If you're ever in the area (Avenue U bet E. 18th & 19th St) and looking for good eats stop by this establishment. It's a mom and pop restaurant that has been a fixture in this area for some years. I only order to go since discovering this spot but they do offer indoor seating for meals. Though the wait staff don't speak English well but they take your orders quick and have you on your way unless they're busy at the order window which can happen a lot. They have a variety of meats to order like what I got which is the BBQ Pork which I highly recommend. The rest of the menu is good for other Cantonese food items. read more

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We did takeout even though Google reviews were more negative than positive. Cantonese wonton noodle soup, roast duck and Chinese BBQ Pork were all very good with good amount of food. Just double check the receipt to make sure the cost of each item matches what they charged. You can also verbally check the prices of each item as you order to avoid incorrect receipt. This restaurant food may compensate for rude staff and lack of ambiance. Food taste is more important everything else for me so Yes I do recommend this restaurant. read more

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Food: The food is delicious here! I ordered Three Meats Over Rice - concubine chicken, honey roast pork, and duck. All of the meats were moist and made very well. The meats come over a bed of rice and cabbage. This place is known for their roast meats. You can order the meats by itself or over rice or noodles. Their tofu pudding is also very good, one of the best and smoothest I've had in NYC. Service: The place is run by a bunch of ladies, and all of them are very friendly and attentive. Excellent service here. Ambiance: The restaurant is set up for takeout orders in front or dining in in the back. The space isn't that big but they have a good number of tables for both big and small groups. This restaurant is meant for quick meals rather than longer sit down meals. Overall, I would recommend this place! read more

Double Red - Tofu Pudding - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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Standard Cantonese eatery for your roast meats, steamed rice rolls, congee, soup noodles and clay pot rice. They've recently reopened their indoor dining section so it's a really solid spot for a casual lunch. I came by with my family last Saturday and our only qualm was that service was a bit slow but we later found out that they were understaffed due to another location's grand opening that same day on 8th Ave! All of the dishes that we shared were delicious though none of them particularly stood out. I'd probably recommend the clay pot rice (not sure if you can find this anywhere else on Ave U) and maybe the HK style lo mein. My mom mentioned that they cook their lo mein here a bit differently, with a bit of "wok hay" that you don't typically find elsewhere. And of course as a self-proclaimed steamed rice rolls connoisseur, I thought the rolls here were pretty good but not the best. They were not as fresh & springy as I'd like, but they do the job if you're craving them. I enjoyed the mixed sauce one over the roast pork one. I wish I had tried the tofu pudding/custard but perhaps next time! I did however get the crispy honey roast pork to go for dinner (which seems to be their speciality meat) and thought it was too fatty. The texture (and look) was interesting (see photo) - the pieces of meat seemed to be composed of both meat and fat but texturally it was heavier on the fat. Was it actually just all fat?? Idk, I wouldn't recommend and would stick to the classic roast pork. read more

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Fast, casual Chinese restaurant on Ave U. They have another location on 86st. Their roasted duck and other meats run out pretty quickly throughout the day. Usually ducks are sold out by late afternoon. Dined in one day and service is good and quick. Price is quite affordable as well compared to other restaurants nowadays. Can get a filling meal for under $10. I ordered pork congee, pork intestine hot sour noodle soup, and a wonton noodle soup. All delicious comfort foods that give a taste of home. read more

Great small Chinese restaurant that serves barbecue meats as well as congee. They also make churn fun which are fresh to order and can come with multiple ingredients such as shrimp, beef, egg, dried baby shrimp, cilantro, and other things like roast pork as well. The staff is mainly Chinese although they can help you in some English. But you really should come here knowing what you want to order. Yelp is a great source for pictures. If you are unsure of what you want you can get a bowl of noodles have a full meal for under $10 if you are not too lavish with your spending. read more

Double Red - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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I absolutely love this place. Their three meat rice dish is amazing! Their char siu, faw yook, and chicken are all done very well. I also like ordering their tofu pudding (tofu fa). And if you order a vegetable from them, it's a legit vegetable that's boiled to perfection and to the liking of an old taishanese man. The service is nice as well as it's managed by women it seems. You can also call to order in advance to reserve the meats before they close up for the night. I called one hour in advance before I got there and glad I did because there was a long line out the door of people asking for char siu. I saw menu options for some kind of sour noodle soup with peanuts and rice noodle options. Overall a reliable place to find things to satisfy my craving. read more

