Today Food, a small unassuming shop at the corner of Sacramento and Kearny, is a surprisingly good dumpling shop that's open for early brunch.
Half of the store is taken up by the counter leaving only about 8 seats separated into 2 small tables and 1 medium table.
The menu is simple: dumpling can be served with soup, without soup, pan fried. Dumplings themselves can be had with various fillings, such as pork, chicken, shrimp, or veggie.
They have a couple other things, but dumplings are their primary offerings, so I ordered that.
It is interesting they serve everything in to-go containers and disposable utensils. Portion sizes are relatively small. The dumplings are size of a wonton, not jiaozhi, so a dozen of them would fit in a medium bowl.
On top are some bits of cilantro and seawood, but the seaweed needs to soak in the broth first. If you try to eat them dry they're too chewy. The soup is a bit savory and good, however, they give you those cheap shallow plastic spoons that are not suitable for soup sipping.
On the table are soy sauce and vinegar (staff claimed these are 5-year aged vinegar, I shrugged) as well as chili crunch of some sort (the kind with beans, looks like LaoGanMa)
Overall taste is quite good, esp. with a bit of that chili crunch to add a bit of umami. Not salty, but savory. Definitely above average dumplings in Chinatown. But at $17 before tip with a can of Diet Coke for a dozen dumplings, prices are... Tolerable.
3.5/5
Half of the store is taken up by the counter leaving only about 8 seats separated into 2 small tables and 1 medium table.
The menu is simple: dumpling can be served with soup, without soup, pan fried. Dumplings themselves can be had with various fillings, such as pork, chicken, shrimp, or veggie.
They have a couple other things, but dumplings are their primary offerings, so I ordered that.
It is interesting they serve everything in to-go containers and disposable utensils. Portion sizes are relatively small. The dumplings are size of a wonton, not jiaozhi, so a dozen of them would fit in a medium bowl.
On top are some bits of cilantro and seawood, but the seaweed needs to soak in the broth first. If you try to eat them dry they're too chewy. The soup is a bit savory and good, however, they give you those cheap shallow plastic spoons that are not suitable for soup sipping.
On the table are soy sauce and vinegar (staff claimed these are 5-year aged vinegar, I shrugged) as well as chili crunch of some sort (the kind with beans, looks like LaoGanMa)
Overall taste is quite good, esp. with a bit of that chili crunch to add a bit of umami. Not salty, but savory. Definitely above average dumplings in Chinatown. But at $17 before tip with a can of Diet Coke for a dozen dumplings, prices are... Tolerable.
3.5/5
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