Category Archives: News

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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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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In the News

Posted on October 20, 2014 by rundlea

I’ve had a busy couple of weeks at work and a couple of work dinners, so I haven’t had a chance to get out and try new dumpling spots to review.  On the plus side I did get to eat … Continue reading →

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Dumpling Wars 2: The Hungry Games, San Francisco, CA

Posted on April 4, 2014 by rundlea

The Kearny Street Workshop is hosting its second Dumpling Wars fund raiser on April 12th at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.  Teams of amateur chefs will battle to serve up the best dumplings with a panel of San Francisco foodies … Continue reading →

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Review of “Chinese Special Dumpling Flour”

Posted on February 27, 2014 by rundlea

I am busy writing up some posts from my trip to San Francisco but in the mean time check out Andrea Nguyen’s recent post over at Viet Word Kitchen. She compares Shenzhen Southseas Grains Industries “Special Dumpling Flour” to unbleached Gold … Continue reading →

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Where and When to Eat Xiao Long Bao in L.A.

Posted on December 10, 2013 by rundlea

The L.A. Weekly blog just published an awesome flow chart on where and when to eat Xiao Long Bao (soup dumplings) in L.A.  The flow chart includes decision points for wrapper thickness, dinner vs lunch, whether you what dumplings with … Continue reading →

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Pierogi Love at Sky Mall

Posted on December 3, 2013 by rundlea

While crammed into a US Airways flight waiting for the plane to reach cruising altitude and the “OK” to use my laptop, I spotted pierogi based Christmas decorations amongst the weird and random offerings in the Sky Mall catalog.  Sky … Continue reading →

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Banh Mi Strong – Fundraiser

Posted on November 1, 2013 by rundlea

The guys at Banh Mi Saigon have launched a GoFundMe.com crowd sourced fundraiser to help rebuild their business after it was destroyed in a huge fire that wiped out the entire strip mall they were in.  As first time business … Continue reading →

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Very sad news, Banh Mi Saigon destroyed in a fire

Posted on October 29, 2013 by rundlea

In very sad news, Banh Mi Saigon in Hadley MA and the rest of the strip mall it is part of, were destroyed last night in a huge fire.  Banh Mi Saigon doesn’t sell dumplings but it is the best … Continue reading →

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Village Voice, Best of NYC 2013

Posted on October 19, 2013 by rundlea

The Village Voice just published its Best of NYC issue and included two categories relevant to this blog; Best Soup Dumpling and Best Dumpling. For the Best Soup Dumpling category the award went to  Shanghai Cafe on Mott Street in … Continue reading →

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