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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High-end dim sum is what Ed Schoenfeld and Joe Ng do best. The former is the man behind Chinatown Brasserie, Shun Lee, and Shun Lee Palace; the latter, a dim sum chef Schoenfeld met in Sunset Park and brought on board at Chinatown Brasserie. Almost a year ago, the chef-restauteur pair launched the RedFarm stall in the upscale food court
FoodParc, where we loved the dumplings and pastrami egg rolls and quite a bit else. And finally, after a number of delays and what seemed like weeks of preview dinners, they've opened their newest restaurant, also called
RedFarm, in a townhouse in the West Village.
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Our desert island dumpling would be the chewy-crispy, pork-filled, Beijing-style
guo tie. You'll see them on the menu as fried dumplings or potstickers. Last week,
we visited every dumpling shop in Chinatown to see whose were best.
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Though I've always loved New York's Chinatown—the food carts and fish markets, fake purses and dazed tourists, and of course all of the food shops, bakeries, and restaurants—eating in the neighborhood can be enough to make any vegetarian a little wary. Still, choose your destination wisely, and it's definitely possible to have a vegetarian meal in Chinatown fashion.
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The sesame pancakes are light and spongy, with so many sesame seeds they practically form a second crust (this is a good thing).
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[Photo: Robyn Lee] Dumplings have always had a way of getting my hopes up. Chewy and starchy, warm and juicy, a genuinely good dumpling is the ultimate comfort food. Yet the dumpling's potential also makes the bad ones all...
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FoodParc is set to open this Wednesday offering a number of food stands within a single market space in the plaza of the Eventi Hotel. Here's a sneak peek at some of the menu offerings. RedFarm Stand Benton's Smoked Bacon...
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[Photo credits: Lingbo Li] While they have a reasonably well-developed menu at Jack Yan's (also known as Shandong Dumpling) in the Golden Shopping Mall, all the star power comes from their boiled to order Shandong-style dumplings. They're small and...
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In the latest episode of Working Class Foodies, host Rebecca Lando goes on a food tour of Flushing with Adam Roberts of The Amateur Gourmet and Dan Delaney of VendrTV. After eating the pork and leek dumplings from White...
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"The name translates to 'Delicious Beautiful,' or, more literally, 'Saliva Beautiful.'" The first time I heard of Chinese Food was on the subway. I was talking about food (as I am wont to do) with a friend while riding the...
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