Hua Ji Pork Chop Fast Food

Hua Ji is one of my favorite place for lunch. I recommend their signature dish pork chop rice with egg, and popcorn chicken!

Fast food. The kind that is flavorful and filled with grease. If you like a good cheap lunch or dinner and like the flavor of grease this is the place to be.
90% of their menu is all fried food from chicken wings, pork chops or beef. It comes to about $ 5 per meal with 2 big pieces of fried pork chops with veggies and rice to fill you up for the day. It also comes with a small bowl of pork broth to go with the meal.
Seating is very limited here. Fits about 5 people in fact the whole shop is small.
It smells good, taste good but I’m sure it’s not so good for your health.

if you think the chicken leg over rice is all there is about this place, you’re wrong!
Their menu rice platters are grade A+++
I don’t know where their chefs worked before, but i would not be shocked if they came from TOP restaurants, They season the food good and its cooked with soul.
btw…just never EVER order the french fries. Disaster time baby!

There are 2 storefronts: you walk into the one on the right, place your order, then go outside, sit down next door, and they bring it to you. I’ve only had #1 and #2, the pork chop, pork chop with black pepper, over rice. Nice tasty brown sauce with chopped dill pickles on top! Comes with a soup with big chunks if something l’m pretty sure were vegetables. It tasted… exotic.
$ 6 gets you a big meal, and you can’t say that about many places in NY.

Love the chicken leg over rice! Lots of veggies under the chicken leg and the sauce within. Range downside is I got a chicken thigh but not a chicken leg lol

I’m not sure if they deserve 3 or 5 stars. So here is 4 (even though I’m not sure if that’s accurate) below is the breakdown (obviously the ambience is not the key to my review here.)
My friend and i we’ve been on a search for NYCs best Taiwanese pork chop rice. So far we both think hua Ji’s porkchop is a definite 5 star, but as a native Taiwanese, and a self proclaim porkchop rice connoisseur. A good pork chop rice is also about the toppings that goes with the rice (bien dang style) that unfortunately Hua Ji is missing.
Their topping was flavorless and pork sauce was overly corn starchy, I think compare to Taiwanese pork chop house (still my fav) is the culture difference as the cooks and owner there are mainland China and not Taiwanese.
I would recommend just going for their porkchop and maybe go somewhere else around Chinatown for rice dish.

I always come here for take out. Service is quick. Line move quickly. I always get the same thing. Chicken leg over rice. Ox tail with rice. Both come with soup of the day. What a great deal. This is the kind of comfort food I love.

This was the best chicken leg rice I’ve had in years. The fact that they serve them with a free small container of home style long simmered lotus root and pork soup was incredible. The food was so good, I wanted to cry. Their small restaurant has 6 little cramped seats, but they play live HK news channels, so if you just close your eyes you can imagine you’ve traveled to Hong Kong. I wish I could have it every day.

Small and cozy. Cheap and quick. What more could you ask for? Quality or quantity? For me it would be both! If you’re in the Chinatown area and craving for fine Taiwanese comfort food, I suggest you try other authentic Taiwanese joints. This is a typical New York-​style Chinese (FuZhou) fast food hole in the wall — skimpy portion with minimal service. Nay for me.

Meh. Everything is soggy. I prefer Excellent PorkChop House and May Wah BEFORE they changed owners. It seems like the gravy people rave about was just soggy rice. Either from too much water. or not letting the oil drain before putting it in the container. They’re friendly, but I’m rating only the food this time and it’s not good. The cup of soup to go with your meal is a nice touch, but keep in mind that soup is easy to make and it’s not that big of a deal. Just throw in some bones, beans, meat scraps and whatever you can find, boil and viola, you have a soup.
It’s not miserable food. I’ve just had better elsewhere on top of not liking how soggy everything was. The oil was black for god sakes. Do you really want to eat porkchops and chicken legs fried in oil that has been used so many times that it’s black? That’s probably the «indescribable» flavor their stuff gets.

I had the duck and pork fried rice, it was surprisingly good! The duck was cooked soft, and it was juicy, it was cooked with bak choy, and the rice was flavorful and nice!! the duck did have a garlicky after taste, the staff was very nice and patient and helped me pick a meal! They suggested what I would like and what I wouldn’t like, all in all I shall be back!

I am so glad I finally tried this place. Have passed by this place every weekend on Sunday, when it’s closed, and finally had a weekday to stop inside to order the popular pork chop over rice and chicken leg over rice. Small place with quick and friendly service. I can see how this place can get packed with takeout orders. Small amount of seating for those who want to dine in. Their style is a bit different from the traditional Taiwanese pork chop over rice but it’s just as good. The pork chop and chicken were both equally moist, tender and juicy, with just the right amount of crunch in a fried piece of meat. It comes with a lot of rice, some sort of sauce and good amount of veggies (cabbage). If you want the egg, it’ll cost an extra 50 cents but good to try if you’re ordering for the first time. The meal comes with the usual Chinese soups. Certainly will come back again and so glad to see this restaurant in the neighborhood.

There is such an amazing experience about visiting a hole in the wall places. We had a pork chop over rice and chicken leg over rice — two standard Taiwanese dishes. Sat in the bar type nook that seats 6 total, some complimentary soup was placed in front of us which is always a sign of Chinese hospitality. Soon enough the men behind us who I thought were waiting for their orders started screaming at the television: Holland vs Netherlands World Cup. This dive had personality.
Now the food was good– lacked a bit of seasoning like my usual places like Pork Chop House or May Wah, but the fact that they cut up the pork chop for you is appreciated.

