456 Shanghai Cuisine
(nr Canal st)
New York, NY
"Is 456 Shanghai the bomb? Examined defensively, it certainly is not. Taken in stride, it’s good enough to make me play the Chinatown card. After all, I’m not one to turn down an excuse to eat soup dumplings or romanticize Doomsday."
"But pleasures await in the soup dumplings known on the menu as steamed juicy pork buns, and to the mandarins of Chinese food in New York as xiao long bao, or XLB. The xiao long bao at 456 are small and delicate one-bite numbers, with smooth, almost translucent skin below their rippled crowns."
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