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
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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

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

Homemade Dim Sum

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

Jiang Nan Reminisce

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

Taste of Che-Li

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

Red Wine

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

White Wine

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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 Sancerre
Loire, France 2020
Bottle $69
Heymann-Lowenstein Riesling
Mosel, Germany NV
Bottle $79
Gehricke Russian River Valley Chardonnay
Russian River Valley, CA, USA 2019
Bottle $99
Domaine Gerard Tremblay Côte de Lechet
Chablis Premier Cru, France 2021
Bottle $99

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

Dishes to know on this menu

Sweet and sour: Battered pork, chicken or shrimp in a bright glaze of vinegar, sugar and ketchup or hawthorn, with pineapple, onion and bell pepper. The Cantonese original (gu lao rou) is tangier and less neon than the takeout version. On this menu as: Sweet & Sour Pork Riblets · Sweet & Sour Fish Fillet · Sweet & Sour Crispy Eel.
Shaoxing wine: Amber rice wine from Shaoxing in Zhejiang, used the way Western kitchens use dry sherry: to deglaze, marinate and round out braises. Drunken chicken and red-braised pork depend on it. On this menu as: Osmanthus Rice Wine · Yellow Rice Wine · Shao Xing 10 Year.
Tofu (bean curd): Pressed soybean curd, from custard-soft (for mapo tofu and soups) to firm (for stir-fries and braises). Fried tofu puffs soak up sauce; tofu skin (yuba) is the sheet lifted off simmering soy milk, rolled and braised or fried as a "vegetarian duck". On this menu as: Uni Tofu Stew · Yellow Lantern Beef Over Silken Tofu · Crab Meat Tofu Stew.
Xiao long bao: Shanghai-style "soup dumplings": a thin pleated wrapper around seasoned pork and a cube of gelatinized stock that melts into hot broth as it steams. Eat them from a spoon: bite a corner, sip the soup, then finish the dumpling with a little black vinegar and ginger. On this menu as: Pork Soup Dumplings · Crab Meat Pork Soup Dumplings · Black Truffle Pork Soup Dumplings.
Dim sum: The Cantonese tradition of small steamed, fried and baked plates (dumplings, buns, rice rolls, ribs) eaten with tea, usually from mid-morning to early afternoon. Dishes are priced by plate size (small, medium, large, special), so a table of four can try a dozen things for the cost of two entrées. On this menu as: Homemade Dim Sum.
Fried rice: Day-old rice stir-fried with egg, scallion and whatever the kitchen adds. Yangzhou (Yang Chow) style means shrimp, char siu and peas, and is the version most menus mean by "house special". Good fried rice is dry and separate-grained, never wet. On this menu as: Golden Egg Fried Rice · Stir Fried Rice Cakes.

How these dishes compare

Fried ricetypically $13.99 across 406 menus
Wontontypically $9.99 across 277 menus
Baotypically $8.95 across 206 menus
Sweet and sourtypically $15.73 across 196 menus
Kung paotypically $16 across 183 menus
Fish-fragrant (yu xiang)typically $13.95 across 171 menus
Mapo tofutypically $15.95 across 169 menus
Peking ducktypically $19.95 across 160 menus

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CheLi

Menu

Appetizers

Homemade Dim Sum

Jiang Nan Reminisce

Taste of Che-Li

Vegetables

Rice & Noodles

Soup

Dessert

Sake

Ginjo

Daiginjo

Honjozo

Nigori

Shochu

House Special Drinks

Beer

Yellow Rice Wine

Soft Drinks

Sparkling Wine

Red Wine

White Wine

Rosé

How these dishes compare

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