Category Archives: Chinese
Furama, Philadelphia, PA
Furama is a new Dim Sum palace style restaurant in South Philadelphia where dim sum is served from carts that roam the dining room. I am conflicted about dim sum served from carts. I enjoy the tension/surprise of spotting a … Continue reading
Ray’s Café and Tea House, Philadelphia, PA
Ray’s Café and Tea House is a family run Taiwanese café that introduced siphon coffee brewing to Philadelphia and serves some great house made dumplings. Ray’s is a small place that sells drinks and food and ground coffee and packages … Continue reading
Dim Sum Bloom, (ne Shun Lee Cafe, and Shun Lee 98th), New York, NY
The food at Upper West Side’s Dim Sum Bloom was meh when I ate there, but the back story of the restaurant is interesting. It originally opened, to great anticipation, as “Shun Lee Cafe” and then later changed its name … Continue reading
Moon Kee, New York, NY
Moon Kee opened back in October of 2023 selling Cantonese style food and dim sum. The restaurant traces its origins to the owner’s father, who learned to cook in China in the 1950s and after moving to Hong Kong in … Continue reading
3 Times, New York, NY
The origin story of 3 Times, a local NYC mini-chain of dumpling joints, is that an expat from Nanjing who was working as a tour guide in New York wanted a good Chinese restaurant to take his groups to. He … Continue reading
Stick to My Pot Potstickers
Stick to My Pot, Potstickers is a small dumpling restaurant on West 35th street near Penn Station. The restaurant has a long wooden counter, with metal stools, along one side of the space, and counter service at the back, where … Continue reading
Shanghai Time, Manhattan, New York
Shanghai Time had me at “it our mission to introduce the traditional Shanghainese Shengjianbao to the New York City culinary community”, I love Sheng Jian Bao and great ones are hard to find in the U.S. I first tried this … Continue reading
Lisa’s Dumplings, New York, NY
Lisa’s Dumplings is in the Turnstyle Underground Market, one of the NYC MTA’s attempts at an Asian style underground shopping arcade. Lisa’s has an open kitchen concept where the dumpling wrappers are rolled out on a counter in front of … Continue reading
Dim Sum Garden, Philadelphia
The owner of Dim Sum Garden claims to be the 5th generation descendent of the Chef who invented Xiao Long Bao (soup dumplings). This is obviously hard to verify, but online reviews are consistent in praising the soup dumplings. When … Continue reading
Dan Dan, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia area mini-chain, Dan Dan, serves up Sichuan and Taiwanese dishes. Dan Dan spun off from Han Dynasty’s University City location in 2015, with a first location in Rittenhouse Square and then locations in Ardmore and Wayne. Dan Dan … Continue reading
The search for the world's best dumplings 