Why Joe’s Shanghai Makes The Most Legendary Soup Dumplings In NYC | Legendary Eats
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- Many places in New York’s Chinatown sell soup dumplings, or Xiao Long Bao, but Joe’s Shanghai is the most famous for the dish. The restaurant says it was the first to bring soup dumplings to New York City, and first opened in Flushing in 1995 and in Chinatown a year later. The dumplings come in either pork or crab meat varieties, served in a bamboo basket, and the restaurant is often packed with long lines. Insider’s Taryn Varricchio visited Joe’s to see why the restaurant is the go-to spot for a full soup dumpling experience.
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Why Joe’s Shanghai Makes The Most Legendary Soup Dumplings In NYC | Legendary Eats
"That broth is so delicious..."
(Spills most of it on the plate)
You had no comment so I gave you one 🤣😂🤪🤣😂😂🤣🤣☺️😊
@@ChintLord you had no reply so i gave you one
@@Matthew-0619 you had no reply so i gave you one
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@@johnnodadgriffin6432 wait was I supposed to reply
And she let the soup dripping just like that, it breaks my heart to see it got wasted
I'd lick the plate. No soup gets left behind! 😉
I'd call for another kind of bao, and wipe a piece if it to the soup on the plate 🤗
@@mirarami1055 Hahaha real professional here!!! R u thinking about Mantou, or the plain steamed buns? That sounds great for wiping the spilled soup haha
@@davidfreeman3083 Whichever that available at the moment, that you & I prefer, Sir! 🤗
@@GrinFlash007 that’s what I do!
I used to be called dumpling as a child. I also love eating all kinds of dumplings. Food is so comforting. Soup dumplings give me twice the comfort.
Sadly no one cares.
@@saugatthapaliya9518 Sadly you don't care.
Hi dumpling
You can tell a lot of hard work and love goes into this food!
I’m really craving soup dumplings now
me: understands cantonese
me: still reads the subtitle
wheetamin same
@Nij Jin same lol, but it wasn't too bad (it was more like translation simplification than actual error) so it didn't annoy me too much
I do this too, to check if the subs are right.
lol same
how to say free hong kong in cantonese ppl?
Totally expected him to speak Shanghainese but it's true that most Shanghainese restaurants are run by Cantonese/Taiwanese. It's actually quite hard to find real Shanghainese food beside Xiaolongbao oversea.
He's from HK. His accent is HK's Cantonese. After so many years in the US, he's still speaking Cantonese to a white.
This video is amazing! Long time in the waiting and of course well deserved! This place has been the best dumpling spot in all if New York for years. I still talk and recommend them to friends and family that visit my home of New York since my move to Los Angeles. And it doesn't hurt that Joe jr has been one of my best friends since high school. 💯💪🗽👑
It’s nostalgic which took me back when I was a kid . In Shanghai culture it’s actually not rude to slurp your food so you can do it as out as you want that’s how I raised . I like to pierce the bottom of soup dumplings , so that soup spills into the spoon , then your gonna have this like nice mixture of like broth and vinegar and then slow . Soup dumpling is called Xiao Long Bao in Shanghai, it means little dragon in China. Ty for this gorgeous video that’s touched ❤️
Long is not dragon, it’s steamcage
wth😂😂xiao long bao means little steam case bun
For a guy named Joe his Cantonese is on point. Lol
Most people from Hong Kong has English name, my dad English name is Paul and my mother's Theresa, those are names their English teachers gave them when they were in primary School in Hong Kong (Hong Kong was a British colony at the time) because most of the English teacher cannot properly pronounce Chinese names ( just imagine they try to call or remember each of their Chinese students native names 🤣🤣)
And of course coming from Hong Kong or Guandong ( which mostly the Cantonese dialect come from) of course he should speak Cantonese perfectly
@@kikyou759 that’s correct
@@kikyou759 what is ur pfp my guy
My family and I use to go there back in the 90s, unfortunately after it got too famous, the quality went down, and better places popped up all over the city. Now it's straight up a tourist trap, you won't find too many locals eating there on most days, especially not Chinese new yorkers
Where do you recommend instead?
@@elegancia6179 Kung Fu Xiao Long Bao in flushing queens hands down has the best in NYC! The Bao in east village is also great, since it’s run by the same owner.
It’s kind of a shame. My family used to travel all the way to flushing to eat there and grab groceries. Now the the flushing location is closed I doubt we might eat there again.
