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Is Nom Wah Tea Parlor Still Open? Best Thing I Ever Ate Update

Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11 New York, New York

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Nom Wah Tea Parlor is listed open on nomwah.com, reviewed by our team on September 15, 2026; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website returned HTTP 200 listing the Doyers Street location among several currently active locations with working order links. How we decide a status →

What happened after Best Thing I Ever Ate?

Best Thing I Ever Ate (Food Network) featured the restaurant in its Holiday Delights episode (S11E5). Nom Wah Tea Parlor is a dim sum restaurant at 13 Doyers Street in Manhattan's Chinatown, describing itself on its own site as Serving Dim Sum Since 1920. The site, checked September 8, 2026, returned an active page listing multiple current locations - Doyers, a Market 57 stall, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas - plus working pickup, delivery, and catering-order links, nationwide frozen-dumpling shipping through Goldbelly, and a merchandise section. The same page listed a services-and-inquiry form for private events. No closure, relocation, or ownership-change report was found for the Doyers Street location in the sources checked.

The episode Best Thing I Ever Ate, Season 11

Air date not confirmed
Title: Holiday Delights · What was featured: the dim sum parlor's century-old Chinatown menu

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  1. nomwah.com https://nomwah.com/
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