NYC restaurant offers rare giant soup dumplings as big as your head
NY Post
Wow, that bao!
A Chinese eatery in Tribeca is giving New Yorkers something to talk a-bao-t with a highly coveted dish that requires a big plate: a giant soup dumpling the size of your face.
Upon The Palace, which opened at the end of 2024 following a multimillion-dollar renovation, has introduced Shanghainese tang bao, dumplings weighing a whopping 6 ounces and stretching 5 inches in diameter.
The restaurant claims it’s the only one in Manhattan and the US to sell the unctuous XL pouches of pork bone broth, crab and pork meat, priced at $15.
“It’s very, very popular in China, but I found out there’s no restaurant selling it here,” the restaurant’s director of operations Nick Yang told The Post. “We wanted to offer it as a promotion for the Lunar New Year.”
Tang bao is similar to a traditional soup dumpling, xiao long bao, found at most dim sum shops across the globe, but jumbo in size. It’s made by wrapping a filling of meat and gelatinized broth in a soft, thin dough and steaming it, but with a larger size of dough, a bigger slice of pork and more crab paste.
