Kung Fu Little Steamed Buns Ramen
“VERY good xiao long bao on par with Joe's Shanghai and only just below Ding Tai Fung.”
“I love bok choy and it's nice to FINALLY get some in ramen (I'm looking at you, totto ramen).”
“Note that they do include a "Service charge" on your bill so please check before double tipipng them..so tricky.”
Kung Fu Little Steamed Buns Ramen
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
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Great midtown spot for lunch or a casual meal! My friend and I split Peking duck buns which were real good although a bit greasy! We also split the shrimp ramen soup and duck ramen soup! I preferred the shrimp as the duck was a bit too fatty and bony but still flavorful!
Highlight of the meal was the veggie dumplings which were amazing. My friend got the pork dumplings which she enjoyed very much!
To put this review into perspective, I ordered take-out on a Saturday afternoon. Obviously take-out is never as good as the in-restaurant experience, but I expected better.
$8.95 for 6 Steamed Pork Soup Dumplings – It doesn't taste homemade to me (maybe they made a batch and froze it overnight). The skin was too thick and the pork wasn't packed properly. I expect a clear broth from my soup dumpling, but the broth was chunky.
Sweetened Hot Soy Milk – I love to dip my fried dough in this stuff, and it tasted pretty good. However, my stomach felt a little upset after drinking it.
Great menu, poor execution.
I don't really remember everything I order but I think I got the steamed buns and the sticky rice shao mai, which were my favorite.
Hell's Kitchen area can always surprise me with its great amount of nice little restaurants or food stalls. Even though many people come here to eat, the line at each restaurant is not long at all. So highly recommend you try around this area for different food options.
Back to this place – recommended by a friend. Came here on a weekday night for dinner. Got seated after a short wait, like 10 mins. The menu option was very limited – like less than 10 kinds of appetizers and all the food options on two sides of a page. We ordered little steamed buns of course. Literally, I can merely taste the difference between little steamed buns sold by different Chinese restaurants in the city. So the buns here taste good to me as well.
The ambience could be improved. The seat was limited to a very small space, which made me sit very uncomfortable. And all tables were side by side, which means almost no privacy between your table and others. This is a thing you need to take into consideration if you want to choose a place not only offers authentic Chinese street food, but also provides a good ambience for talking.
A pleasant surprise!! Was going out to a neighborhood ramen spot but it happened to be closed that Sunday- ended up walking to this place and stopping in for some soup dumplings. Had very low expectations due to the mixed Yelp reviews but was in an adventurous mood. The minute we sat down we were served free tea- that's worth half a star right there. Ordered the spicy beef soup ramen, an order of xialongbao, and bok choy. The food came out quickly – a little too quickly. The soup was very spicy with a great chili paste adding a ton of flavor. Not for the faint of heart. The noodles were more like thick spaghetti and the beef was overlooked. Overall a 3 star dish. The bok choy was great, classic dish, hard to mess up. And on to the soup dumplings- totally exceeded expectations. Definitely better than joes Shanghai (which I find to be way too thick). They were hot, thin, and juicy. Tasty soup inside- didn't even add the vinegar. And the best part is that we only had 1 dumpling fall victim to the break prior to ingestion.
Solid four stars.
just note that this isn't actual ramen. it's lai mien for $10+ per bowl. it hits the spot. but it ain't ramen 🙂
My coworkers and I were craving ramen so badly but we couldn't figure out any place near enough that we could go that would be able to seat us and serve us within the 1 hr time limit we had. We thought and thought and finally remembered that we saw this dumpling house by Omar's. So we journeyed over there (took about 10 mins) and got there at 12:10pm. We were worried we wouldn't get a table but thankfully we did. We took 5 mins to figure out what to order. I got the House Special for $11.50 which came with noodles, a boiled egg, shrimp and veggies. We also ordered the beef scallion pancake and xiao long baos as appetizers.
Within 10 minutes, all of our orders arrived at our table!! (There were 3 of us). We were all so impressed by how fast the service was! It was pretty impressive how efficient they are, given that the entire restaurant was packed.
The house special noodle portion size was huge. It came with several strips of beef, maybe 4 or 5 shrimp, lots of bok choi and an egg. The noodles were delicious. I wouldn't consider them ramen though because to me, ramen is more wavy. The bok choi tasted a little undercooked though. I would have liked cooked softer, so that it's easier to chew. Everything was very tasty.
I loved the scallion pancakes! You can't really go wrong with ordering those. They cut it into 4 slices and thankfully my coworkers only wanted once slice so I got two all to myself!! As for the xiao long baos, they were very good as well. But by the time we had finished our noodle soup and the scallion pancakes, we could barely stomach the xiao long baos. There was so much food but I'm not complaining (: We loved it. Great service, good food! We will be returning there whenever we're craving noodles!
came here with my shanghainese friend who said that this is the best spot in manhattan currently for soup dumplings. i trust her! we had lunch on a recent sunday and i thought the soup dumplings (both pork and pork with crab roe) here were really good – perfectly thing skin and the exploding soup had good flavor – not bland like all of the xlb's in san francisco (BOO!!)
we also ordered – leek pancakes with egg (like empanadas), wonton soup, scallion pancakes with beef – everything was yummy but the leek empanadas were a bit too oily for me. complimentary tea was delicious. service was friendly, but not fast – it was a lazy sunday for them maybe. they do not take amex either. BUT i would come back just to eat ALL of the XLBs!