Ordered delivery from this place. Person on phone was friendly unlike other places where they rush u to order then hang out real quick. Delivery from this place was real quick.
Had the beef brisket with eggplant over rice. The beef brisket was nice and soft, not too chewy. They included a few pieces of tendon. Was just delicious.
The chicken leg over rice appears tasty from the other Unilocal review and gonna try that next.

This is a VERY small restaurant and can probably be categorized as a hole in the wall in Chinatown. I’m not a huge fan of the area of Chinatown this restaurant is located in because it is a bit sketchy on Allen Street, but it was well worth the trek! When you walk in, you’ll notice the menu is posted right above the counter so it’s very easy to find what you want to order. When ordering, I found the service to be surprisingly friendly, in terms of the demeanor of the employees taking my order. After placing my order, I looked around and noticed there was a small TV in the «dining area», which is made up of a few stools and a counter, with no actual tables. It sort of reminded me of a cleaner version of Prosperity Dumpling.
As for the food, I ordered their most well known dish, the Chicken Leg over Rice (just like May Wah and Excellent Pork Chop House). I felt their Chicken Leg over Rice was pretty good because the Chicken Leg was really crispy and the rice included alot of meat sauce, although it was a bit lighter and less flavorful than what they have at May Wah. The Chicken Leg reminded me of the Chicken Legs that street vendors sell in a paper bag. I kid you not! It was a bit greasy and more fatty than what I was used to. Also, there wasn’t much Suan Cai/​Chinese sauerkraut included in the rice either. Barely a few specks of it. I did like that they included a small tupperware of soup, which was pretty good, with the rice. The total came out to $ 5.50.
I really liked Hua Ji’s Chicken Leg because of its crispiness, but the restaurant is a bit out of the way if you don’t live on the lower east side portion of Chinatown. It’s a worthy contender against May Wah and Excellent Pork Chop House, but May Wah is still the undisputed champion to me!

I was brought here on the recommendation of the incomparable Robert Sietsema, now writing for Eater, and continuing his lengthy tradition of finding excellent dishes at undistinguished storefronts.
Hua Ji is quite close to where the Yo! Bus — a Greyhound spinoff that travels from Chinatown to Chinatown — takes on passengers to Philadelphia and Boston. I’d actually wandered in here one before in search of a meal before heading on board. I was both overwhelmed and not impressed by the length options, which included a few Chinese-​American dishes and dozens of bowl options which various pig organs and Chinese vegetables. I went to another place in the neighborhood that was an old standby.
After reading Robert’s blurb, I realized my mistake. I came back and ordered the namesake pork chop, covered in a thick black bean sauce that is popular in Taiwan and parts of Southern China. I lost the vegetables as the thick, gummy preparations common in the region aren’t too my liking.
The results were fantastic. You’ll have to eat it with less arm and leg room than on a Spirit flight, but dishes like this make you realize why the Chinese word for meat also simply means pork. These people know how to cook a piece of pig.
This should go without saying, but when the pork is so good, avoid, avoid, avoid the Chinese-​American options like Sesame Chicken that are available. I saw a couple of these go out the door enroute to unsuspecting Howard Johnson’s guests next door and they looked vile. There are places that specialize in those dishes, and this isn’t one of them. If you’re all the way down here in Chinatown, eat like a local — or at least a noted New York food critic.

Got the Fried Chicken with rice. There was more cabbage than anything on this plate. Very little meat but still pretty decent.
I thought this place would be as good as Excellent Porkchop House but the answer is simple: Nope.

For the longest time, I’ve only known of two Taiwanese pork chop places in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and out of the two, people usually talk about Excellent Pork Chop House. About two months ago, I discovered this place and found that they very much should be part of the conversation.
Pretty much a hole in the wall, with seating capacity for about half a dozen people only. They sell noodles soups and stir fry rice dishes but the best reason to come here is for their Taiwanese Pork Chops and Chicken Leg Over Rice. They costs $ 5.50 each.
Both are very lightly battered and deep fried but surprisingly neither one of them are greasy. This fact surprises everyone that tasted it when I informed them of how it was cooked. The order comes with white rice with meat sauce, bits of ground up pork, then covered in a thin layer of pickled vegetable and steamed cabbage.
The Chicken Legs have a nice slightly crispy skin and although it doesn’t really need it, for fans of Sriracha, this goes very well with it. You could find Sriracha at the counters where everyone eats at.
The order comes with a thin watery soup of the day.

I have a buddy that told me if a Chinese pork chop place that her bf goes to all the time but never tells her where it is, spp if she wanted it she had to ask him for it. I think I found that place! (But unlike her bf I’ll tell you where it is lol)
I’m not normally on this area, so forgoing why I was here, they food was pretty good and the price was excellent. 5 bucks you get a large fried pork chop over rice with cabbage and some preserved veggies. I watched the guy cook mine since it was right the and I think it’s a double fried piece of pork which is probably the secret to the deliciousness of it all. Mmmmm… thinking about it again…

Bonne cuisine chinoise roborrative et pas cher. Une bonne alternative au dumplings restaurants si on se lasse …

Yes! I am a fan!
Loved their chicken and pork chops here! No weird meat taste! they marinated really well to get rid of any unwanted meat taste! And fried until tender and juicy with a crispy and flavorful skin!
If you get the chops over rice, they put it on a bed of white rice with Chinese pickled vegetables, cabbage and this minced pork meat sauce. Not a big fan of the minced pork meat sauce tho! but whatever, wished they put more of those Chinese pickled veggies
Definitely the best pork and chicken chop I tasted in Chinatown!
More of a take out place, few seatings only
Will return again!