[This entry originally took place on November 3rd. A month ago, practically. Dammit.] "Number 72? Number 72?!" The young hostess at Joe's Shanghai given the task of rounding up the potential customers who were waiting outside the overcrowded restaurant had...
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Joe’s Shanghai Midtown NY - Soup Dumplings / Xiao Long Bao - No Cardboard Stuffed Dumplings here!
So did you hear about the street vendor in Beijing that was caught stuffing baozi with cardboard ? Here’s a link to the Cardboard Stuffed Dumplings on CNN. Apparently the man took cardboard, used a [...]
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I have been trying not to become a restaurant review blog--since my Dad owns a restaurant, and my undivided loyalty belongs to him--but I love talking about food, and I love sharing my experiences. Thus, to be fair, each time I blog about a restaurant, I try to discuss the good and the bad.
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If you're ever in New York and you get a hankering for dumplings, go down to Chinatown and check out Joe's Shanghai. It's on a teeny tiny street a block or two south of Canal. It's not a huge place, but not tiny, either. The weekday lunch crowd was fairly
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In a tiny little alley between Mott and Bowery street is Joe’s Shanghai. You can tell you’re rapidly approaching this famous Shanghainese restaurant by the large crowds gathered outside the door. Once you’re inside you see quite an eclectic crowd. Joe’s Shanghai is a local favorite but by the large number of dining tourists, it’s evident that Joe’s Shanghai has some definite exposure on some major Japanese and European travel guides. Tourists aside, the food here is the real deal. Their most famous dish Xiao Long Bao is the best I’ve had in New York and not unlike the ones I’ve tried in Shanghai. Xiao Long Bao are dumplings stuffed with a juicy steamed pork meatball.
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I started my day with the same food I ate yesterday: veggies and eggs. YUM. It is pretty good, but I was still hungry. Since I suck, I went to Jubilee (the closest supermarket, although rather expensive) and got a 5 oz bag of olive oil potato chips and a pound of organic unsalted butter. It costed nearly $8, which seems like a lot for a pound of butter. WHY DID I BUY IT?! Oh well, it will last me a looong time, figuring I'm just using it for cooking and not to make pastries.
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Soup dumplings, those tender pouches of ground pork and broth from Shanghai, seemed to explode across New York City in the mid- to late 1990s, perhaps reaching a peak circa 1998, when Joe's Shanghai, one of the original dumpling purveyors, opened an upscale branch in the heart of midtown Manhattan.
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