into a wrap. It’s like a Chinese burrito.
TIPS:
— Cash only, what did you expect? This is FLUSHING, my friend.
— Breakfast is only served from 11:00AM-2:00PM. If you come here too late in the morning, sometimes they run outta food.
— Don’t expect good service, just come here for the food.
Now go and get yourself some stinky tofu and a oyster pancake, sit back, and pretend to be a true Taiwanese.

OK, I will not tell a lie, I probably would not have venture here to have dinner, however, the whole family (Chinese) was in tow, and my aunt suggested this place. When we walked in, I thought to myself, oh great, another drab, dingy looking chinese place. BUT… once again, don’t judge a book by its cover. They make excellent food. Everything we had was really good, including the soup dumplings, the steamed veggie dumplings, the complimentary chick broth soup (my mom aked for seconds). The best part of this meal was the eggplant. I am an eggplant freak! Love this purple plant! Anyhow… they make the BEST AUBERGINE I HAVE EVER HAD. Lots of basil, and a bit spicy. I am still dreaming about it now…

Recently I’ve been on a Taiwanese food binge, partly cuz I’m really into stinky tofu and partly cuz honey is Taiwanese. Anyway, came here for traditional Chinese bfast…
Service: had to minus a full star for the service here, I mean usually service at a Chinese restuarant like this is not good already cuz let’s be real it’s not the service that keeps customers coming back… but this place took the cake with bad service. The waitress took forever to come take our order, took away my hot sauce (no one touches my hot sauce) before I was done using it bc another table wanted hot sauce and then took 36 378 338 383 years to bring us our food!
Taste: typical Chinese bfast food, sweet soybean milk, salty rice ball, the most memorable dish there was the scallion pancake with beef… Other than that nothing worth mentioning .
Price: avg 5 per dish
2 people, 5 dishes = 22 bucks cheap bfast, not worth enduring the poor service though!

Love this place, too bad they are closed for «renovation.» their xiao long bao is delicious, but i go for the soy milk and shao bing yo tiaow. closest thing to Taiwan food.

Went there today. It was closed for health safety reasons. Maybe they’ll reopen after a while???

What to say about Nan Bei He? It’s hard as hell to find – another «Chinese only» restaurant that most people wouldn’t give a second thought to unless a native brought them there.
Their Taiwanese breakfast was good, no doubt. It had all of the things I require: soy bean milk (sweet and salty), scallion pancakes (with and without beef), you tiu, and xiao long bao (soup dumplings). All of the food was good, came out REALLY fast – almost suspiciously so – and was at least 2 or 3 bucks cheaper than nan shian (my go-​to place).
But the food tasted… dirty. If you’ve ever eaten at the hole in the walls and street vendors in China, you’ll know what i’m talking about. It just doesn’t taste like the meat is… meat. The pork is a little too red, the soup too unnaturally fatty. Don’t get me wrong, it was DELICIOUS. I just wasn’t sure what I ate at the end of the day, which… let’s be honest. May not be that bad of a thing.

this place can be hard to find if you don’t read chinese. the english name is nan bei («south north») but you won’t see that anywhere on the storefront or even on their menu. its all in chinese. it is next to a small wine shop on the north side of 40^th road. its worth a trek to get here.
the food is tasty and cheap. they have all your typical shanghai style breakfast foods. especially good are the beef with sesame cake, scallion pancake rolled with beef and salty soybean milk. the beef they use is braised shank, very tender.
they have very good shanghai soup dumplings too — although more expensive than the shanghai hot pot place across the street but way tastier and higher quality ingredients.
my martial arts senior brother invited a visiting master to a meal here. they ordered the soup dumplings and he loved them so much he ate them all up. they ordered more and again polished them off. they kept ordering and ordering until they were full. when they were done the head chef came out and said to them «i just had to come out and see for myself who could eat 108 dumplings in one sitting!» he glanced at the empty dumpling trays in astonishment, grinned at them and said the meal is on the house.

I love this place for Taiwanese breakfast. It’s got all the staples which I will list here with my favorite translations that may or may not sound appetizing (or humorous) depending on how much chinese you know.
— Shao Bing — Multi layed sesame pancakes
— Xian Dou Jiang — Salty soy bean curd… Try the tian dou jiang (sweet soy bean juice) if you’re less daring.
— Yiu tiao — Oily tails. Salty and greasy fried dough cruellers that you eat inside a shao bing when you’re carbo loading or as an addition to xian dou jiang
— Fan Tuan — Rice wads filled with pork floss, pickled vegetables and oily tails
— Niu rou jia bing — rolls of braised and sliced meat inside a scallion pancake type wrapper with scallion and hoisin sauce
*drool* It’s authentic, delicious, and cheap as hell. I share all of the above with a few friends and never spend over $ 15 a meal including tax and tip and we always end up too full to walk.