9 Pell Street
New York, New York 10013
Every single one of my Asian friends who go to NYC always makes it a point to stop for some of those infamous soup dumplings at Joe's Shanghai. Sometimes even TWICE in one trip. We actually went twice. The soup dumplings at Joe's have either a pork or crab meat filling. The wrapping is incredibly thin and delicate and holds the meat filling as well as a generous amount of broth inside. The soup dumplings come out in bamboo holders and each dumpling is spaced adequately so that they don't touch each other. Otherwise, they end up sticking to each other and the skin will rip when trying to remove it. Premature broth spillage is a soup dumpling disaster! Cos then you end up with a regular ole dumpling without the delicious soup. I thought the soup dumplings were good, but I think my favorite was the green onion pancake. Dood. I LOVE green onion pancake. If I go to a restaurant in Houston that offers green onion pancake, you can bet your arteries that I'm getting me some green onion pancake. The other dish that we ordered were these rice cakes and pork in brown sauce. It was pretty good but unfortunately, it was over-shadowed by the pancakes and dumplings. The restaurant is mos def not big enough for the demand. Expect to always have some sort of a wait. That's pretty much the usual suspect for most NYC restaurants anyhow.
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