@@tiny2156 it closed what
@@jwonder7618 yeah the flushing location closed and now they only have the location in Manhattan.
Joe's Shanghai- Joe only speaks cantonese and is from Hong Kong lol
Patyl94 this is why America is so great lol!
what I was thinkin glol
Well, I guess it's similar to Hong Kong dim sum, it can be considered part of the dim sum menu. Actually almost all "bao" like things in the Chinese culture are made of very similar ingredients, they only differ in variations of spices and folds/thickness of the outside. Bao are found all across Chinese cuisine, just some regional varieties are more famous than others. Bao literally means "to enclose" in Chinese, so everything with a stuffing can be called bao.
Cause people usually call it Shanghai soup dumbing "上海小籠包 " Shanghai food is part of southern China food and lot of chief in HK leant how to make Shanghai food.That don't mean he is from Shanghai but the cooking style.
@@timon20061995 Chinese people don't care, as long as you can make the food taste like how it does in China, you've already won half the battle. The other half is consistency and finally value.
When she pronounced 小 as" see oh". My heart hurt.
pretty sure she was pronouncing it in cantonese, if that's the case she didn't do too badly
@@gxyxngchx6615 it's a Shanghai dish tho . Not canto
@@boribori311 and Joe speaks canto and is from Hong kong… prob taught her how to say it
@Andrew Lee Bigoted much?
gxyxngchx da f you talking about , even in canto it’s not see oh
0:30 This is like the most ideal Yelp review!
It's impossible for me not to go here afterwards. 😁
Except for when your another continent away, too broke to travel there, and your parents won’t take you there( Cu’s your still bellow 18 years)
@@punsarethelowestformofcome352 True. At least i have options if I travel to NY. I do a lot of shoots for restaurants, so its possible i might go.
this guys tastebuds are broken. the soup dumplings are fine, average in shanghai, but none of the other shanghainese dishes even remotely resemble actual shanghainese food. like, before tasting, just LOOKING at some of their dishes, it looks totally off. like they thicken all the sauces...not shanghainese at all.
Nah... someone who claims he’s been “all over China” would never say this is the best lol. This guy just talks a lot... I’m pretty sure lots of Chinese who weren’t raised to have American tastebuds would strongly disagree.
Literally everytime on youtube at 2AM, this kind of food video shows up on my recommendation.
my 8th grade teacher Ms.Yu took me there a couple of times back in the day i loved it the soup dumplings is my fav cant wait to go back 😋 😍
It is so refreshing to hear Cantonese, as opposed to Mandarin, spoken 😊.
at a shanghainese restaurant
Welcome to America. Nobody speaks Mandarin here except tourists.
He is speaking chinese
mr jack he’s speaking Cantonese. Both Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects of the Chinese language
@@coreykwan5620 Just imagine a tone-deaf person trying to speak *any* Chinese dialect 😁😆!
Love these episodes. ❤️&Respect from Des Moines ! Keep them coming !
Step one: admire dumpling
Step 2: hole in dumpling - or leave to cool and down it in one bite everyone has their ways but I’m what the kids call impatient
Step 3: enjoy soup
Step 4: add sauce
Step 5: down the boi
Step six: repeat.
I like to bite of the top so the soup doesn't spill out.
Joe Shanghai is great, but you really can’t go wrong with soup dumplings in flushing. Shanghai You Gardens is personally my favorite, the soup dumpling and scallion pancake is so good, plus the giant soup dumplings were the coolest thing when i was a little kid
Where I came from it’s called Wuxi, a small town next to shanghai, we have crab meat soup dumplings there, same shape and style, so good. This video makes me extremely hungry!
Love this place, been going here since I was a teenager. Now livng in LA, truly miss this gem
I just had them 2 days ago for the hundredth time and they are still amazing!
Crab or pork? I'd have to try both!
@@BuffaloNickel9 Pork! Crab wasn’t as good, but if you want you can get a mix of them! Btw so jealous. They are amazing!
I love his rosy cheeks, and the way he says "okay," every so often. It feels like a New York way of speaking that he adopted into his Cantonese after being there for so long. Go Joe, Go!!!
