The Must-Have Dishes: Chiu chow dumplings, congee, Hong Kong-style Dungeness crab. Read more.
Cured meat is a staple in western China, and the fry-up of belly bacon with green onions and blistered, brittle-skinned pepper pods is potent stuff, each flavor powerful and distinct. Read more.
A crackling pancake, made with a wheat dough that’s hand rolled behind the counter and wrapped around a pinch of braised pork and soft-cooked leeks, has the airiness of a great pupusa. Read more.
Phalanxes of steam carts roll out from the kitchen hauling potstickers laden with bamboo shoots, wrinkly siu mai chock full of succulent ground pork, and char siu bao. Read more.
...tender, thinly sliced veal tongue redolent of tea and cinnamon stick, as much a spice box as a perfect dish. Read more.
The duck is brought out with its lacquered hide separated from the moist flesh (a bland soup is made with the carcass), which you wrap in a rice-flour pancake... Read more.