AWESOME! here's the skinny...as soon as you get there, a dude brings a little plate with soy sauce and vinegar in it for the dumplings. He then asks what kind of dumplings you want. Not what you want to drink, not how are you, but what dumplings do you want! hilarious. It’s a given in the restaurant that everyone comes to eat the crab meat and pork dumplings. And they are well worth the long lines that form there. The dumplings have a light broth inside that only one chef, presumably 'Joe', knows how to make. This secret is so well guarded that articles in China and Japan have been written about it. The best part is figuring how to eat them without burning you lips or squirting the sauce all over yourself. Price for eight dumplings...$6.50. Go hungry and enjoy!
by Painter Phil on August 21, 2004
Joe's Shanghai
9 Pell Street New York, New York 10013
(212) 233-8888