East Wind Snack Shop — Restaurant in New York

Best har gow (shrimp dumplings) I've ever had! They're huge, made with fresh, clean, and quality ingredients, and come in a dumpling skirt! Really something else. I'd come here just for that. My husband loves their dry aged beef dumplings. Pretty unique. Even though they're small, they are dense and packed! They're surprisingly quite heavy to pick up with your chopsticks. The Sichuan cucumber salad was packed with flavor! I don't like bean sprouts but they changed my mind! Tried their juicy pork dumplings and they were not kidding. One bite and juice was getting everywhere, and I'm not a messy eater. Also got their strawberry bubble tea...yummm. Everything is so delicious, made fresh to order, and served piping hot!! Love that they play 90s Hong Kong music too and serve their dimsum in 90s dimsum paper plates. Super nostalgic for me. They also play videos on random traditional Chinese cuisine, which is...

This one is really odd: I LOVED the food (technique, quality, "thickness of dough", all spot-on). The potstickers are AMAZING, and Pork dumplings without a doubt the best example of the genre I've ever had. The Bao, as well, wonderfully executed (and almost no-one's is !).

But I don't think I'll be returning. If it was just me, and I wanted just the dumplings I mentioned above, maybe. But my female happens to be a vege-and-seafood person, and aside from the limited menu, "different" isn't alsways "good". So, for example, the Tuesday soup dumplings (butternut squash), were surprising, and ... yummy, but ... she doesn't want them again. And the Happy Buddha Vegetables are in a fermented sauce that's really kind of unpleasant.

So in short, GREAT place when it's great. But some more ... something ... needs to...

I'd call this place good not great. Have been wanting to go here for years, but somehow never got around to it until today. Maybe it used to be better? We love dumplings and there's been so much hype about theirs but we were kind of disappointed. We had the fried pork ones. Really just a notch better than standard Chinese take out ones imo - and a whole lot smaller. Dough was kind of tough. We expected a really flavorful filling, with nice chunks of chives and a good sear on the outside but these weren't like that at all: just kind of bland and pale with no special flavors. The Deluxe Wonton Soup was tasty but not all that special either. The slab of pork belly in it was quite yummy, though. The sticky ribs are nice and so are the people working in the Park Slope location. Wish I felt more...