When the Mets lose, the Houston Cougars lose, the Jets lose, and you get runover by a car on your bike, there's only one thing that could turn the week around...yep, dumplings. For this review I called up my friend Tony, born and raised in China, now living in Chinatown. I asked him where we should get dumplings, since I finally had someone that could read all the signs.
We ended up in Tasty Dumpling. A tiny little spot next to my favorite park, where everyone is playing Chinese chess, and there is definitely gambling being placed on the matches. So we went in and Tony did his thing speaking Chinese to the woman in the back. As he did that I looked around and noticed, this place was packed all of them tourists too. I don't know who the PR manager is, but they deserve all of the money. I don't know what backroom deal went on to put them on a must eat list for all of these tourists, but good on them.
We ended up getting some chive and pork, and cabbage and pork. They were alright, definitely not living up to the hype of all these tourists. The chive and pork were better, than the cabbage and pork. The chive had some layers of flavor, the cabbage though nothing special. They were a tad bit greasy too, and not as crispy as they could have been. Soy sauce as a dumpling sauce too should tell you everything you need to know. Lackluster and I can give you 5 better dumpling spots within a 10 block radius.
Chive and pork 3 out of 5
Cabbage and pork 2.8 out of 5
Eric
PS. again props to the marketing person here, because they are definitely not spending the money on interior, and how else do they get all these tourists jammed in there. There's a list of top dumplings out there and the only logically explanation for why Tasty Dumpling is on it, is the writer is receiving a lifetime supply of dumplings, and if that is the case I don't blame him/or her one bit.
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