Gates Down At 4th Avenue’s Good Fortune Chinese Restaurant

A neighbor sent word that the Good Fortune Chinese restaurant, located at 524 4th Avenue (between 13th and 14th Streets), suddenly closed its doors last week. The tipster added that employees were “outside the building, shouting at each other and loading what appeared to be some large refrigerators into a couple of vans,” late Tuesday night, which doesn’t bode well for a reopening.

Thursday afternoon, the gates remained down, so if you have a hankering for Kung Pao chicken, you might want to check out some of the other area takeaway joints. For quite some time now, the go-to place in our family has been Far East Chinese Restaurant (471A 5th Avenue, between 10th and 11th Streets). We have a tendency to order the same thing over and over again (sesame chicken), and it’s always been fresh and tasty.

Where is your favorite neighborhood spot for Chinese food?