Jing Fong is simply a name the original owners came up with, perhaps because it had good feng shui and means “golden wind,” in Cantonese, says Claudia Leo, one of the restaurant’s executives.

Jing Fong, which opened in 1978 and moved to its former, two-story home on Elizabeth Street in 1992, was largely recognized as Manhattan Chinatown’s largest dim sum hall.

While Jing Fong’s employees are supposed to get severance, they won’t have an easy time finding new jobs during a full-blown employment crisis in New York’s restaurant industry.

Jing Fong, alongside every other restaurant in the city, was ordered to shutter its dining room on March 16 to curb the rise of COVID-19 cases.

Jing Fong, Manhattan’s largest Chinese restaurant, is dead. When I visited on March 2, the two grand escalators ascending to the third-floor banquet hall were frozen.

Jing Fong employee Yan Ling Dong serves customers tea at Jing Fong Saturday, March 27, 2021 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams) Black pepper beef ribs. pan-fried shrimp and chive dumplings ...

Jing Fong's Upper West Side outpost—a small fraction of the Chinatown restaurant's 20,000 square foot—will remain open. Tagged. COVID-19. coronavirus. indoor dining. jing fong. Chinatown.

Jing Fong opened in a smaller space on Elizabeth Street in 1978 during one of New York City’s bleakest periods, when the city was battered by a financial crisis and rampant crime. Mr.

Jing Fong, the dim sum destination, will close its Chinatown banquet hall and indoor dining in March. However, they will continue to operate delivery and takeout service, plus outdoor dining, at ...