Food Adventuring Around NYC
You’d think I was savvy enough to purposefully start my dumpling search knowing full well it would coincide with the Chinese New Year. But you’d be overestimating me. Let’s chalk it up to dumb luck. Or maybe I just have a subconscious knack for these things. As any self-respecting dumpling blogger would do, I decided …
Tasty Dumpling, the tiny storefront facing Columbus Park, seems to always be packed with people. And not all of them are ordering dumplings. During the 20 minutes or so I spent inside the shop, I counted at least 5 people that came in solely to use the prominently displayed ATM machine in the middle of …
There are a number of reasons not to eat at Shanghai Café (now called Shanghai Café Deluxe) on Mott Street. First off, they have been undergoing some lawsuits filed by six former employees who accuse the restaurant of breaking certain labor laws. They were paid well under minimum wage, forced to work overtime, and the …
A dear friend of mine was in town and we decided to meet up for some dumplings. She was one of my eating buddies for many years until she moved away to Ohio. Who moves to Ohio? I was excited to see her and to get another sampling of soup dumplings. I picked the new …
SADLY, FRIED DUMPLINGS IS NOW CLOSED. When a restaurant names themselves after a specific menu item, it had better be good. I don’t know any pizzeria that touts the name: “Pepperoni Pizza” or “Margherita Pizza”. To name yourself after one dish almost alienates everything else on your menu. I don’t think I would ever order a …
SADLY, C & L DUMPLING HOUSE IS NOW CLOSED. \Most of these dumpling houses are so segregated in Chinatown that it’s hard to get much information on them. Trying to find a website, a menu online, a company back story is next to impossible. Besides an entry on yelp and some unhelpful blog reviews (like …
If Time Out New York can do it, so can I. I’ve been inspired and satiated by Time Out’s 2009 Top 100 list and look forward to conquering their 2010 list very soon. But from now until the end of the year, I present my own Top 100 Dishes of the year in reverse order. …
SADLY, PROSPERITY DUMPLING IS NOW CLOSED. My first dumpling venture taught me quite a few things. It taught me that this is going to be much cheaper than any of my previous searches. Even ice cream was running me close to $5 a cone. I think I’ll leave most of the dumpling shops with a loss …
If you grew up in this country sometime during the last forty years, odds are you have a childhood memory of eating Chinese food. But the Chinese food we consumed (most likely Cantonese) probably was more Americanized than we realized – egg fu young, pupu platters, and chow mein. And at the end of those …
These are a far cry from the cakes we’re used to in this country. I could not imagine sticking a candle in and presenting this to anybody as a birthday offering. They’d have to really like root vegetables. Taro is a root vegetable that most people in this country know only from healthy chips. They’re …