Dang, now I’m missing the xiao long bao from Yuyuan garden in Shanghai where Shanghainese soup dumplings were first invented! Went there to that restaurant in 2006 and 2010 and it’s truly the best dumplings ever! Other restaurants in China make nice soup dumplings too, I had a lot of dumplings during my stays in China for a total of 10 weeks split between 3 trips. I really need to learn how to make xiao long bao myself! I have the steamer baskets for it so... I’ve only made potstickers from scratch before (both in China and at home), and sticky rice pyramids in bamboo leafs (while in China)
Darn, now I really need some dumplings in my life! It’s basically unheard of in Sweden with restaurants that serve dumplings at all (I’ve found some in Stockholm though) and even less common for the dumplings to be made in house! We really do need more Chinese restaurants here that make genuine Chinese food and not the usual westernized crap that doesn’t exist in China... Can’t even get a decent bowl of noodles here unless you make it at home!
Also hint to any Chinese who are looking into relocating and starting a genuine Chinese restaurant: Sweden needs you!
My first time out of my apartment after months of isolation, I went to Joe’s and ate in the park around the corner. Heaven.
lobster cantonese was my fav dish as a child ,it was that good report card meal ahhhh the memories
Dumpling is one of best....
Chinese unique delicious food and just love it 😊
Wish I can have some...RIGHT NOW !!
that last dude has no idea what hes talking about hahahaha
And this guy who makes Shanghainese cuisine speaks Cantonese
Cantonese is primary spoken in Hong Kong and provinces like Guangdong in mainland China, though a large number of initial Chinese immigrants who settled in America spoke Canton as their native tongue thus why you see lots of American based media depicting Chinese in America speaking in Canton dialect instead of Mandarin.
I had no idea Joe’s in Chinatown only opened in 1996. I’ve been going there since 1999 when I was a broke, but still discerning, college freshman at NYU. To this day stepping into Joe’s is like stepping into a time capsule: absolutely nothing has changed-not the furniture, the crusty waiters, the dirty and impossibly tiny toilets, nor the xiao long bao. If you wanna know what it was like to live and to live large at the turn of the century, find your way to Pell St. and bite into that XLB!
Love hot soups and similar foods on cold rainy days! 👍
Ive had soup dumplings in shanghai and ive had them in australia, and they're great
Thanks for nice video and information😃
Insider Food needs more educated and well-cultured hosts. It's embarassing.
Damn right
It’s incredible how they hire these people
What's wrong?
Why not stop deciding what's offensive to us?
The pronunciation alone was embarrassing enough for me
OMG!... THE BEST EVER!!!....❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for video
My friend and I found this place 7 years ago. We were starving walking through Chinatown looking for a place to eat. That google search for dumplings led us here and I’ve dreamt about going back ever since
Of all the famous things I had in NYC, honestly, this was the only thing I wanted to go eat again before I left lol.
Idk man there was this one halal food cart I got a lamb gyro from.. so good, I’ll miss that random unnamed carts gyro.
Here in California we have Din Tai Fung, and their xiaolongbao is *really* good, but man, I really wanna try Joe's Shanghai. Looks amazingly good.
Now I want some!
Nah if you live in the uk there’s an AMAZING XIAO LONG BOA soup dumpling place in Cambridge mill rd called noodle plus, the chef was a Michilen star chef in China but he and his wife and boy move to Cambridge and opens the shop there, IT IS brilliant! Just go there!
I was like have I been here before. I actually have it's really good
Uhhh I'd try every single thing in the menu!! Looks amazing
Much love from Italy!
I was just here took my gf.. From Nassau li N.Y... Those dumplings are amazing i wanna go to 🇮🇹 y so bad im 100 Italian Southern
my favorite food ever
My mouth is watering
Joe Shanghai's was such a regular visit for me and my friends in the mid 2,000's, that we had an in with the wait staff that allowed us to almost always bypass the mob that was waiting outside on the curb for over an hour for their soup dumplings. When you sit down, the 1st thing they ask you is how many orders of dumplings you would like. ALWAYS get two if yr with other ppl, everyone always wants more than one order, trust. I also REALLY recommend the Green Pea Shoots dish. SCRUMPTIOUS! If ya can wait, the experience is heavenly, but there are other legendary soup dumpling spots in the area in Chinatown with no wait. But, Joe's is thee most well known. YUM! Once I got to overhear a GF and BF at our table fighting over the soup dumplings, she was trying to show him the proper method so he didn't burn his lip, and it exploded into a whole fight over her "always telling him what to do". lol. But, she was right, let some one school you white ppl if it's yr first experience. LONG LIVE JOES! (The Flushing Queens location is way less packed and touristy, fyi.)
