CheLi

Name: CheLi
Address: 19 St Marks Pl, New York, NY, 10003, US
Telephone: 646-858-1866
Price range: $$$

Shanghainese$$$

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Sun-Thu 11:30am-10:30pm, Fri-Sat 11:30am-11pm

19 St Marks Pl, New York, NY 10003
646-858-1866
Last verified: September 2026

Overhead spread of Shanghainese dishes at CheLi including a steamer of soup dumplings, crab-meat tofu stew, poached shrimp and lotus-root stir-fry

Appetizers

Wine Soaked Chicken$17
Marinated chicken in Chinese yellow wine & goji berries (served chilled)
Sliced Poached Chicken$15
Scallion soy sweet sauce (served chilled)
Hangzhou Braised Half Duck$22
Half duck
Crispy Smoked Fish$16
Osmanthus & thick braising sauce
Braised Abalone & Calamari$25
Sweet & Sour Pork Riblets$15
Sixi Kaofu$12
Marinated wheat gluten & braised vegetables (served chilled)
Spicy Sliced Pork Kidney$12
Chili, Szechuan peppercorn & bean sprouts (served chilled)
'Vegetarian Goose'$16
Julienned vegetables in braised & fried tofu skin rolls (served chilled)
Wine Soaked Blue Crab$14
Chinese yellow wine (served chilled)
Osmanthus Chinese Yam$10
Diced (served chilled)

Homemade Dim Sum

Pork Soup Dumplings$7
(4 Pieces)
Crab Meat Pork Soup Dumplings$8
(4 Pieces)
Black Truffle Pork Soup Dumplings$10
(4 Pieces)
Chinese Crispy Lava$12
Black crispy pastry with duck egg yolk custard (3 pieces)
Pan Fried Wontons$9
(6 Pieces)
Black Swan Durian Crisps$15
(3 Pieces)
Song Dynasty Steamed Buns$8
Steamed & sweet osmanthus sauce
Brown Sugar Sticky Rice Rolls$12
Pan fried pinwheels with peanut
Matcha Milky Rice Cakes$18
Stuffed Red Dates$15
Sticky rice center
Osmanthus Rice Cakes$10
(3 Pieces)
Steamed Dungeness CrabM.P
Steamed egg & minced crab meat
Fried Ribbonfish$19
Chili salt & vinegar sauce
Qianlong's Favorite Fish Head$33
Braised with fresh peppers
Steamed Yellow Croaker$32
Fermented rice, salted ham, mushrooms in yellow wine sauce
Garlic Shredded Eel$32
Oil poached with garlic & bamboo shoots
Hot Stone Spicy Chicken & Pork Intestine$26
Fresh chilis & vegetables
Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet$25
Whitefish, pine nuts
Crispy Duck$32
Half duck
Kung Pao Chicken$17
Peanuts & Szechuan chilis
Shanghai Style Mao Xue Wang$32
Spicy stewed offals
Salted Ham & Bamboo Shoot Stew$25
Pork skin & egg
Stir-Fried Spicy Lobster$39
Szechuan chilis
Green Chili Shredded Beef$26
Green bell pepper
Nine-Spice Rabbit$28
Tangerine Crab Meat & Steamed Egg(单人9) $26
Black fish roe
Uni Tofu Stew$32
Pickled Cabbage Fish Stew$32
Boneless fillets, chili & Szechuan peppercorns
Hunan Stir Fried Spicy Beef$28
Cilantro, chilis
Stir-Fried String Beans$17
Dry fried
Eggplant in Garlic Sauce$16

Jiang Nan Reminisce

Spicy Crispy Pork Knuckles$27
Crispy fried, red chilis
Che Li's Pork Belly$27
Quail eggs & braising sauce
Sweet & Sour Crispy Eel$32
Shredded eel strips in sweet & sour sauce
Chinese Crispy Lava$36
Dark vinegar sauce
Longjing Shrimp$27
Tender poached shrimp in tea sauce
Stir Fried Prawns$25
Scallion & ginger
Braised Pomfret & Rice Cake$32
Yellow Lantern Beef Over Silken Tofu$33
Habanero, scallion & white pepper sauce
Golden Crust Dungeness Crab$75
Salted duck egg yolk
Yang Zhou Meatball$14
Pork, clay pot soup
Spicy Lamb Stew$30
Fresh peppers, and scallions in cast iron pot

Taste of Che-Li

Flaming Beggar's Chicken$36
Smoked chicken stuffed & wrapped in lotus leaves, flour clay
Qianlong's Favorite Eel$30
Scallion, cucumber, Chinese crepes
Crab Meat Tofu Stew$23
Salted Yolk Fried Pumpkin$19
Cubed pumpkin rice cakes
Ginger & Chili Frog$34
Garlic Butter Lobster$29
With garlic & butter sauce
Che Li 'Squirrel' Fish$42
Crosscut & deboned striped bass, sweet & sour glaze
Sweet & Sour Tenderloin$20
With sweet & sour sauce
Mapo Tofu$16
Minced pork and spicy pepper sauce
Grilled Beef Ribs & Peppers$32
Flame-broiled tableside in black pepper sauce
Garlic Steamed Butterfly Prawns$28
Over glass noodles

