Photo by Jeanne Krier
Signage for Dumpling Xi is now on the SE corner of Fourth Avenue at 10th Street.
The China-based company has 800 outposts. As far as we know, this is the first one here. There is one in Flushing as well, per a reader email.
Plenty of dumplings and dim sum around here, like at Bites of Xi'an a few storefronts away on 10th Street and Tim Ho Wan right across the street.
Several restaurants have come and gone in the retail space of the new-ish 10-story cantilevering condoplex. Most recently, Hou Hot Pot closed on Jan. 1.
3 comments:
Comparing this new dumpling place to Bites of Xi'an and Tim Ho Wan doesn't make much sense, since they all represent completely different cuisines and geographical regions. I feel that these types of comparisons only happen for so-called ethnic restaurants. Maybe I don't remember, but I haven't seen Western restaurants subject to the same comparisons.
We live in the West in a Western culture, so by definition we Westerners are less fluent in nuances among geographically and socially distant non-Western cultures. Similarly, non-Western-people are less aware of differences among Western cultures. That said, even we Westerners show ignorance about our own Western cultures -- one example is how Americans so often refer to "Spanish" people and "Spanish" food when they mean Mexican or other Latin American -- or when Americans go to Barcelona to learn Spanish, even as the population there speaks Catalan.
Kudos @10:43am. And as an ignorant about dumpling variations Westerner, any suggestions on good yet inexpensive dumplings in the neighborhood? Love the Tibetan momos at Lhasa, 1st and 11th. Consistently the best.
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