New York

While walking around the East Village, the weather was pretty fickle.  As the rain would pick up, we would simply duck into the nearest boutique or Joe the Art of Coffee to escape.  One of the places that we found shelter in was Dumpling Man for a quick and inexpensive late afternoon snack.  Dumpling Man serves 11 different kinds of hand-made Chinese dumplings (both savory and sweet) plus a handful of special sauces and other side items like soups and salads.  They also offer their dumplings frozen, providing specific instructions for several ways to prepare them at home.  It is an “order-at-the-register” type of place, with limited seating along the counter where you can witness the “dumpling men and women” behind the glass cranking out uniformed dumplings at a machine-like speed.

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