Cheap eats usually means quick eats. Not so these chicken feet, which are marinated, steamed, then further tenderized when steamed together with rice. Freeing every bit of meat from the many tiny bones was the work of half an hour. More time for coffeehousing!
Kam Hing's Chinese owner retired a number of years ago, and a Mexican-American staffer took up the mantle. Little has changed. True, the steamed, eggy specialty of the house is now also prepared in newer, pricier, flavored variations — subtle green tea, overambitious chocolate chip — but the original sponge cake, shown at bottom, is as good as ever.
Kam Hing Coffee Shop
118 Baxter St. (Canal-Hester Sts.), Manhattan
212-925-0425
www.Facebook.com/pages/Kam-Hing-Coffee-Shop/113881975310475
Also at 81 Bayard St. (Mulberry-Mott Sts.)
917-868-0763
