"After much anticipation, the Taiwanese soup dumpling empire has taken Manhattan. Its largest worldwide location yet serves up xiao long bao in Midtown West, where you can watch chefs fold wrappers into 18 precise pleats inside a glass-walled kitchen. It’s dumpling dinner theater, and while the pork soup dumplings don't blow all of our top picks out of the water, they're solid and consistent. It’s ultimately worth snagging a Din Tai Fung reservation just to check out the beautiful and enormous subterranean dining room—and to get yourself at least one steamer basket of the shockingly delicious Chocolate & Mochi Xiao Long Bao." - molly fitzpatrick, bryan kim, neha talreja, willa moore, will hartman
Molly Fitzpatrick