BakerMuse Live from New York City: Viva la Revolution!

Live from New York City. There is a war in New York City and only your intrepid BakerMuse reporter is willing to bring you the news. THE DUMPLING WARS! 

Well, I'm sitting in the Rickshaw Dumpling Bar decided whether to go "steamed" or "fried."  But the truth is I am scoping out the competition.  The Dumpling Man located in St. Mark's Place is the PR favorite -- led by the recommendation of the kindly Al Roker.  Now you have the culinary axis of cholesterol in Manhattan -- the Rickshaw Dumpling Bar , Dumpling Man and the steaming king of dumplings-- China Town.

Basically a dumpling is a clever way to hide mediocre pork, shrimp, chicken and tofu.  The variety of sauces are a clever way to disguise the dumpling, So,  basically it's a labyrinth food -- are  you into dumplings for the meat?  Is the the lure of the doughy dumpling itself?  Or are they just an Asian version of Hot Pockets? 

After after I wolfed down a few donut-chicken-chili-sauce confections and drank some watermelon juice -- I immediately marched my way over to Revolution Bookstore to soak up the new Marxism.  Apparently, the newly branded  world order starts at 146 W. 26th Street, between 6th & 7th Ave. 

I quote from the store itself:

 "Revolution Books is a crucible in which the most liberating science, revolutionary communism, interacts and mixes it up with all the streams of progressive, radical and revolutionary intellectual life.  At the heart of the store is Bob Avakian's radical re-envisioning of revolution and communism."

This tiny crucible was filled with what can be deftly described as people that looked like they belonged in a post-modern communist bookstore.  it was a mix of Grateful Dead Heads,  both men and women with gotees (The Maynard G. Krebs vibe) and Emma Goldman-looking elderly revolutionariies with canes.  I didn't mingle too much because I was loaded down with capitalist bags -- Whole Foods cookies, Strand Bookstore bags and a greased-soaked Rickshaw Dumpling Doggie Bag,

 
Viva la Revolution.  And,oh yes, Credit cards accepted,
 
    
 

Comments

[Dana]

I have never before found such a great description for a dumpling - Labyrinth Food. I will from now one think of them this way.