One of my favorite places to have dumplings is at a hole in the wall in Chinatown on the teeny tiny Mosco street in Manhattan. There are two ladies in the tiny place rolling out dough, filling, and cooking dumplings. It’s a steal at 5 for $1. You can also buy frozen bags of them so you can cook them at home. They are seasoned really well and although many “foreigners (lao wai)” (aka Caucasian, or White people) frequent the place, many Chinese people eat there as well. It is literally a hole in the wall with a counter on the left side of the place to sit and eat at. I stopped to get dumplings and hot & sour soup for lunch and paid a whopping $2. As I sat and ate I eavesdropped on the ladies’ conversation. They didn’t talk about anything extraordinary at that time but I probably would have caught some juicy tidbits had I stuck around a little longer!
