Mulberry Meat Market

Just stopped in to look around. This place is a place I would shop. It didn’t smell bad, everything was cold. All looked clean enough.

Great selection of fresh and marinated seafood and meats stays open later (8:30p) than most others in the area. An after work gem for the home chef.

I discovered this place by accident while I was wandering around Chinatown. If you are looking for plentiful, authentic, CHEAP Chinese food, look no further because you will not get those in a better combination than at the Mulberry Meat market. It looks super shady, grant you, and probably smells even more so, but it’s pretty normal for a Chinese butcher shop to be like this (I don’t really think about the sanitary or lack thereof conditions of the place). But the costs here for the food are an absolute steal.
If you drop in for lunch, you can get the lunch box option which is rice with 1, 2, 3, or 4 sides all of which are UNDER $ 5. And it is a very hearty meal! The options range from sweet and sour pork to fried sole to fish cakes to teriyaki chicken to peanut pork hooves. Some of the options (like the meats) will land you a bit more quantity while the fried fish or meatball will be much smaller (1 or 2 pieces). I usually get the 3 sides and it comes out to $ 3.75. That is INSANE. And as a 180lb guy, it fills me up!
The food quality isn’t super great. I get their spare ribs from time to time and it has a lot of cartilage, which a lot of people don’t eat (I do). The sweet and sour pork can be very tough at times and the peanut pork has a lot of bones. But it’s cheap, and at the end of the day, I am eating what I paid for.

A great place to get lunch /​bbq meat in china town. They have those lunch boxes where you can choose what you want for like 5 or 6 bucks. And the ladies that work here always gives me extra large portions.
What I like best is their bbq meats, roast pig (suckling pig), roast pork (char siu), chicken wings etc. My personal favorite is their char siu styled chicken. The bbq their chicken the way people make char siu. So it taste like char siu, but since its chicken, it is healthy and half the price!

This is our favorite meat market in Chinatown. We frequent this shop every time we venture here for monthly groceries. Highly recommend the:
* Marinated pork chops– these are some of the most delicious pork chops and we always bring it to friends’ BBQs or serve them for dinner parties.
* Marinated Kalbi — again, same description as above.
* Chicken breast and drumsticks– way cheaper than Morton’s or Gristedes.
Love the very adorable and affectionate cat that roams around here!

I like their roast meat, especially roast pig.
Avoid lunch time, so crowded that barely move into the shop…

Without going into too much detail, this Mulberry Meat Market (otherwise known as Bei Chang) in Chinese, is primarily a butcher shop. Prices are on par with the meat markets on Bayard Street and Canal, which are very reasonable compared to other parts of Manhattan. As with two other meat markets in Chinatown, there is a good-​sized, cooked food section located to the left of the entrance. You can get all sorts of fried, stir-​fried cooked food by the pound. On a recent visit, I picked up a pound and a half of small chicken drums and thighs for about $ 6! There were at least 9 pieces of chicken in the box. The seasoning was pretty good. Compared to the $ 2 a piece cost of KFC, Popeyes or anywhere else, it’s a STEAL! I also order a big box of fried rice for $ 3.50, enough to feed 3 people.
Finally, in addition to the cooked food section and butcher, there is a small produce section to the right which sells very basic items like broccoli, carrots and onions.
Because of the one-​stop shop nature of Mulberry Meat Market, what’s not to love?

This place is great; it’s cheaper than its counterparts on Elizabeth St. and Mott St. I ran between those markets, and they sell things for cheaper for sure.
But the real star, the food. The food is great; much better tasting than Panda Express, but cheaper and more food for all. Seriously, they give you so much food for $ 4.50, it’s ridiculous that it isn’t showing up on Unilocal more often. Yes, it is intimidating to eat outside of the comfort zone/​neighborhood/​world, but try it, and you will see what I mean. I eat triple portions compared to the average Joe, and I am defeated by that place time and time again. I always have leftovers. Just go. Just. Go.

