Bing Dumpling News- From 20 dollars in his pocket to a dumpling empire: Din Tai Fung founder dies, age 96 March 26, 2023
- Yang Bing-Yi, patriarch of Taiwan's soup dumpling empire, has died March 29, 2023
- Yang Bing-yi, who built a soup-dumpling empire, dies at 96 March 29, 2023
- ‘Dumpling the Dog’ adopted after being left in trash outside Maricopa County shelter March 2, 2023
- ChiKo in Shirlington to hold week-long dumpling celebration March 9, 2023
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Google is Taking Away The Tools I Use To Blog
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
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
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”
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.
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
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
Banh Mi Strong – Fundraiser
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
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
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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Oldboy (U.S.) Dumpling Eating Promotion
The South Korean film Oldboy is one of my favorite movies and I have some misgivings about the Hollywood remake, you should all see the original. But as dumplings play a key plot point in the film and the PR … Continue reading
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The search for the world's best dumplings 