Double Red - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

A traditional old school Cantonese roasted meat restaurant, selling the basics. Unhappy with the rice rolls. A large portion for the price but texture lacked finesse. A bit on the goopy side. Some people seem to like this texture though. I prefer it to be smooth and silky. A favorite among the elders was braised fish with bitter melon over rice. This is the first place I've come across that doesn't bread and deep fry the fish pieces. It's stir fried with the bitter melon until tender. So it was a favorite with the health conscious. Roasted meats. Okay, not great. Service: servers were busy bustling around, but they still had time to come over and check on us. Environment: old school basic decor, smallish restaurant with some seating. Portions were a good size. Prices reasonable. read more

I haven't eaten here, so I can't speak much on the service. But this place has the best BBQ meats to take home and eat with rice! The quality is consistent and their meats are nice and juicy. The ladies in the front are always nice. read more

The best steamed rice rolls on all of Avenue U. Clean, reasonable prices, & friendly. Beware of not getting enough tho - those rolls go down so easy and are so good, make sure you get extra. Also, make sure you get them w/ the egg in them. My family all loves this place ! read more

Double Red (火火燒臘店) seems to be an expansion of Double Fire on 86th Street (which I've never visited), since they share the same Chinese name, a very similar logo, and menu. Double Red specializes in Cantonese roast meats on top of noodles or rice. Food: Basic, but Good (3 of 5). Value: Very Good (4 of 5). The dishes we've had include: - "Honey Roast Pork on Rice" (叉燒飯): Double Red gives a choice of two cuts -- lean or fatty -- and a lot of meat. A lean cut is a littler drier and costs a little more than the fatty cut, but I can eat every lean piece while I tend to eat only parts of fatty pieces. - "Honey Roast Pork Lo Mein" (叉燒撈麵): the "Lo Mein" noodles are plain, but I can understand there are some constraints due to pricing. This dish might be better as take-out, so one may dress up the noodles to preference. - "Honey Roast Pork Steamed Rice Noodle" (叉燒炊米粉): Menu #61. This noodle soup uses mei fun noodles. - Roast Pork Rice Noodle Roll (叉燒腸): a bit mushy and chewy in texture -- not as good as premium places like Yin Ji, but also much less expensive. - Soy Sauce Chicken on Rice (醬油雞): the chicken was slightly overcooked and under-flavored. - Wonton Soup (淨雲吞): decent, and you get a lot of them. - Roast Duck: slightly underflavored, but quite acceptable. Dine-in table service is good for a place that is essentially a no-frills operation, although they do serve complimentary tea. Service during the times we visited was handled by the front kitchen, which is also responsible for all the roast meats, noodles, wontons; and take-out, which accounts for most of the customer volume. Double Red might become understaffed as indoor dining opens up. The staff were polite and friendly, and we appreciated how well they packed our leftovers. The back kitchen, which handles more complex dishes, wasn't in operation during the times we visited -- weekday and weekend lunch. Overall: Very Good (3.5 of 5). Double Red serves up good food inexpensively, and is a good place to satisfy one's cravings for Chinese-style meats when in the neighborhood. read more

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This place opened recently & my family has been raving about the food for a week straight. Skeptical, I went and tried the food myself to provide an honest review. Every food I tried during this meal was some of the best I have had in a long time. The meats I had on top of my soup were extremely fresh and had better flavor than the other Chinese restaurants in the area. The wontons were tender and fresh, reminding me of some I have eaten in Hong Kong. The clay pot rice was a surprise as I didn't think I would be that much of a fan, but I was so wrong. The meats were tender, and the flavor of the mushrooms was amazing as if it were marinated prior. The sauce was delicious, although we felt as if we needed more. The steamed rice noodles weren't our favorite, only because we had other amazing dishes in front of us. We must say it lacked meat, but that's just because we are huge meat eaters and that's what we were looking forward to. The concept of the kitchen being in the front for customers to see us fun and we loved watching the chefs cook our food (especially making the steamed rice rolls.) You can't come to an authentic Asian restaurant and expect top tier service, and that's the truth. There's no comparing this restaurant to American ones where the servers are always attentive, but that's just how the culture is. This place is clean and the flavors of the food are incredible, and that's what matters. read more

