Mooncake Foods

Mooncake, how I love thee. Your menu is innovative. Your ingredients are fresh. I only wish this location was a bit bigger since you’re so popular, but I appreciate how quickly you make your food to help get us in and out quickly without feeling rushed. This restaurant is truly a reliable, delicious spot in this part of the city.
Everything I’ve had here is tasty. Some favorites include the peashoot dumplings (steamed and green) to share, Vietnamese Pork Meatball Hero (with ample pickled veggies, daikon, and chili sauce), and the steak with Chimichurri. Prices are competitive for the amount of food you get and the quality of the ingredients. Mooncake is playful with their dishes while staying true to their Asian roots.
Don’t forget to snag the $ 3 Sapporo draft.
Cash only.

Okay the place is literally a whole in the wall and the prep is consistent in the very open yet über small kitchen that usual only has two folk at a time, yet they somehow make due and nothing is fried or traditional and I love that… I randomly came upon them exploring the digs of my new work neighborhood.
Their ribs and lobster mango summer rolls are my favs. And the overall portions are decent and proper for sure. At some point would like too do a sit down here for the full experience.

I ordered the tofu bahn mi and it came with a side salad and ginger dressing. I loved what they were shooting to achieve of the bahn mi as well as the stuffing but it had no flavor. It came with a green sauce and I used all of it.
Cash only.
The service was fast!

Average at best. Don’t even think about ordering delivery as you will be waiting 1.5 hours plus for your food to arrive.

It’s almost impossible for me to go into Mooncake Foods «cold» to evaluate it. I’ve already enjoyed food at their other two locations in Manhattan so I was already predisposed to enjoying this restaurant.
Blink and you’ll miss walking by the small storefront of this restaurant. In heavy contrast to its sibling restaurants, this one is a medium sized establishment that could probably seat about 20 people tops (and even then rather tightly). It’s not as tiny as the one downtown, but not as big as the one in the 30’s. The seating is comfortable and you get a full view of the kitchen from several of the seats.
I confess I decided to be boring and ordered items that I knew I loved already. This included the amazing chicken wings (still stellar after all these years) and the octopus salad (it never fails to amaze). Our service was really quick, though to be fair we were only one of three tables there that night.
This is a great spot for a modern take on Asian food. It doesn’t look super fancy but I like that. It’s comfortable, clean and pleasant. Take note: this place is cash only so be sure to hit the ATM before visiting!

I love coming here for lunch, the service is always quick. The lobster spring rolls are great, and me and my friends love the tea! A great value and always a good place to keep in mind.’

Quaint Asian diner. Fabulous lobster spring rolls, chicken curry soup and lemon grass soup. Amazing flavors and so fresh.

Great place in Hell’s Kitchen to get a healthy, cheap sit down dinner.
Gluten free and vegetarian options are abundant. Dinner plates comes with rice (brown or white) and a big side salad. Miso salmon is my personal fave, very reminiscent of a home cooked meal.
Staff is super chill with a surprisingly extensive beer list.

I love my lunches at Mooncake foods. They have a great tofu banh mi. The food always comes quickly and consistent. This location is small and can get filled quickly on weekday lunches. Their homemade hot sauce is great, but my only complaint is that it isn’t spicier.

Note this place is cash only.
Met a friend here around 6:30pm on a Tuesday. I was a little nervous that there wouldn’t be seating but it seemed like only 2 of the about 20 seats were occupied on the time.
We ordered 2 appetizers (dumplings and Vietnamese spring rolls) and 2 entrees (salmon and ribs). We paid $ 21 each. Enjoyed this spot, would come back again.

Food quality was high. Ingredients were fresh. Place is extremely small. Definitely not for groups larger than 4.

Great food, horrible seamless service– literally never on time.
The best food options here are 1) the wings 2) miso salmon

The food and selection here are solid. I got the beef kebabs and they could have use a better cut of beef. It was very tough.

This place really annoys me. I’ve tried to come here 3 times and every time I’ve been told they’re closed during their posted open hours. One night for cleaning, now the kitchen is closed a half hour before the restaurant closes? Maybe I’m being snotty but this really irks me. Hopefully when I finally get to try it I can update with 5 stars, because the food looks and sounds great.

This place is horrible. My gf and I got really sick from ordering online here. We usually eat here all the time but this time the meat taste like dog meat. Yes it taste was awful I know it want beef The food was very bad and discussing had a very bad smell. Maybe the meat was on a bad day.
Will never order here again.

I frequent the SoHo Mooncake weekly, I even recommend it to visitors to our firm. I absolutely love it. That said, I was CitiBiking around and ended up smack-​dab in front of Mooncake Hell’s Kitchen… obviously I headed in.
The broth used in the dumpling soups (my fave menu item) is not the same as SoHo. I mentioned this to the waitress, who works in both locations and agreed that SoHo «makes their broth differently». Broth is the absolute foundation of any soup… how is it that different locations would have different recipes for the broth? It tasted like water… super disappointing.
:(

My friends and I were around the area looking for a place for dinner after happy hour. We stumbled upon this place as per research on Unilocal.This little cozy eatery consisted of 6 tables. could probably fit no more than 12 people. Luckily when we went there were no one there except us.
Most of us ordered:
Crawfish and dumpling noodle soup
Miso glazed salmon
Sliced steak
Curry chicken stew
Grilled chicken.
All were so delicious!
Friendly staff also!

I’ve been eating a lot of Mooncake Foods lately due to its variety of choices. You can have either a heavy-​ish lunch or a light lunch here depending on your mood. It’s kind of a fusion place, but it’s not stupid fusion where they try to make creative things that turn out to be gross. Mooncake foods has fresh and healthy food and you don’t leave feeling like you need to go to the gym.
Most plates and salads are $ 10.95 which could be a bit steep for some for lunch, but you usually get a decent amount of food. The restaurant is also clean, cool, and airy and does not smell greasy.
I’ve had the octopus and spinach noodle a couple times — this is a good option for a light lunch that packs flavor. Note that this dish is a COLD dish and comes with plenty of chewy octopus! The spinach noodles are delicious and the perfect consistency and lay atop a bed of greens. The sauce is a bit pungent so might not be good for those that don’t do well with tangy/​fishy/​sour. Kind of reminds me of Vietnamese peanut sauce.
I’ve also had the seared tuna salad — the sauce they put on the salad is very, very strong and sour, but it goes well with the greens and tuna. Tuna is decently fresh and seared nicely. I ordered this for delivery, but I imagine it probably tastes even better when eaten at the restaurant.
The bf has had the salmon plate as well as the short ribs and liked both. The short ribs looked especially delicious.
The lime rickey is a nice refreshing drink with fresh muddled mint, but beware as it is quite a sweet drink.
Great option for lunch!

Everything is now half the portion used to be. See my photos for proof. Even the octopus salad meat was sliced thin enough to see through it, used to be thick and much more. Used to leave full, but now left hungry. I’m sure the owner will claim ‘higher costs’. So instead of raising price, just cheat the customer. Sorry but bait and switch doesn’t work on everyone. Never again!

The place may seem cool but it is basically an Asian diner. Generic, boring and bland food as you would expect at a diner. The only thing that was not bland was the dressing on the Thai steak salad. It had too much acid from the vinegar and I couldn’t finish it. The pea shoot dumpling had no taste/​imagination. They can do so much better.