In the history of Chinese cuisine in America, there is a contradiction that most people ignore when placing an order…
Browsing: Dim Sum
Watching a server deliver a bamboo steamer filled with dumplings loaded with impossible pork, wrapped in bright green spinach dough,…
Brooklyn underwent a transformation that took time. A child eating a dollar pizza on the curb, a couple arguing between…
Dim sum is experiencing an odd phenomenon. The meal that used to be associated with elderly reading newspapers at sticky…
When you see a ring lamp leaning on a restaurant booth a certain sense of fear descends. A chef’s years…
Observing a dish of food that appears to belong in 1998 is strangely comforting. The familiar scent of butter heavy…
A bamboo steamer basket arriving at the table with a puff of aromatic steam and a lid that rattles slightly…
Steaming food has a strangely calm quality. No theatrical flare no smoke billowing from a pan no crackling of oil.…
Usually it starts in the same manner. Teapots clinking a round table a little sticky from years of usage bamboo…
The consequence of their decisions can be seen everywhere when strolling around Chinatown in New York today, particularly along streets…