Seeing as I’m the duchess here now after 2 check-​ins, I’d better write a review. This is a medium sized butcher shop with one counter devoted to bbq-​ed meats, one counter for fresh meats (and about 3 – 5 butchers to assist you), and a refrigerated/​frozen area for pre-​packaged meats and a few random grocery staples.
The meat here is very fresh, the prices competitive, and what I like most of all is that the service is actually FRIENDLY. My inability to speak or understand Chinese is usually met with cold looks, but the butchers and girls at the register all speak decent English and smile!
I also tried the ready make bbq-​ed chicken wings which were delicious. I’ll have to try to roast pork next time.

Raw meat is fresh and cheap. Many varieties to choose from. They have fresh meat on the counters and prepackaged ones on the shelves. They also sell vegetables on the side. Got half a head of slightly wilted Taiwanese cabbage, but again it’s so cheap. Definitely using this place as my source of raw meat products.

I am a fan. The place is nothing to look at, but they have good fresh prepared food that’s cheap too. I love the Char Siu and the refrigerated dumplings. I have tried the char Siu chicken, as well. — it tastes like pork. I also get fresh vegetables there. I always stop by when I am in the neighborhood and I am never disappointed.

This is one of those places the locals go because it’s cheap, it’s fast and it’s good. In fact on a nice day, walk through Columbus Park a block away and count how many people have food that probably came from Mulberry Meat Market.
Presently I would rank the Meat Market 3.5 for the following reasons. The chicken wings are a 5 — juicy, flavorful and only about 43 cents each??? The people who work here have limited English skills (not quite as limited as my Chinese but almost…) but are very friendly. The steam table items I have tried are not as good as the wings. The fried rice tastes like boiled rice with tiny vegetables and their lomein is quite heavy. The other items looked quite oily. On the other hand the barbecued meats and poultry looked delicious and will be tried on subsequent visits. Bottom line. authentic, cheap and worth a visit!
PS: Did not try the uncooked meats but quality and prices looked good!

This is my source for meats — roast and raw.
The char siu is sliced in hefty, carnivorous chunks, the way it should be. Great cuts of meat, with the right mix of fat and gristle (when slices have individual ‘islands’ interconnected with fatty tissue, you know they got it right). I’m an adherent to the fatty style of roast pork done in Hong Kong and Malaysia, so this is still on the lean side for me. Errs on the salty side of salty-​sweet, but generally well seasoned.
Where these guys shine are the wings. I still hold the ones from Ping’s in the highest esteem, but these drippingly sweet, caramelized wonders aren’t far behind. Just remember that 30 seconds in the microwave awakens all the juices and meaty richness from within these shimmering jewels.
The raw section is well stocked, not the cheapest in Chinatown, but the quality and freshness is consistently high, more than I can say for many of the other meat markets. Stick with the Asian cuts (read: dark meat, bony cuts, fatty bits), and avoid the obviously Western ones (read: steak cuts, lean pork chops etc). Oh and dumplings too, both pre-​wrapped for lazy folk and separate skins and ready-​mixed fillings for those who like to pretend that they can cook.

I don’t normally eat chicken wings, but I’ll eat the chicken wings from here anytime. They even have char siu flavored chicken wings! I absolutely love the wings and most of the hot food here — and this is one of the only places my mom and I buy our meat. They do awesome cuts here — and they even have some pre-​marinated so all you need to do is cook it when you get home. Then add rice, or the pre-​cooked noodles (all you have to do is boil/​heat up) and you have an instant dinner! Plus, it’s super cheap. Thank goodness for Chinatown!
Don’t forget — cash only! You really don’t need much to make a full meal here though — and then you can eat it with your friends at Columbus Park or go home and eat it. Have fun exploring!

