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The Very Last Dumpling Restaurant in the East Broadway Mall - Eater

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The very last restaurant in NYC’s once-bustling East Broadway Mall is hanging on, one tray of dumplings at a time U nderneath Underneath the creaking blue and white trusses of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City is a beige building that spans a city block that contains a maze of shuttered storefronts. For decades, the East Broadway Mall, known as Yi Dong Lou in Chinese, was a bustling center of Chinatown, at 88 East Broadway — an auspicious address that was well-regarded as far away as mainland China. Once, it was a place for the Chinese diaspora to eat, socialize, and shop: There was a stationery store, as well as places to buy bras, stamps for collecting, and antiques. On the top floor was 88 Palace, an enormous banquet hall draped in red curtains and golden reliefs of phoenixes and dragons. It was consistently packed on the weekends for dim sum service. Now, Yi Dong Lou is largely abandoned. But past a dingy vestibule shaggy with peeling posters, through the flickering mezzanine,

Eater Archives The Holdout The very last restaurant in NYC’s once-bustling East Broadway Mall is hanging on, one tray of dumplings at a time by Wei Tchou Photography by Wenting Gu Feb 22, 2023, 2:15 PM UTC Underneath the creaking blue and white trusses of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City is a beige building that spans a city block that contains a maze of shuttered storefronts. For decades, the East Broadway Mall, known as Yi Dong Lou in Chinese, was a bustling center of Chinatown, at 88 East Broadway - an auspicious address that was well-regarded as far away as mainland China. Once, it wa

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