Real Kung Fu Little Steamed Buns Ramen — Restaurant in New York

You know the food is good when you are still thinking about it days later! We went specifically to try the soup dumplings but everything was DELICIOUS. We tried 4 kinds of dumplings and 3 different entrees.

Dumplings we tried were the Pork Soup Dumplings, Crab soup dumplings, and then one set of fried pork dumplings and one set of steamed pork dumplings. The Pork soup dumplings were hands down my favorite but the Crab Soup dumplings were a strong second. The standard pork dumplings both steamed and fried were good but I wasn't a fan of dumpling dip sauce which is normally a favorite for me.

My boyfriend got the Shrimp Ramen with the broth and it was delicious I wish I lived closer because it would be a perfect meal to have on a sick day! He added a little too much Chili oil himself but that was his own hubris. I got the pork stir fry ramen and it was also amazing, I’m not usually big on all the veggies in my stir fry but it was too good not to eat them. I was so full I even took the remaining food home and had it as leftovers and it was the best next day leftovers I have ever had. My boyfriends sister got the stir fry hand cut noodles with chicken. I personally preferred the pork over the Shrimp and Chicken but all of them were super fresh and delicious. You could definitely tell and taste that all of the ingredients were fresh and the noodles handmade in house.

I personally loved that they brought every individual item out as soon as it was ready instead of holding items until everyones was ready. Definitely coming here again!

You know the food was good when we could help but getting bites before we...

My friend and I walked into this place on a random afternoon when everywhere else around the area was quite busy and we enjoyed the food we had here, especially because some of the dishes they served were catered towards people from my region in China. Since my friend and I were from the same city originally, we both had a pretty good experience.

The fact that they had marinated slice beef, tea eggs, and crispy fried dough, some of the items that I regularly had for breakfast when I was young in China, brought back a lot of nostalgia. The tea egg tasted pretty good and was infused with sufficient tea flavor. The crispy fried dough, or you tiao, as we call it in China, was a bit dry and hard. The marinated slice beef had good flavor and had an abundant amount. The egg & chive boxes didn't have enough chives or eggs in there, but had good flavor overall. Both the ramen and the stir-fried ramen were tasty and I don't know how else to describe them other than that they tasted good. Anyway, the highlight for me was that some of the dishes I used to have at home existed here. Their flavors weren't the best but were still good!

I also think that the decor inside the restaurant is pretty cool, with a big piece of artwork by Pengpeng Du displayed on the wall. With so many good restaurants in the area, I am not sure about the likelihood of one coming across this one, but I do recommend it to those that want to...

What a tiny-but-mighty hole-in-the-wall gem in NYC. I had la-mien house special, which had thin slices of beef and a few shrimps with the hand pulled noodles. The noodles were chewy and fun to eat. Yummy. I heard an adult replying to a child saying that ramen was Japanese food. Well, surprise! The history clearly is written that ramen was indeed originally made in China. During an ancient battlefield, hungry Japanese soldiers were surprised to find well fed Chinese soldiers with "dried/fried noodles" in their supply bags. After an interrogation, the Japanese learned to make la-mien noodles, which in Japanese pronounced as Ra-men or ramen as known today. But, the fact is that ramen originated from China. Of course, Japanese adapted ramen to their taste and added their "touch" to it. It is no different from spaghetti, which was inspired by jajang mien that Marco Polo had at Kublai Khan's court. It's all good! The juicy soup dumplings were good, but not as good as Din Tai Fung. Still, they were delicious. I actually enjoyed the dessert called rice balls in rice soup. The rice balls about the size of nickels in diameter were filled with sweet sesame. It was quite yummy. The prices were not too bad. The bill included 15% gratuities for easy calculation. Sharing tables with strangers... Why not? This is New York at best! Expect waiting, but good things...