Shun Lee Palace

Shun Lee Palace

Shun Lee Palace is one of several New York City Chinese restaurants that claims to have invented the popular dish General Tso's chicken. [General Tso's chicken] The owner claims that crispy sea bass and orange crispy beef were also invented at the restaurant; but as with General Tso's chicken, this claim is uncorroborated. [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59302-2002Apr16 Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken? (washingtonpost.com) ] ] . It is located at 155 E 55th St. between Lexington and 3rd Avenues, and opened in 1971. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9905EEDD1E3CF934A25751C1A9659C8B63 "For Some, It's a Very Moo Shu Christmas"] ] This site is known as Shun Lee East.

They have a second restaurant, called Shun Lee West (opened in 1981), which is attached to a less expensive sister restaurant, the Shun Lee Cafe, at 43 West 65th Street near Lincoln Center. It serves such dishes as Szechuan Alligator, which the menu describes as "crispy chunks of tender alligator showered with Szechuan sauce". [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9905EEDD1E3CF934A25751C1A9659C8B63 New York City's Shun Lee Cafe on the Upper West Side: An Affordable Alternative to Shun Lee Palace] ]

In a 2003 interview, proprietor Michael Tong estimated that 70% of his customers are Jewish [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9905EEDD1E3CF934A25751C1A9659C8B63 New York City's Shun Lee Cafe on the Upper West Side: An Affordable Alternative to Shun Lee Palace] ] and that he goes out of his way to accommodate them - including being open on Christmas and catering to Kosher customers. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9905EEDD1E3CF934A25751C1A9659C8B63 New York City's Shun Lee Cafe on the Upper West Side: An Affordable Alternative to Shun Lee Palace] ]

External links

* [http://www.shunleepalace.com/newyork/ Official Website]
* [http://events.nytimes.com/mem/nycreview.html?res=990CE1D81330F936A1575BC0A963958260 "New York Times" review]

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