Author Archives: rundlea

Return to DumplingGo, NY, NY

Posted on May 4, 2015 by rundlea

I reviewed DumplingGo a couple of months ago but they have been changing up their menu recently so I decided to return and try their new offerings. The Dumplings:  for this outing I tried the Flounder Dumplings and Black Pepper … Continue reading →

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M Shanghai Bistro and Garden, Brooklyn, NY

Posted on April 27, 2015 by rundlea

Following on from the East Village, I have been expecting an explosion of dumpling restaurants in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood but it hasn’t really happened yet. There is an outpost of Vanessa’s and the nearby M Shanghai Bistro and Garden. While M … Continue reading →

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Canteen 82, New York NY

Posted on April 20, 2015 by rundlea

The co-owners of Canteen 82 hail from Malaysia and Hong Kong and the chef is from Shanghai, perhaps explaining the Asian-Fusion menu hidden behind the restaurant’s sub-title “Taste of Shanghai”.  The menu includes lots of American-Chinese dishes, Sushi, cooked Japanese … Continue reading →

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May Wah Vegetarian Market Frozen Vegetable Buns

Posted on April 13, 2015 by rundlea

Rating:   If you have eaten fake meat in an Asian restaurant on the Eastern seaboard the chances are it was provided by May Way, the go-to place for fake meat products and vegan dry foods since 1994.  Their line … Continue reading →

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Wild Ginger, New York, NY

Posted on April 6, 2015 by rundlea

  Wild Ginger, also known as LuAnne’s Wild Ginger, bills itself as providing pan-Asian vegan specialties based on traditional Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Thai, and South Asian cuisines.  They claim to make over two-dozen homemade sauces and to use local … Continue reading →

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DumplingGo, NY, NY

Posted on March 30, 2015 by rundlea

  DumplingGo is a new fast-casual chain starting up in NYC with a focus on health conscious food and packing Asian and Western flavor profiles into dumpling wrappers.  They have taken the Chipotle approach to ordering with instructions hanging above … Continue reading →

Posted in Kimchi, New York City, Pork, Uncategorized, Vegan, Vegetarian | 1 Comment

Cana Korean Restaurant, Chicopee, MA

Posted on March 16, 2015 by rundlea

Cana Korean Restaurant is a great find in Western MA; two other local Korean restaurants recently closed and the other one I know of in the Pioneer Valley is terrible. So this is my new go-to place for Korean food, … Continue reading →

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Mom’s Dumpling and Noodle, Amherst, MA

Posted on March 9, 2015 by rundlea

Mom’s Dumpling and Noodle is a little bit of a misnomer, it only sells two varieties of dumplings and three varieties of noodles.  The menu lists more rice plates that it does dumplings, and also includes kimchi, braised pork feet … Continue reading →

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Columbia University’s Chinese Food Cart Strip, NY, NY

Posted on March 2, 2015 by rundlea

Just off Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus you can find a string of food carts selling Chinese food. These are not hip new food trucks, but old school NYC coffee and falafel carts refurbished to sell Chinese food. They appear … Continue reading →

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Guide to Chinese Dumplings

Posted on February 26, 2015 by rundlea

As part of its ongoing Dumpling Month celebration Lucky Peach just published a Guide to Chinese Dumplings that provides a description and illustration of 36 different types of Chinese dumplings.  I am hungry now.

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