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Neptune Polish Restaurant, New York, NY

Neptune is a small Polish dinner in New York City’s East Village neighborhood and is contributing writer, El Diablo’s, go-to spot for pierogies. I can understand his devotion to Neptune, the restaurant won best potato pierogi in the recent 2013 … Continue reading

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Ginger Garden, Amherst, MA

Since the decline of Amherst Chinese I have been looking for a new Chinese restaurant in Western MA, and Ginger Garden may become my new go-to spot. Its main menu is a pan-Asian mix of Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese … Continue reading

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Vegan Pho Soup Dumpling Recipe

These dumplings are a vegetable soup dumpling designed to mimic the flavors of Vietnamese Pho.  The filling could be made of any of the ingredients you often find in Pho, but I used spinach, tofu, carrots and scallions.  Bean sprouts … Continue reading

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“Dumpling” Houses in New York City

My friend Dan has been analyzing the New York City Restaurant Inspection Data and did a search to find every restaurant in NYC with the word “Dumpling” in the name of the restaurant.  Below is a map of these restaurants, … Continue reading

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Piroshky Piroshky, Seattle, WA

My wife has been telling me that products like Piroshkies, Empanadas, Pasties and Samosas do not count as dumplings, but are in fact, hand held pies.  For me a dumpling is a dough pocket that fully encloses a filling and … Continue reading

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Pu Pu Hot Pot replaced by The Dumpling Room, Cambridge, MA

I periodically visit Cambridge, MA and stay at a hotel across the street from the restaurant Pu Pu Hot Pot, seeing the sign always causes me to flash back to Beavis and Butthead. On my most recent trip Pu Pu … Continue reading

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Pierogi Fest, Whiting Ind.

Last weekend Whiting Indiana held its 19th annual Pieorgi Fest, its population of 5,000 planned for crowd of 250,000 people for the event.  The event includes pieorgi tastings  (19 pierogi vendors were represented), pierogi eating contests, a pierogi toss, a … Continue reading

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Dumpling Poisoning in China

Lu Yueting pleaded guilty on Tuesday to, in 2008, spiking frozen dumpling made by Tianyang Food in China with the pesticide methamidophos. It was reported at the time that 80 people fell ill from the dumplings, but reports of the … Continue reading

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Lobster and Butter Soup Dumpling

These dumpling attempt to mimic eating a steamed lobster tail dipped in butter as a soup dumpling.  The lobster and melted butter are contained within the dumpling wrapper like a soup dumpling.  I made these once and they came out … Continue reading

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Ping’s Dumpling House and Market

On past trips to Seattle I had read several good reviews of Ping’s on Yelp and in the Seattle Times and decided to try the spot on my next trip.  Ping’s started out as a market with a small dumpling … Continue reading

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