Top 5 NYC Chinatown Restaurants from Josh Beckerman

Josh Beckerman is a professional entertainer (magician/comedian) and culinary adventurer who writes about the NYC restaurant scene for his website www.nycfoodie.com. He dines out every day at different spots all across NYC, eating everything, and entertaining everyone! Whether he is dining alone, or with a dining companion, it is always a magical culinary event! For your entertainment, we've enlisted the NYC foodie to put together a list of the best restaurants - for authentic cuisine and for what he thinks are some of the "best bangs for your buck" in NYC's Chinatown. Check them out below!

1. Tasty Hand-Pulled Noodles: "After two meals at Tasty, it has become one of my favorite restaurants in all of NYC. Not only is it the best hand-pulled noodles in town, but for $5 to $6 a dish, this is an amazing bang for your buck! I recommend everyone check this place out, even if you are not a fan of Chinatown or noodles, just go. You never know who you'll run into."

2. New Malaysia Restaurant: "A hidden gem of Malaysian cuisine. Flavorful and delicious dishes at great prices... You must order the most popular of Malaysian dishes, the roti canai ($2.95)...The best satay ($4.95) I've ever had is served here too. For sheer flavor it is a true winner. There might be more tender beef satays out there, but that peanut sauce smothered on these babies is so addictive, it had to request a restraining order against me to leave it alone...The Penang Prawns Noodle Soup ($5.95) is absolutely fabulous! The soothing and flavorful soup, has the most aromatic and effervescent shrimp and fish flavor. I would slurp this soup daily. I did twice last week. It's a true joy to eat."

3. Joe's Shanghai: "The dumplings here are so popular, they have a waiter to just take dumpling orders. Order them ($4.65 for 8!!!)! The broth is not too hot, flavorful, soothing, and wonderful! Add a little of the vinegar sauce too, for that extra tang!" Also, check out a video of the NYC Foodie's Celebrity Meal of the Week at Joe's Shanghei with Sarah Jessica Parker.

4. Pho Grand: "There are a lot of great Vietnamese restaurants in Chinatown, including the one I went to last week; Pho Grand. With flavorful and tasty crispy squid ($6.45) and fabulous Pho ($5.50), this restaurant is up there with the top."

5. Ping's Seafood: "I love dim sum, and go to Chinatown on a regular basis to consume a hodgepodge of these Chinese delights. There are a bunch of dim sum spots in Chinatown that I like, including Ping’s Seafood and Jing Fong."