Make sure you order the #9 (Pan Fried Pork Dumplings with Leeks & Shrimp), not the #6 (Pork with Leeks & Shrimp—Fried), or you’ll end up with just regular ol’ potstickers. Read more.
Here you'll find hockey puck-sized lamb “pies” known as xian bing. These innocent-seeming specialties of northern China don’t look like they’re hiding scalding-hot lamb broth inside, but they are. Read more.
You're not going to want to miss out on the pan-fried leek, egg, and glass-noodle stuffed dumplings, inexplicably listed as “pancakes.” Read more.
Wang Xing Ji is famous for their steamed dumpling so large you have to drink the soup using a straw, but what you really want are the juicy pork and crab dumplings with the sweet neon yellow broth. Read more.
The waiter will likely try to push you toward their pan-fried dumplings. But don’t be fooled—the steamed dumplings are the real star of this place. Order the chive, pork, egg, & shrimp. Read more.