Author Archives: rundlea
Nix, New York, NY
Nix is a Michelin starred vegetarian and vegan restaurant serving dishes drawing upon cuisines from across the globe. The separate vegan menu is essentially a sub-set of the overall vegetarian menu and includes about 75% of the dishes on the … Continue reading
Fifth Anniversary of Dumpling Hunter
This, the 300th post at Dumpling Hunter, marks the 5th anniversary of the launch of this blog! In this time the blog has accrued 69,351 page views from 42,441 visitors, with vegetarian and vegan being the most viewed topics. The … Continue reading
Rising Moon, Organic White Bean and Kale Ravioli
Rating: I was originally looking for vegan ravioli in my local food co-op and these caught eye. It turns out that they are not vegan but they sounded really good and I was thus detoured from my original mission. … Continue reading
Bao Battle: Western MA Edition
Bao Battle: Western MA edition compares bao from Banh Mi Spot and Tran’s World Market, two places I have written about before (Banh Mi Spot: here, here, here and Tran’s: here). Banh Mi Spot began as Banh Mi Saigon, a tiny … Continue reading
Sangkee Noodle House, Philadelphia, PA
I was really pleasantly surprised by the Sangkee Noodle House in the lobby of the Sheraton University City Hotel. I had to be in Philly for work and I got into the hotel late on a miserable rainy night and … Continue reading
Mi Lah, 30 Street Station, Philadelphia, PA
Airports and train stations in the U.S. are usually a wasteland for finding vegetarian food, let alone vegan food. It is so bad that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine rates an airport restaurant as “healthy” if it has a … Continue reading
Ocean City Restaurant, Philadelphia, PA
Dim sum after a night of drinking too much and dancing at a Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ show has become a tradition. This summer I hit the show in Philadelphia and luckily Philly has a Chinatown. It is centered around Vine … Continue reading
Telegraph Street Area, Berkeley, CA
Telegraph Street is the main commercial strip abutting the UC Berkeley campus with lots of Korean, Japanese, Chinese and fusion joints catering to UC Berkeley’s students. I expected that this would be a good restaurant row to spend an afternoon … Continue reading
Ginto, San Francisco, CA
Ginto is advertised as an izakaya and sushi bar and is part of the Tokyo based Rama restaurant group that runs over 150 restaurants mainly in Asia. Izakaya are usually small casual pubs, but Ginta has taken the concept of … Continue reading
Yank Sing, San Francisco, CA
Yank Sing is open every day of the week and is one of the top rated dim sum houses in San Francisco. It was originally opened in Chinatown by the current owner’s grandparent in 1958. In 2001 it moved to … Continue reading
The search for the world's best dumplings 