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Lava Kitchen, New York City, NY

The very recently opened Lava Kitchen is a spare, no design, stripped down casual spot serving Sichuan dishes.  The layout of the restaurant is such that every time the door opens a cold wind blows in from Broadway, luckily the … Continue reading

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Szechuan Garden, New York, NY

Each table top at Szechuan Garden has a built in hot plate to power the restaurant’s signature Sichuan hot pots.  For the hot pots you choose a stock, including the option of a vegetarian broth, selections from the list of … Continue reading

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Drunken Dumplings, New York, NY

Drunken Dumpling has been getting a lot of positive press since it opened a several weeks ago, particularly for its giant soup dumpling (see the NY Times piece).   I had my first giant soup dumpling about 5 years ago … Continue reading

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Mokja Korean Cuisine, New York City, NY

Mokja Korean Cuisine opened recently on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and is a spin-off of Mokja Korean Eatery in Astoria.  Mokja serves traditional Korean dishes and also some mash-up fusion dishes – for instance, the Bulgogi Nachos, which are … Continue reading

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Fourth Anniversary of Dumpling Hunter

Dumpling Hunter is celebrating the beginning of its fifth year in existence, having uploaded 245 posts and received over 48,000 page views.  The first post on 9/30/12 was a review of Nan Xiang Xiolong Mantou in Shanghai.  Dumplings have been … Continue reading

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Dumpling Trail in Richmond, BC,

The Richmond British Columbia tourism office has noticed that their city has a lot of fine dumpling establishments and have put together a Dumpling Trail for visitors to their city. You can visit the Dumpling Trail page here and the site … Continue reading

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Max SoHa, New York City, NY

Back in 2001 Max SoHa, short for South of Harlem, was one of the first restaurants in the ongoing transformation of the food scene in the adjoining Morningside Heights and South Harlem. Like its older sister restaurant Max in the … Continue reading

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Weird Ass Dumpling Videos

People have started to send me links to weird ass dumpling videos they find around the internet. I have seen several examples of Rube-Goldberg contraptions to shoot foods through the air and 3-second speed cook them, and Myth Busters did … Continue reading

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Wow Bao, Reagan National Airport, DC

Its all about context, when I originally reviewed Wow Bao in Chicago I gave them a mediocre review, but I was positively psyched to see a Wow Bao at the American Airlines gates at Reagan National Airport. I travel a … Continue reading

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Return to La Salle Dumpling Room, New York City, NY

I reviewed La Salle Dumpling Room a few months ago and raved about their pork and kimchee soup dumplings.  I have seen some negative blog posts and Yelp! reviews for this spot, but since I quite enjoyed my last visit … Continue reading

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