Category Archives: Soup Dumpling
Pasta B Jinghua, Milan. Italy
Milan’s Pasta B Jinghua is the Italian outlet of Singapore’s well regarded Jing Hua Xiao Chi, which is known for its home-style Chinese cooking. Pasta B Jinghua’s first floor is dominated by an open kitchen that looks out onto the … Continue reading
Northern Cafe, University of Southern California, LA
Northern Cafe is an LA based mini-chain of Chinese restaurants that is expanding through Southern California. Northern Cafes all appear to be counter service restaurants, where you order at a counter and are given a metal stand with a numbered … Continue reading
Tom’s Dim Sum, Philadelphia PA
Tom’s Dim Sum is a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Dim Sum Factory mini-chain of restaurants serving Shanghai & Cantonese style dim sum. In 2015 Tom’s took over the location of the Dim Sum Garden in the 11th street tunnel under … Continue reading
Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao, New York, NY
Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao opened its first location in 2006, in Flushing Queens. Since 2007 it has been awarded “Michelin-recommended” status for nine consecutive years. In July 2022, it opened a location in Manhattan’s Korea Town neighborhood. The entire … Continue reading
Deluxe Green Bo, New York City
Manhattan’s Chinatown is getting busy again, although the restaurants close earlier than they used to, most are shut at 8:30 or 9pm. Not yet knowing this, we hit Chinatown around 9:30 looking for dumplings and found that all of our … Continue reading
Bing Bing Dim Sum, Philadelphia PA
Bing Bing Dim Sum is a hipster Chinese-fusion restaurant in South Philadelphia with a limited small plate menu that does not really rise to the title of Dim Sum. The menu includes a handful of vegan items and they are … Continue reading
Bai Wei, Philadelphia
Bai Wei (previously Sakura Mandarin) has several things going for it during COVID times, it is spacious and airy and the tables are reasonably far apart, but the staff is lackadaisical about checking vaccination status. I have been there twice … Continue reading
More text messages on Trader Joe’s Soup Dumplings
The text message discussion amongst my friends on Trader Joe’s Soup Dumplings has kept coming.
Trader Joe’s Chicken Soup Dumplings
People send me dumpling reviews by many routes, here is one that came in by text message.
T. Roots, Northampton, MA
T. Roots, a restaurant proclaiming to sell Taiwanese street food, recently opened in downtown Northampton, MA. The menu has the expected hits of Taiwanese cuisine – oyster omelet, scallion pancakes wrapped around beef, congee and stewed pork over rice – … Continue reading
The search for the world's best dumplings 