New Kam Lai Chinese Restaurant 514 Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10024

"This soup looks like an expertly landscaped koi pond that I could stick my head in, never come up for air again and it be all for the best"

"Food really varies drastically per dish. The good: - shrimp and vegetables which has big shrimp w a mix of fresh vegetables cooked just right at a good price. The bad: the beef is chewy chewy chewy, so much so it was inedible, and after going to the store to tell the store counter person, he refused to believe the meat was so tough, being that they "sell so much". Also the eggplant dish has a gooey sweet sauce that ruins the tasty eggplant, maybe you can order w a different sauce. Dumplings as mentioned, are overly inflated plump dough. It's mostly a take out restaurant w a few tables in front. Preparation is very quick."

"Utterly horrible food, most dishes contain an astonishing and repellent amount of sugar. Sauces that congeal… Thjs review is for the shop at 85th and Amsterdam. However, if you specify that you want your singapore mei fun made with less oil, that is, dry, it’s fairly good. I can’t recommend ordering anything else, everything seems to contain something extremely inappropriate, like the wrong vegetables for the dish, and horrible tasting besides. The draw of this place is its low prices and that they use their own delivery people, so the food arrives astonishingly fast. Rice is dried out. Not for Asians or anyone with an appreciation of Chinese food. And that’s true even if you don’t expect much."

"I entered my work building located nearby to find one of this restaurants delivery drivers demanding money extremely aggressively to someone right in the entrance. I was appalled at how rude the delivery biker was. Please do not do this again. Be nice and respectful please."

"Egg foo young was excellent. Large portion and very tasty. Pork fried rice had good pork and onion. Very happy overall and best Chinese I’ve had on the UWS"