Category Archives: Wontons
Din Tai Fun, Seattle, WA
The third floor food court of downtown Seattle’s Pacific Place mall hosts an outpost of the Taiwanese soup dumpling chain Din Tai Fun. The entrance to the restaurant features a wall of windows that look in on the dumpling production line. … Continue reading
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China Wok Express, Northampton MA
China Wok Express is a classic American-Chinese take-out joint incongruously housed in a building with a Swiss red roof chalet type thing going on. I was there at lunch time and the place was jammed with people waiting for take-out or … Continue reading
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Han Dynasty, New York NY
Han Dynasty is a mini-chain of Szechuan restaurants based in Philadelphia that has two outposts in Manhattan. The first location opened in the East Village to multiple good reviews, as did the second on the Upper West Side. But after … Continue reading
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Lucky Pickle, New York, NY
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is experiencing a Chinese food renaissance and the dumpling competition has become fierce. Jacob’s Pickle has a great reputation for pickles and built upon that reputation by opening Maison Pickle. With the new Lucky … Continue reading
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Vegan Beef and Leek Dumplings in Lemongrass Consumme
For this dish I used the consumme recipe from Tal Ronnen’s cook book The Conscious Cook and used my recipe for vegan beef and leek dumplings, which uses Gardein beef-less tips. Ronnen is the founder and chef of the high end … Continue reading
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Grain House, New York, NY
Last month the weird and excellent Coffee Break (aka Ten Ming Gong Zhe) closed and was replaced by an outpost of Queens’ Grain House. Coffee Break served some of the best Sheng Jian Bao in the City and also had a spectacular … Continue reading
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Wontons in Red Chili Oil Battle
Suanla Chaoshou, aka Wontons in Red Chili oil or Szechuan (or Sichuan) Wontons, are fast becoming my favorite dumpling preparation. This dish is pork wontons served with a chili oil dressing, as J. Kenji López-Alt on SeriousEats aptly put it, … Continue reading
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One more stop at Great Wall, Florence, MA
Its a busy time at the day job, so this will be a quick post. I have been to Great Wall twice before (here and here), but I was looking at the menu recently and realized there was still one … Continue reading
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Return to Panda Garden, Williamsburg, MA
Good Asian restaurants are in short supply in Western MA, so when the Chinese food cravings hit me on Boxing Day, I headed back out to Panda Garden. I had a couple of really good dishes at my last visit … Continue reading
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Manhattan Valley Dumpling Tour
The Manhattan Valley neighborhood is situated between the Upper West Side and Columbia University’s Morningside Heights neighborhoods. The neighborhood has perennially been on the edge of booming or gentrifying or becoming at hot residential neighborhood, with articles going back to … Continue reading
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