The basement area will have room for around 30 customers and will be reserved for private events.Ĭhen said he decided to convert the basement area into a private function space given his previous experiences dining in Long Island City. The restaurant will also offer cocktails, beers and wines, he said.Ī Chinese hot pot at Da Long Yi restaurant in Manhattan (Photo via Instagram)Ĭhen said the restaurant will have a modern look with seating for around 90 people on the ground floor. There will be a wide array of seafood options which will all be served raw, such as, scallops, squid, fish fillet, crab sticks as well as fish tofu, Chen said. Chen said that customers can customize how much spice they want in their hot pots and other dishes. The restaurant will also serve spicy pork ribs and spicy beef sirloin dishes as well as pork kidneys. He said it is also very accessible given it is close to Queensboro Plaza subway station.Ĭhen said the restaurant will offer a range of hot pots such as the benz tallow pot, the double flavored tallow bullfrog and the traditional beef tallow spicy broth. “I feel Long Island City has so much opportunity and it’s a good area to explore,” Chen said. The restaurant, Chen said, will offer a wide range of spicy dishes and he is also looking to attract people of other ethnicities in the neighborhood who enjoy such food. He has decided to try and capitalize on that gap in the market. He said there is a growing Asian population living in the area but not enough restaurants specializing in Chinese food.
He opened Da Long Yi’s Manhattan restaurant in 2019.Ĭhen moved to New York around 12 years ago and has lived in Long Island City for the last three years. The new restaurant will be operated by James Chen, 26, who is originally from Beijing. Both floors will be used by the restaurant to serve food with the basement area being used for private dining events. The Long Island City location will mark the company’s first in Queens and second in New York City following on from its Chinatown outpost in Manhattan.ĭa Long Yi, is taking 4,000 square feet at the Long Island City building, consisting of a ground floor space and an area in the basement. The vast majority of Da Long Yi restaurants are in China with other locations in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Canada and Singapore.
The company was established around nine years ago in Chengdu, the capital city of China’s Szechuan province, and has grown to more than 400 restaurants worldwide.
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