Vegetables

Sautéed Sponge Gourd$19
Sautéed Water Spinach$16
Garlic
Pea Shoots in Chinese Wine Sauce$20
Lotus Pond Stir Fry$16
Sliced lotus root, carrots, snow peas, asparagus, wood ear mushrooms

Rice & Noodles

Hot Stone Braised Rice$26
Boletus mushroom and green pepper
Golden Egg Fried Rice$18
Seafood, ham & pine nuts
Uni & Pu'Er Tea Soaked Rice$18
With sea urchin
Stir Fried Rice Cakes$16
Shredded pork & shepherd's purse
Shanghai Stir Fried Noodles$17
Shallots & shredded pork
Salted Ham Mixed Rice$15
Mixed vegetables
White Rice$2

Soup

West Lake Minced Beef Soup$18
Chinese water shield
Chicken & Morel Mushroom Stew$26
Shredded lamb, wood ear mushroom & egg in vinegar sauce
Herbal Mushroom Soup$19
'Yan Du Xian'$24
Fresh & salted pork, tofu skin & bamboo shoots soup

Dessert

Walnut Puree$8
Meiling Congee$12
Sweet rice porridge & goji berries
Black Sesame Sticky Rice Balls$8
In lotus root starch
Osmanthus Milk Pudding$8
Peach Resin, Red Dates & White Wood Ear$8
Stewed & served chilled with coconut milk

Sake

Ippongi Ginkoubai Plum Sake
Suehiro ‘Poochi Poochi’ Sparkling$25
Nanbu-Bijin Plum Sake$60
Yamato Omoi Yuzu/Matcha$56
500 ml
Tanaka Chartier Tokubetsu$119
500 ml
Kozaemon Umeshu Junmai$119
500 ml

Ginjo

Kikusui Junmat
Makiri Junmai Super Dry$99
Hakkaisan Yukimuro Junmat$139

Daiginjo

Oze x Rose Junmal$69
Nabeshima Junmai Yamadanishiki$139
Dassai 23$159
Kubota ‘Senshin’ Junmai$199
Fukuju ‘Black’ Junmai$249
Asahi-Shuzo ‘Tsugu’$799

Honjozo

Daishichi Honjozo Kimoto Hot$16
200 ml

Nigori

Dassai 45

Shochu

Ginza Suzume Kohaku Mugi Barley$20
200 ml
Kishu Yuzu Umeshu$56
720 ml
Imo Shochu Hamanoimota Sweet Potato$70
720 ml

House Special Drinks

Milk Tea with Yellow Wine$8
Plum Juice$9
Osmanthus Rice Wine
Pear Juice

Beer

Tsingtao$6
Kronenbourg 1664 Blanc$6
Sapporo$6
Orion$8
Kyoto Yuzu Ale$9
Kyoto Matcha IPA$10
Kyoto IPA$12
Rydeen IPA$14

Yellow Rice Wine

Nu Er Hong$15
Draft
Shao Xing 10 Year$55
Pagoda Benjiu$155

Soft Drinks

Coke/Diet Coke$3
Coke/Sprite with Cane Sugar$5
Wong Lo Kat$3
Arctic Ocean$4
Fiji Water$4
Yuzu Organic Sparkling Water$7
Bruce Cost Ginger Ale$7
Pomegranate Ginger Ale$7
Rose Sparkling Lemonade$7
San Pellegrino$8
720 ml

Sparkling Wine

Cava Sparkling Wine ‘Dry’
Rioja, Spain NV
Isotta Manzoni Prosecco ‘Semi Sweet’Bottle $38
Veneto, Italy NV
Champagne Piaff Blanc de BlancsBottle $99
Champagne, France NV

Red Wine

Tassajara Pinot Noir
California, USA 2021
Novas Organic Cab. Sauvignon
Valle del Rapel, Chile 2020
Istine Chianti ClassicoBottle $59
Tuscany, Italy, 2020
Farella Lot 2 CoombsvilleBottle $79
Napa Valley, California, USA 2020
Santenay Premier Cru BeaurepaireBottle $99
Grand Vin De Bourgogne, Merasault, France NV
Chateau Pontet-FumetBottle $99
Saint Emilion Grand Cru, Bordeaux, France 2016
Miguel MerinoBottle $129
Rioja Alta, Spain 2014
Farella Alta CoombsvilleBottle $299
Napa Valley, California, USA 2016
Bruno Rocca BarbarescoBottle $299
Barbaresco, Italy
Opus OneBottle $799
Napa Valley, California, USA, 2018

White Wine

Scarbolo Pinot Grigio
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy 2020
Taonga Sauvignon Blanc
Rhine Valley, Germany 2020
Von Kisel Gruner Veltliner
Halbturn, Austria 2020
Schlink Riesling Spatlese Nahe
Rhine Valley, Germany 2020
Andre Dezat & Fils SancerreBottle $69
Loire, France 2020
Heymann-Lowenstein RieslingBottle $79
Mosel, Germany NV
Gehricke Russian River Valley ChardonnayBottle $99
Russian River Valley, CA, USA 2019
Domaine Gerard Tremblay Côte de LechetBottle $99
Chablis Premier Cru, France 2021

Rosé

Maison Marcel Rosé
Champagne, France NV

Menu items and prices are approximate and may have changed — call the restaurant to confirm.