When you enter this market, you can either get raw meat on the right side or already cooked and prepared food on the left side. I see myself coming back for their cooked food because they’re so affordable and taste just as good as any other restaurants in Chinatown.
Up front is where all the roast and barbeque meats are, it’s usually sold by the pound or if you’re buying chicken/​duck — by the whole of half. They have rice boxes for $ 3.25 with 2 sides or $ 3.75 for 3 sides. I usually get the roast pork over rice which is only $ 3.75, you can’t get this amount of food for this price any where else. The rice box comes with vegetables and a ginger and scallion sauce to accompany the meat. Delicious and filling for under $ 5.
Their soy sauce chicken and roast pig is amazing also. They have really good fried chicken if you eat them fresh, if you wait too long they get too soft and soggy. Great place for a cheap lunch and dinner.

So you can be either disgusted or amused when you come here. Yes, the Chinese eat almost all the cuts and no it is not «gross», it is because we don’t like to waste food (if you are ending a life form for the purpose of food you might as well use up every possible bits of it…)
You can find many cuts that you normally wouldn’t in a regular western supermarket. They also have some freezers with frozen goods such as dumplings, wonton, baos, etc. I tried the shrimp and pork wonton, no bad.
It is cheap, and trust me, it is not organic.
ps. Cash only, duh we are in Chinatown.

Really thought I’d get a 1^st-​check in medal for this review. Can’t believe ya beat me to it. Bastards!
Very smaller butcher shop. The front is made up of already cooked meat than you can order and eat immediately (like a foot long skewer of a bunch of chicken wings).
The back is for raw meat. Everything here is cheaper. Premarinated pork ribs I sometimes get and freeze, they last a while, good and cheap. Even if you don’t speak Chinese, you can probably get by with the butchers by pointing and saying 1 or 2 pounds.
Don’t come here for premium meats — come here for cheaper stock meats. My favorites were the premarinated pork ribs (pai gu — like u get at dim sum), pork belly (about ½ price of a normal place), and oxtail (though it could’ve been meatier), and chicken «leg» (WAY cheaper here, prolly cuz it’s leg not breast).
They make their own mini dumplings here — I guess decent. And I got lo-​po-​gao (turnip cake) here, and it was really cheap and pretty good.

Chinese people eat all cuts of meat and Mulberry Meat Market has them all! I am a fan of this place and make a monthly trip here to stock up on cuts I cannot get elsewhere or stuff that is extremely pricey elsewhere.
My favorites:
*the chinese pork ribs which are cut really short (xiao pai gu). The only other place I’ve seen this on rare occassion is at a specialty cut at whole foods and they charged $ 5 a lb. Here it is $ 2.29 a lb.
*and all type of shabu shabu meat that are $ 4 here and $ 8 for the equivalent portion at Sunshine Mart on 9^th Street.
*Tofu is $.99 or $ 1.99 here. For the same tofu at markets uptown, they are $ 3 a pack.
*Every single part of a chicken.
*Black Chicken.
*Thousand year old eggs… perfect for use with the pork ribs for making congee!

If you can overcome the claustrophobia in here and deal with the rude old ladies who cut you in line, you will get a deal.

Cheap n dirty.
Awesome for cooked meats, wouldn’t get anything to eat raw from here though. That coupled with the fact I can get most any of these cuts at my regular butcher makes this spot little more than a stop for when I’ve got a char siu chicken wing craving.
That said, their chicken wings are pretty delicious.

Super low prices on their meat products! This meat market offers Chinese style BBQ pork, chicken, duck and other cooked dishes as well as a good selection of mostly Chinese style meat.
They have beef stew, flank steak but you won’t find skirt steak, sausage or sirloin steak. In terms of chicken, they have chicken breast, boneless thighs and some chicken parts that Chinese like. When it comes to pork, they have pork shoulders, pork chops, pork loin, etc.
They also have some pre-​marinated meat such as marinated kalbe, short ribs, chicken ball with mushroom, etc.
I wish they have more cuts such as sirloin steak, lamb chops so I could make Western dishes more easily. But with the prices they offer, I can’t really complain.