Sunrise Restaurant

They serve green sesame balls?! Even though it tasted mediocre, I had to muster quite a bit of courage to take a bite.

Tried it once after it changed to Jing Star– I’m now a Sunshine 27 guy.

i used to love coming here with my family on a weekly basis but the food has gotten ehh. probably bc they switched chefs or something — there used to be 2 guys who recognizes my family so it was pretty sweet.

CLOSED!
It’s now Jing Star Restaurant —

closed. nothing to see here folks. carry on.
see Jing Star.

This place is great. I took my mom here when she was visiting. A perfect family restaurant. We went in here, and it was like we were literally in China. We were the only non-​Chinese people there. It was awesome.
We had to share a table with other families, but it was actually really fun. We ended up just ordering whatever we thought looked good, without asking what it was– and the Chinese mother-​daughter team sitting next to us were impressed with the dishes we got and ordered the same! proud moment, proud moment indeed.
Afterwards, we went to a herbal place and my mom asked for something that will give her energy and the lady gave her something that has similar effects to viagra– as in sexual energy. awkward. but the food didn’t come back up! therefore, recommended!

I’ve definitely had better dim sum. The food was mediocre and the service was standard for a dim sum place in chinatown or anywhere for that matter. The selection of items were pretty limited as well. Yes, they had the typical dishes like braised chicken feet, shrimp dumplings, egg custard, shu mi, etc. We ordered the baked bbq pork buns and it was practically empty. It was filled with nothing but air. If you wanted any fried items, you would have to ordered it from a waiter and there was only one person making it at the frying pan station. So, if you went in not knowing about the food and what you wanted, you wouldn’t be able to order them because there are no carts for those things.
The restaurant is pretty small. The three of us had to share a table with three other people. The prices were decent. It costs anywhere between $ 2 – 4 per dish. Our bill came out to be about $ 34.

They changed their name and ownership and this all seems to have had a negative impact.
I’m not sure if it is the cause or the effect, but there aren’t as many carts rolling around and when they do roll around, you see the same stuff over and over again. I waited and waited for several different things that never came around. The restaurant is definitely not as busy as it used to be.
I’ll be hunting for some new dim sum now.

3.5 stars
Hmmmm mixed feelings about this place.
First off the aunties pushing the trolleys here are really friendly (more like genuinely friendly but then aren’t they all? perhaps just a tad more so here. I guess it’s really the wait staff that are rude and pushy at most dim sum restaurants in NYC)
The spare ribs here were really good! So good that we ordered 2 plates one after another! Never before really. The shu mai, fried shrimp paste with corn and egg tarts were good. The har gow was not bad.
Other than that, everything else was passable.
— The rice noodles with shrimp was fine but was served to us COLD. Contrary to what other reviewers posted below, we were seated on the ground floor and not in the basement so there really is no forgiving to be served cold rice noodle!
— The rice noodles with fried dough. As with most restaurants that serve fried dough, they probably order from the same manufacturer — one that makes it really dense, rather than the light crisp types that I like. Perhaps the way I like the fried dough can only be recreated fresh and not with frozen dough?
— Shark’s fin dumpling — EWE. Pass.
— Rice in lotus leaf — Not good… the rice was not even sticking well and the contents within was like chicken skin??? instead of chicken meat.
Cheap dim sum meal … we stuffed ourselves silly yet this place was still cheaper than what we are accustomed to for dim sum in the city. Indeed well-​priced. However, it’s unforgivable to serve cold rice noodles…
By the way, cash only :(

hm where can i start? sorry friends, but eating downstairs was the first mistake our group made. it’s away from the kitchen, and everything has to be brought down a steep flight of stairs on a tray. everything gets cold and not much is brought downstairs in general. the tea didn’t taste too good and left a weird after taste. old favorites like shrimp and beef crepes, shrimp dumplings were decent, but almost room temperature by the time we got it. the dimsum lady downstairs was forgetful, though the wait staff itself was attentive. we also ordered youngchow fried rice (holds its own) and crab meat e-​mein (did not have enough flavoring) to end our meal. reasonably priced for what we paid, but as my buddy Hank says, I’d rather eat elsewhere where the food is, at minimum, steaming hot.
ps, now known as jing star.

Appears to be renamed as Jing Star.
Well, to say the least, don’t get seated downstairs. Worst service from a dimsum place in years, and the waitstaff speaks almost exclusively in Cantonese, which doesn’t really help those of us who speak in Mandarin or other languages.
The food itself for dimsum isn’t bad — they’re all pretty standard, although by the time they came down to us downstairs, it was only mildly lukewarm. We wandered upstairs just to get buns and shrimp dumplings. Upstairs has a small stir fry/​grill area, too, but the staff moves through the area quickly, it’s noisy and tight.
We ordered fried rice (okay) and noodles (too bland) to add to our food since it was really slow otherwise… while the price was good ($ 10/​person for 8 people total with tip & tax), the food and service ended up being very disappointing. I probably won’t come back here unless I get a seat upstairs, but am looking forward to trying something else…

After reading all the wonderful reviews, I decided to go there on a sunday for brunch with a couple of friends. I must say, I was disappointed. The place was only half full on a sunday at 1230pm! Granted, I have never had dim sum in Hong Kong, but I have had great dim sum in Southern California where the restaurants are huge, full of locals and all Chinese people, and the food is equally cheap, and they are always packed! Plus, the food taste better. Not sure if it’s because I am only used to the So Cal dim sum.
The food is okay, and I guess if you don’t want to wait in line for sunday brunch, this place is a decent dim sum restaurant to visit. The food is very cheap though. There were three of us, and we ordered so much food, it only came out to be $ 27.
We had to share a huge table with 2 other people. Kind of awkward, but it was definitely an experience.

