It’s Raining Soup Dumplings in Manhattan
TikTok and Instagram have turned up the heat on the New York City dim sum favorite.
When Din Tai Fung opens its doors this spring, it will exponentially increase the number of soup dumplings in Manhattan.
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Across Manhattan, diners are picking up their soup spoons and chopsticks and biting (ever so carefully) into the city’s hottest order.
Xiao long bao, aka the soup dumpling, is a dim sum classic, traditionally with ground pork and/or crab or, increasingly, unconventionally with options such as matzo balls, in a little pool of molten broth within a pleated dumpling wrapper. An enduring staple of food halls in Queens and storefronts in Brooklyn, they’re also nothing new to Manhattanites. Joe’s Shanghai has been steaming them in Chinatown since 1995; more recently, places including Pinch Chinese in SoHo have presented exemplary versions.