Author Archives: rundlea

Beyond Meat Vegan Beef with Ginger and Onion Dumplings

Posted on February 23, 2015 by rundlea

By focusing on texture and mouth feel Beyond Meat has revolutionized the meat alternative market. I experimented with using their Beyond Beef Crumble product as the base for vegan beef dumplings. Both steamed and pan-fried version of this dumpling recipe … Continue reading →

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Mukeunji/Son Ja Jang/Conveyor belt sushi bar, New York, NY

Posted on February 16, 2015 by rundlea

Mukeunji//Son Ja Jang/Conveyor belt sushi bar is a odd New York City multi-restaurant venue. In addition to being a traditional Korean restaurant, Mukeunji also houses Son Ja Jang, a Chinese hand-pulled noodle restaurant, and in the back, houses a conveyor belt sushi … Continue reading →

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456 Shanghai Cuisine, New York, NY

Posted on February 9, 2015 by rundlea

456 Shanghai Cuisine is run by the grandson of the owner of the well regarded original 456 that was located in China Town’s Chatham Square in the 1970s. Forty years later the reborn 456 is an unassuming, plate glass fronted … Continue reading →

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February is Dumpling Month

Posted on February 6, 2015 by rundlea

The media world seems to be dubbing February “Dumpling Month”.  The NY Times posted a really tasty sounding dumpling recipe for Lunar New Year and Lucky Peach is posting a series of dumpling articles.  David Cheng’s essay, “The world’s most … Continue reading →

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Miss Korea BBQ, NY, NY

Posted on February 2, 2015 by rundlea

I have probably eaten at two thirds of the restaurants along Manhattan’s 32nd street Korea Town corridor and I have been trying to complete my tour, so for a recent lunch I stopped in at Miss Korea BBQ.  As its … Continue reading →

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Chopsticks, Grace Bay, Turks and Caicos

Posted on January 26, 2015 by rundlea

Chopsticks is one of the few Asian restaurants on Turks and Caicos but is essentially an airport terminal food court “Wok and Roll” level Chinese restaurant. They charge a $10 delivery fee and it still took an hour to get … Continue reading →

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Otafuku x Medetai, New York, NY

Posted on January 19, 2015 by rundlea

Otafuku x Medetai began life as a tiny nook selling Takoyaki through a window to customers standing on the street. You would see little knots of people huddled over paper boats filled with blazing hot balls of crispy fried dough … Continue reading →

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Google is Taking Away The Tools I Use To Blog

Posted on January 14, 2015 by rundlea

Google seems to have been making unwelcome changes to some of the tools I use to run Dumpling Hunter.  It looks like I can no longer embed RSS feeds of custom Google news searchers, so no more Google Dumpling News. … Continue reading →

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Return to Xi’an Famous Foods, New York NY

Posted on January 12, 2015 by rundlea

Xi’an Famous Foods has seven locations in New York City, although the original spot in Flushing Queens and the spot in midtown don’t sell dumplings.  I previously tried the lamb dumplings at Xi’an Famous Foods and to balance out my meat … Continue reading →

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Ful Green Family, Kimchee Flavored Vegetable Frozen Dumplings

Posted on January 5, 2015 by rundlea

Rating:   There is almost nothing written on the web about these dumplings or this company.  A Swedish blog, Gastronomibloggen, has a review of their veggie dumplings and MyFitnessPal and FatSecret have the calorie and nutritional data for several of the … Continue reading →

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