Definitely non-​touristy, even on a Sunday at the peak hour of Dim Sum. Not an intimate setting but noise levels are manageable and the waiting staff can accomodate non-​chinese-​speaking patrons.
The food per se is not bad, very cheap but uninspiring. We had dumplings, rice crepes and some sweet dessert for about $ 18, which ends up being a good price/​quality ratio.

Sunrise 27 (now Jing Star?) always has consistently fresh, delicious food. I generally come here (rumpled, surly, and sleepy) on the weekends for dim sum and always leave stuffed and happy.
The only thing to complain about is that sometimes they’re a bit disorganised and it can take some time to be seated. At busy points, they start handing out numbers, which results in groups of people huddling by the doors and looking forlorn.
I love that the size of the restaurant is small enough for the carts (and accompanying aunties) to come around quickly and the fact that the high turnover from the kitchen ensures that plates are generally warm.
Anyway, this place is not touristy at all, but you can certainly get by without knowing Cantonese. I took my parents (two very fob-​by brown people) here last weekend and was highly amused at how we all got forks and (attempted) English explanations of all the dishes.

Decent Cantonese food with the live seafood tanks up front. Plenty of big tables so it can handle large parties. I came here for a banquet which was pretty good (but no dim sum). I’d stick strictly with the Cantonese food.
Bottom line: decent Cantonese food in a non-​touristy location with big tables, decent service and Michelin recommended. Open until midnight.

Here’s a fun story. One summer Sunday, Kath and I wake up after a long night out (apparently, I had decided to spend the night. Probably because she told me she was ordering pizza.) Anyhow, it’s a beautiful morning and as happens with a hangover, we’re both starving. Kath says she wants Dim Sum, I say I’m in and we fire up Unilocal to look for an authentic place. Sunrise 27 pops up with favorable reviews, seems somewhat easy to find so off we trot (Literally. She didn’t want to take a cab) So about an hour later we arrive at Sunrise 27. While it is only 10:30am, the place is packed to the gills. It looks a bit like a large banquet hall with lots of round, family style tables and everyone looks like they’ve been coming there regularly for years. We let them know there’s two of us and they seat us at a table with a family who smirks a little as we sit down (I definitely still had last night’s make up on and I think Kath was wearing her PJ top). Given there was somewhat of a language barrier, we go with the tried and true method of pointing and hand gestures. They have lots of different carts rolling about the place: one that serves just tripe and chicken feet; another that focuses on dumplings and many others with different treats that I had never seen before. I would love to come here with someone who knows what is what because we were just guessing (which was an adventure in itself). After shoveling food in our face quietly for a solid hour we flagged down the waiter and got the check. Um. I can honestly say we had probably about 8 – 10 dishes between us. The total? $ 15. Awesome. What wasn’t so awesome was my belly an hour later but I think that had to do more with the night before than anything else.

I really like this place for the typical big cantonese dinner with a billion dishes. My family frequently comes here, so we get non-​surly service, which says a lot compared to normal chinatown service anywhere. It’s slightly pricier compared to other places, but the Peking Duck, Seafood in a taro nest thing, and other main dishes are amazing. I also liked getting the mystery house soup reminiscent of the herbal soups that old Chinese women love to make, as well as free fruit and red bean soupy thing.
However, dim sum was pretty disappointing relative to the reviews on here. I hail from Boston, where there is dim sum, but it’s not great compared to NYC, so maybe I was expecting too much here. The har gow and har cheung were less than lukewarm, but to their credit they were made properly and did taste good. It also took a long ass time to acquire a waiter so we could order beef chow foon and chow mei fun. When we did get it, the beef to noodle ratio was lower than I expected. The kitchen looked like they were working pretty hard, but it’s not that big of a dim sum place, so I think stuff wasn’t getting around fast enough.
I’d give a 4.5 for dinner, but dim sum gets a 3.

I am having trouble telling differences in dim sum lately. I can say that the food tasted fresh for the most part. Some of the better dishes I had were the chow fun, chicken feet, bok choy, spare ribs, and those leek dumpilngs. Maybe the mei fun had a bad day…
The carts came around frequently with a big variety. Many items contain fish in some form or another. They had about 15 percent more variety of dishes carted around than what I am used to.
With such a large congregation, you can be sure the volume of food is heavy and therefore probably consistently fresh.

Best Chinese food I had in NYC. Fresh seafood. Really good dim sum and you should try the duck.
It also helps if you are Chinese. You might want to negotiate with the waiter ahead of time!

This has the best AUTHENTIC dim sum in New York!
It reminds me of dim sum in Hong Kong and Monterey Park: During the weekday, you’ll have older Chinese grandparents with their grandchildren, reading a Chinese newspaper, while the kids are eating hai gow. Weekends are bustling with large families and lots of carts moving through the dining room.
The food is always hot, even though it’s being pushed on a cart. They always have all my favorites: hai gow (shrimp dumplings), siu mai (pork and shrimp dumplings), fong jow (chicken feet), churng fun (thick rice noodles with something tasty inside), and plenty more. They have your standards for the less adventurous, but I always see the braised tripe/​daikon cart every time I’m there as well. They are lacking in vegetarian dim sum, but most authentic dim sum dishes will often have meat/​seafood in it.
Basically, this is the closest to the real deal that you’re going to get in New York. It’s a good sign that the restaurant has almost no non-​Chinese people inside, and don’t be scared that they don’t have General Tso’s chicken. Try something new. It’s good for you.