Double Red - Wonton noodle soup with roast pork - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Ordered delivery from them and portions were terrible, they only give a few pieces of beef for the beef stew orders and the wonton mein had FOUR tiny WONTONS!!! Would never order from here again! read more

Small Chinese restaurant located on avenue you. I was craving some cha siu fan. I ordered the rice noodles with peanut butter and hoisin, hot and sour beef soup, and roast pork with noodles. The food comes out quick and it hits the spot if you want a cheap, quick meal. read more

Double Red - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

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I love this place! This might be my favorite spot on Avenue U, and even beyond. Their steamed rice noodles are amazing - my favorites are the pork or rosated pork rice rolls, with an egg to top them off. Their soups are fantastic as well. The glutinous rice balls soup is delicious and very comfortable to eat. I haven't seen this dish sold anywhere but here; before this, I was only able to eat it when relatives cooked it. So it reminds me of good home cooking! Side note - this 'glutinous rice balls soup is also commonly known as "Winter Solstice Soup", or "Tang Yuan" soup. It's a very traditional dish, and Double Red does it in traditional Cantonese style. Here is some general information about this dish in general: https://www.adayinthekitchen.com/chinese-winter-solstice-soup/ I love the hot sour noodle soups as well! These are NOT the Chinese take-out style hot sour noodle soups that you might be thinking of. are different - delicious and comfortable. The beef version is my favorite; I have had and enjoyed the sliced fish one as well. The soup is full of great flavor. It's not very spicy; it's rather well-balanced. read more

Double Red - Beef hot sour soup. Soup was packaged separately for take-out, so that the noodles don't get soggy. Just pour it in and eat! - Cantonese Near Me - Brooklyn, New York

Figure while I was in Brooklyn, my aunt told me this place has pretty good roast duck, pork and chicken. I'll give it a try. I walk in they said the roast pig just came out. I said ok, give me two bones, butcher guy says I'll cut you nice piece...well he didn't. He did a switch and gave me old pork and dry pieces. The skin was not crispy so who knows how long it's been sitting out. Such a disappointment! read more

The steamed rice noodles (crepes) are delicious! Freshly made to order (so awesome) so it's best to order by phone 20 mins in advance if you don't want to wait. Reasonable prices, and they are generous with the toppings (and portion in general too) unlike many other places. Their fried cruller dough (youtiao) is fresh and delicious! read more

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Their beef brisket noodle is to die for! Most often when the family craves beef brisket, we'll het it from here. The brisket is cut into cubes and is very soft/chewy and gelatinous! Super flavorful! Goes well with any type of noodle soup! read more

I've only tried their roasted meats and they have been decently good. It is old school Chinese. I've had their char siu and soy sauce chicken leg and wings. I do prefer the chicken legs, over the wings, as somehow it has a better taste. The owner is friendly but she does try to upsell you. The prices are not too crazy so I am usually open to trying new things and might take the offers. So far the food has been good. It is best to come early as they do sell out of popular items quickly. read more

There are several areas which the restaurant is lacking. Customer service: No greetings to start with. When I placed the order, I had to call them over a few times before they come to me. Then they forgot one of my order, I had to remind them when they said they were finished. The entire wait time was about 30 minutes for 3 different simple dish. In the mean time while I waited, I saw this middle age lady reached her hand into the rice pot and scooped a handful of rice with gloves on, puts half handful into her mouth to taste, and then throw the rest back. Pricing: The price is clearly indicated on the menu yet when I paid for my order, I was sort if scammed. One of my dish was Hot and Sour noodles, which supposed to come witty soup. The lady who packs the food separated the soup and noodle in two different bowl and had collected me an extra dollar for the service. I was never told about the extra pricing nor asked about how I want my food to be packed. Pricing was more expensive than other similar restaurants in the hood. Food Quality: My order consisted of fresh fish congee, hot and sour noodles soup, and steamed beef rice noodle. Only the fish congee was acceptable for the taste. The hot and sour noodle soup that was recommended by the restaurant was the worse hot and sour noodle soup I've tasted so far in my life. The noodles weren't potato made noodles, they were regular Chinese style vermicelli. And lastly about the steamed beef rice noodle, it is not acceptable because the noodles were very broken at the stage that I could barely use chopstick to pick them up. Regarding my order, it was total of 23 dollars. I don't thiNk I'll ever go back again for another round. Worse experience of the day. read more

