The Best Soup Dumplings In Chinatown, Manhattan

Finding the best Xiao Long Bao—the famed soup-filled dumplings from Shanghai—in New York has always been a pet project of mine, but it's not an easy goal to accomplish. Given the magnitude of the task, I decided to break it down into more manageable, walkable segments. For our first installment, I limited my search area to Manhattan's Chinatown.

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37 Comments | Posted by J. Kenji López-Alt, December 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM
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Soup Dumplings and More at Shanghai Asian Cuisine

I went to Shanghai Asian Cuisine with a large group in search of xiao long bao (soup dumplings), but ended up finding two completely different dishes that I liked as much. Not to say that I don't like xiao...

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3 Comments | Posted by Robyn Lee, September 3, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Tagged: Chinatown, Chinese, Manhattan, Shanghai Asian Cuisine