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After one visits the Tenement Museum, the wonton restaurant at 56 Mott Street in Manhattan is the go-to place.
The address 56 Mott Street, just off Canal Street, was once the location of one of the most classic tenements that the tour guides mention in the Tenement Museum, although today there is not much evidence of what was once there.
The restaurant at this location has undergone several facelifts and remodelings and name changes over the years, including Wonton Garden, New Wonton Garden II, and Wonton Noodle Garden. Whatever the place is called now, the food in this modest-sized Chinatown cafe has remained reliably good since at least the 1970s, and maybe earlier. For scenery, there is the comedy of watching 26-foot box trucks turning down Mott Street and then realizing they can’t go forward, can’t turn, and can’t back up.
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