Horrible service! I order just a honey roast pork n soy sauce chicken over rice! It took them 1 hr n was never delivered! Never will come back again!! read more

Was dying for some noodle on a cold day. So decided to try this restaurant for the first time. The place looks small but not really small. The kitchen is near the bathroom and there people who cut the roast pork and other meat up front. We order a few dishes. Mainly I order was some congee, some bread thing for the congee, wonton soup, Cheng fun with fish all and seafood noodle soup. The order came pretty fast. The only what took a little longer was wonton soup. Cheng fun was ok. The congee was good. The bread is hard but thanks to the congee it make it soft. The seafood noodle was good it had different seafoods from fish, clams and crab meat. The wonton was alright a little undercook. So when was ask for the bill. The lady gave the bill and just stand there to get the bill and money. Which I think it was kind of rude. So after I gave the money to get the change. She gave the change but waited for me to give the tip. So when she had to do something I put the tip on the teapot. She came back and laugh. I was thank goodness I give you a tip if not I would give you nothing. So overall experience the foods was ok. Alright there is some sweet soup for dessert which is ok. Would I come back here. Maybe not but we see. read more

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Walked into the restaurant and order a couple dishes for my family! 45 minutes later, a worker came over and ask what did you order and who placed the orders for you! We got so angry that left the restaurant and went to eat Vietnamese respect door instead. Never again.... read more

It the first time I take home order crispy honey roast pork it very good I will go back to buy again.

Pretty good service, roast pork, duck and chicken are pretty decent. Their rice roll is freshly made. It's a bit more expensive than the others on Avenue U, but the portion is a bit bigger. Their clay pot rice is quite good too, and the portion is huge as well. Overall, it's a nice addition to the neighbhorhood. read more

This place just opened and wanted to try it out for the roasted meats and poultry. Got there around lunch time and expected it to be crowded but there were plenty of tables. Waited a few minutes to be seated and no one approached so we just grabbed a table on our own. Then waited around for a waitress to bring the menus and tea but we're ignored and had to flag one down. Again it wasn't busy at the time. So after looking through the menu a were ready to order, we had to wave over a waitress again. So now from the time we walked in to just wanting to order food at least 25 minutes had passed by. Finally got to place our order. We decided to get simple dishes just to try the food, a wonton noodle soup and roast duck/pork over rice. So we waited about 15 minutes for a simple wonton noodle soup to arrive first so I told my friend to start eating. I waited and waited for my roast pork and duck over rice to arrive, my friend had already finished her noodle soup by this point and she's a slow eater. At this time I'm ready to leave. I again had to flag down the waitress to get the bill and told her to cancel my order. They apologized but this was a nightmare. My order is the most simple order that should've been out in no more than 5 minutes but it never made it. This is just about the service. Now about the food that made it to our table, a simple wonton noodle soup....this is the first time I've seen this dish where the broth was cloudy in appearance!? It's not ramen!!! The wontons were just meh and they gave you only four medium sized wontons. The noodles were sub par as they didn't have the firmness that many of the better restaurants serve they also just gave you cheaper cabbage for a vegetable instead of Chinese broccoli. Over all it took almost an hour process to jus end up with a wonton noodle soup that wasn't worth it. You maybe asking why I didn't ask the waitress to check on my order. Here's why, so I can truly see the efficiency and competency of this new restaurant so that this review is untainted. Forgot to mention when we were serve the tea , my cup was dirty and for a new restaurant they looked old and used for awhile. Definitely WON'T be back. read more