Category Archives: Steamed

Saiguette, New York, NY

Posted on June 15, 2015 by rundlea

Typically Vietnamese restaurants in New York do not serve dumplings, but Saiguette serves eight styles of dumplings.  Saiguette is mainly a large busy kitchen with a small service counter and six stools at a tiny counter along the window.  If you … Continue reading →

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Hangawi, New York, NY

Posted on May 11, 2015 by rundlea

Hangawi is a vegan Korean restaurant in midtown Manhattan.  They serve a lot of creative vegan interpretations of traditional Korean dishes in a classical Korean restaurant setting – shoes are removed at the door and you sit on the floor … Continue reading →

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Return to DumplingGo, NY, NY

Posted on May 4, 2015 by rundlea

I reviewed DumplingGo a couple of months ago but they have been changing up their menu recently so I decided to return and try their new offerings. The Dumplings:  for this outing I tried the Flounder Dumplings and Black Pepper … Continue reading →

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Canteen 82, New York NY

Posted on April 20, 2015 by rundlea

The co-owners of Canteen 82 hail from Malaysia and Hong Kong and the chef is from Shanghai, perhaps explaining the Asian-Fusion menu hidden behind the restaurant’s sub-title “Taste of Shanghai”.  The menu includes lots of American-Chinese dishes, Sushi, cooked Japanese … Continue reading →

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456 Shanghai Cuisine, New York, NY

Posted on February 9, 2015 by rundlea

456 Shanghai Cuisine is run by the grandson of the owner of the well regarded original 456 that was located in China Town’s Chatham Square in the 1970s. Forty years later the reborn 456 is an unassuming, plate glass fronted … Continue reading →

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Noodles, Northampton, MA

Posted on August 25, 2014 by rundlea

Noodles has been serving pan-Asian noodles, curry dishes and dumplings to Smith College students and Northampton locals since 2008. Like restaurants in Korea and Japan, Noodles has plastic replicas of steaming bowls of noodle soup on display in its entrance … Continue reading →

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Windsor Dim Sum Cafe, Boston, MA

Posted on July 7, 2014 by rundlea

The reviews on Yelp indicate that Windsor Dim Sum Cafe is the best Dim Sum house in Boston’s Chinatown, and my informal polling of people on the street in Chinatown seems to back that up.  The Windsor doesn’t provide the … Continue reading →

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Ollie’s, New York NY

Posted on June 30, 2014 by rundlea

Locally known as “Oillie’s”, the Manhattan mini-chain Ollie’s has been serving up Sichuan inspired American-Chinese food to West-siders for 25 years.  I recently noticed that the 116th street Columbia University location had a poster in the window advertising that they … Continue reading →

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Oriental Flavor, Amherst MA: Best Chinese restaurant in the Pioneer Valley

Posted on September 7, 2013 by rundlea

Oriental Flavor is a Dim Sum restaurant that was recently opened by a waiter and a chef from the previously great, but now sadly fading Amherst Chinese.  As a true Dim Sum restaurant, Oriental Flavor opens for breakfast and serves congee. … Continue reading →

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Dumpling Crawl in London’s Chinatown

Posted on September 2, 2013 by rundlea

London’s Chinatown, which is mainly comprised of restaurants, two or three grocery stores and a few bakeries, is located just North of Leicester Square and next to Soho, and covers a 4 or 5 square block area. There are quite … Continue reading →

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