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Egg tarts, chocolate dumplings, and more…

By The Wandering Eater   Nov 16, 2006

Rickshaw Dumpling Bar in Chelsea, is somewhat known for their chocolate dumplings, since I remembered reading about them last winter in a NY Magazine article. I walked over to that dumpling bar, as they called themselves, and waited on line for a few minutes. It's lunch hour and the local business crowd are going for their dumplings (the savory ones) for lunch. As I looked around, it basically a clean, well lit place that is slightly Industrial/modern decor - it's very streamlined and somewhat minimalist with lots of seating. They had a bunch of different options of dumplings from the traditional pork to the low carb and if you want it in soup or fried and then the one that I'm looking for: the chocolate dumplings ($3). the chocolate dumplings are basically deep fried mochi balls filled with melted chocolate with Plugra butter. I took a bite from one of these dumplings and it oozed chocolate with the synchronization of the slightly crisp exterior. It tasted nutty from the black sesame seeds, dark chocolate was good (about 60% cocoa) and it wasn't very sweet. I like this chocolate dumpling. I would return here for their savory dumplings in the future. FULL REVIEW

Good Dumplings

By Walker New York Eats   Sep 12, 2006

My baby boy almost made it through the first two years of his life without having a good dumpling. And he LOVES dumplings, so that is a very sad statement. I decided almost as soon as I moved to New York that the best judge of a Chinese restaurant is its dumplings. And most of them are just awful, too thick, doughy and sticky or soggy or cheater dumplings, made with those transparent papers (is it rice papers or some kind of wonton wrapper?). FULL REVIEW

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Playing Catch-Up

By The Impetuous Epicure   Jan 25, 2006

Rickshaw Dumpling Bar is a cavernous cave entrance in the wall on W23rd just off Broadway. I’m not kidding, either. Walk through the door, and you’re presented with a narrow but long passageway. The ceiling is high enough to amply work in a second floor. Okay, maybe I’m just short. FULL REVIEW

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The parfait of ghastly horrors

By The Girl Who Ate Everything   Dec 02, 2005

There descriptions and more are what I wanted to scrawl onto the Whole Foods Turtle Parfait cup in permanent black marker, after which I would stab the cup in rage--with the copious number of free Whole Foods plastic cutlery--brought upon by the ingestion of pointless calories and continue putting the brutalized cup in its rightful place by stomping on it. A few times. With cleats. FULL REVIEW

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Rickshaw Dumpling Bar

By Big Apple Dining Guide   Jul 07, 2005

For a late lunch/early dinner before class across the street (Institute of Culinary Education), I stopped off to try this hotly contested (at least on Chowhound.com) dumpling outpost to make my own opinion. FULL REVIEW

Rickshaw Dumpling Bar

By Eat Drink One Woman   Mar 28, 2005

I'm working down the street from the Rickshaw Dumpling Bar and decided to pop in for a light solo dinner a couple of weeks ago.  I ordered six fried Peking duck dumplings with Shanghai noodles in shiitake soup.  The thick dough finally gave way to mushy, soggy cabbage filling with a meager allowance of sad, stringy duck.  Any spices purportedly swimming around got lost in the opaque brown shiitake soup, which tasted like those packaged Chinese brown mushrooms -- all musty, salty, and single-note.  The overcooked noodles were pointless.  I give better marks to the well-dressed $3 Asian greens salad addition, though the salad is not reason enough to waste a meal at this overhyped, overpriced joint.  I feel the same way about that press junkie the Dumpling Man.  You're better off with the five for a dollar fried half moons on East Broadway, or the lovingly rendered mini-mandoos at 32nd St.'s Mandoo Bar. FULL REVIEW

Chowing in Chelsea: Lunch at Rickshaw, Dinner at elmo

By The Amateur Gourmet   Feb 28, 2005

For those not from New York, Chelsea is the belly button of Manhattan. Ok, that's not true. It's a little lower---just so much lower, in fact, that to tell you where it is in an anatomical sense would be crass. Let's just say that Chelsea is in the lower region of the city. FULL REVIEW

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