Haha loved the side story
Been to flushing location twice now. And consistent
They really are delicious I’ve had them a few times from Joe
YES JOE SHANGHAI!!!! I am Chinese and it’s like tradition in my family to always eat at this place whenever we are in NYC. I never see any videos about this place 😱 This would be my last meal choice! 😍
wtf's a death food
@@arsenic9750 Food that would eat before you die or on your death bed
@@rhazelanadis3452 its called last meal or the last supper but ok
@@arsenic9750 Just for you I will edit my comment
@@rhazelanadis3452 LMFAO
dw smh
I'm from LA. I go to New York all the time. Every time I’m in NYC, I go to Manhattan Chinatown(personally prefer it over the Flushing Chinatown in Queens) and have tried Joe’s XLB a few times.
Honestly, Joes Shanghai’s XLB is pretty good but I hands down prefer Din Tai Fung here on the west coast.
Really? Joe's looks a lot bigger and juicier though
Holy carp those look delicious! 😋
I hope this place can survive the pandemic I really wanna go here
This looks so yummy 😋
❤ happy new year
2:03
"Obama lemon"
sunnyztmoney lol but I actually know what he said
😂😂😂😂😂
Never have I ever both hated and lived a comment so much.
ok why did i laugh lmao
WOW~ That's delicious
ahhh my favorite dish, seal long bao
Me from Hong Kong: *hold my xiao long bao*
So sad I didn’t know abt this place while I was in New York, definitely gotta try it next time
Inspirational
Damn I need to go to NYC Chinatown again I was there and I missed that place
lol i thought ur profile pic a bicep
Best soup dumplings I ever tasted
Soooooo happy that food insider finally did a video on this place! Hands down theeeee best soup dumplings in NYC and this is coming from a Cali chick 👍👍👍
It feels weird watching this now seeing how packed that place is. I hope they’re still open.
Looks good 👍👌😊
It's look so easy to shape the dumplings but seriously it's the most hardest thing 🥺
Coming from a Chinese myself that prononciation was funny af 😂
Wish Miami had something like this
That moment (1:53) when “Joe” speaks Cantonese to an American. You just know the Sew Lung Pao is goooood
My favorite dumplings are kothey dumplings
This is the reason I’m still alive
Sadly there's only one Joe's Shanghai left in NYC, there used to be Three. I would go every Friday with a friend to the one in Flushing Queens which was the original location.
Wow
I love how enthusiastic that guy with glasses is, he is like 'Going back to China? Haha!! No, thank you, this dumpling is more than enough, fam 😎'
He's delusional
Go to Taiwan and visit the originsl Din Tai Fung .. you’ll notice the taste difference for sure
Wow daryl and colombus
Heyyyyyy Minnesota!!!
I went to Joe's Shanghai in Flushing for my sister's birthday
Went there just because it's good.😏
Fung bros brought me here 🥟
Minnesota!!
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They moved to a different location FYI, another restaurant took over but is still called joe’s and serve the dumplings
0:43 name of the song. Plz someone tell me....
Soothing voice yah
i love how in Cantonese he's just like "ya if it looks cool people will eat it", while the reporters are like :O
We have good dumplings too.
The host pronounce xiao long bao perfectly in Cantonese, I am pleasantly surprised
if you’re in california the go to spot is at din tai fung for a good xlb
That thumbnail.....😍😍🤤🤤😋😋😋
Joe Shanghai has moved to 46 Bowery which is around the corner from 9 Pell St.
4:10 name of background music?
Still have not had soup dumpling!😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
When you understand Chinese well and the narrator pronounces stuff wrong
RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE😂🤣😂
Love Pork dumplings 🐽🐖
So I'd say it's a given that everyone is craving soup dumplings right now!!..😂
What is everyone going with crab or pork?
I'd have to say I'll be trying both...
2:27 is that tyler posey and holland roden from teen wolf in the middle pic?
Yep
0:18 I don't mean to be rude but as a Chinese person hearing her pronounce every word completely wrong was funny, I didn't even recognize what she said until I realized what the dish was.
Aku orang indonesia aku suka maknan yangbdi post dichannel ini menarik sekali
What makes a soup dumpling so special? The damn soup...
I would totally go if I could! #notificationsquad
And...I get a Gordon Ramsay ad.
👁️👄👁️