Dumpling Cafe Restaurant

A reader of mine alerted me to the opening of Dumpling Cafe in Forest Hills about a year ago, and I’ve been meaning to go check it out for a while.  I was a lil disappointed when I finally got over there and discovered it appeared to be little more than a take out Chinese place… with a few items of interest on the menu.  Unfortunately, being the silly girl I am, I didn’t manage to try those this first time.  Being called the Dumpling Cafe, I of course ordered pork dumplings (fried).  This order of 8 was $4.95.  They [...]

Lan Zhou on Division

One last stop in the hand pulled noodle journey!  The very first place I started was Lan Zhou (which is the region from which hand pulled noodles come, actually).  Since then, another place has opened with a similar name, so I made my way over to this ultra clean restaurant, which was pretty empty on a Wednesday evening.  Spicy Ninja ordered some spicy soup.  He liked it a lot, if I recall correctly.  He said it was a good spicy level, not crazy but not too mild either (one of his pet peeves).  I ordered the ‘beef stew hand pulled [...]

High Pearl

For my brother’s recent birthday, we went to High Pearl.  High Pearl, which I may or may not have mentioned before, is the place my family goes to consistently.  I mean, since the time I was 10 or younger.  I’ve eaten here so many times over the years, but I can honestly say I haven’t eaten the entire menu because we usually don’t switch up our order too much.  (I did, however, come here with friends a few times, and my friends order such totally, completely different dishes, it was really amazing.)  Shark’s Fin soup.  Please don’t tell me about [...]

Super Taste

Another stop on the hand pulled noodles journey - Super Taste, directly across the street from Sheng Wang, is impossible to get to quickly from the part of the Financial District where I work(ed).  Oh well.  I stopped by Doughnut Plant on my way back anyway.  Hehe.  The menu was pretty simple and straight forward.  I’d read a couple of other blogs and decided what I wanted quickly.  Fat, thick slices of eel over handpulled noodles.  Mmm, doesn’t that look awesome?Thick, chewy handpulled noodles; I really enjoyed my bowl of piping hot noodles.  What I didn’t enjoy was sitting in the [...]

Sheng Wang

Sheng Wang is the first handpulled noodle place that ever crossed my radar.   Somehow, though, it’s taken me this long to finally get there… I headed over with Gmak after work on a cold, blustery day.  Perfect for noodles in soup!Gmak ordered the knife-cut noodles with beef.I didn’t try any, but I know he was extremely happy with his dish, especially the beef, being of the aromatic kind.  Win!  I decided to be adventurous, so to speak, and order the duck noodles.  They were $5.50 and I figured big, meaty, fat slices of duck (like from the many Chinese butchery windows [...]

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