1. americastestkitchen: Get ahead of the game this week with our make-ahead DIY Thai Green Curry Paste. While we at Dumplr are all about the dumplings, we do eat other things on occassion…

  2. Dear Tumblr, Let’s Eat Dumplings Together!

    marksbirch:

    Are you following me on Tumblr?  I would like to know who some of you are, at least those in the NYC metro area, therefore I have a brilliant idea.  Would you be interested in joining me for one of my NYC Chinatown Dumpling Tours?  Just look at this fun group in front of Nom Wah Tea Parlor (great dim sum alert) from my last tour last month!  Insert you there and prepare for a delicious adventure.

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    So what are the details and how do you sign up?  Well my next dumpling tour is this Saturday at 3 PM in Manhattan’s Chinatown.  You can sign up for the tour on Gidsy.  It is $30 per person, it takes between 2-3 hours, and we hit between 7-8 different dumpling shacks covering a wide range of dumpling styles and regional Chinese cuisines.  I dispense oodles of knowledge about dumplings and Chinese food and the history of Chinatown.  You even get to bring home your very own red solo souvenir plastic cup!

    Therefore sign up now and hopefully I will get to meet you this weekend in person!

  3. marksbirch:

    A Very Dumpling Thank You!

    Last week I hosted two NYC Dumpling tours to support Superstorm Sandy relief efforts.  I am happy to announce that the turnout was excellent, much eating was accomplished, and $600 in total was raised for the Food Bank of New York City’s Sandy emergency response fund.  I wanted to thank everyone that eagerly signed up for the tours, everyone that helped spread the word about the event, and especially my friends at Gidsy that very kindly contributed their share of the booking fees support this cause.

    This is but a drop in the bucket when compared to the tens of billions in clean up costs for what was deemed the storm of a century.  Many are still picking up the pieces of lives shattered by the aftermath of the storm.  However, even contributing a little can make an outsized impact and gives hope to people that are looking for some semblance of order and normalcy in their lives.  If you wish to help out to ensure no one in our local community goes hungry this holiday season, please donate or find local volunteer opportunities.

    I sincerely thank you again and I look forward to hosting more awesome food tours in the near future!

  4. marksbirch: The Joy of Dumplings I love dumplings.  I love exploring the hidden nooks of cities.  How best to combine these two passions?  Well, I give tours to like minded food adventurers of course! I have been doing this for fun for the past two years.  It was something of a lark that I asked a friend of mine if he would like to walk around Chinatown trying dumplings to see which one was best.  We quickly gathered over twenty people to join us and off we went.  It was so incredibly awesome, we continued to do these tours first doing soup dumplings, then heading over to Flushing, all the while keeping the whole thing very lo-tech and lo-key. Over time, I have gotten pretty organized and professional about the process.  I use Gidsy as my booking engine, I got various social media accounts set up, I have spreadsheets tracking bookers, and I am in the process of finalizing the official Dumplr website (the name was something of a joke and a play on the tech startup names, but it stuck). Now I am organizing two tours next week for charity.  Plenty of folks got beaten down by Hurricane Sandy.  Lots of businesses in Chinatown took a financial hit.  What better way to help out than to spend money with these hard hit businesses while supporting those still recovering from the storm?  With a dumpling tour and donating all proceeds to help with the Sandy recovery efforts!  So please sign up for one (or both) of the tours, or share with your friends, family, and work colleagues. NYC Feast of Shanghai Tour – Monday, Dec 10 at 6 PM NYC Chinatown Dumpling Tour – Tuesday, Dec 11 at 6 PM Thanks a lot and I look forward to seeing you there as I continue to spread the Joy of Dumpling!

  5. Dumplings and Donations

    marksbirch:

    I had plans to host a couple of my NYC Chinatown dumpling tours the week of October 29th and had quite a few sign-ups.  I love hosting these tours.  They have become something of a labor of love over the past two years and yet I have not tired of the dumplings, the neighborhood, or the awesome people that trek with me throughout Chinatown.  So I was anxiously excited about the tours when disaster struck the East Coast and sent the storm of a century barreling through the NYC metropolitan area.

    We are now a month removed from the day Hurricane Sandy ravaged our city and suburbs.  Down the NJ shore where I live, I saw devastation that was simply too hard to believe.  I had friends in NYC and the south shore of Long Island that had to evacuate their homes due to the ravaging floods.  While most have returned home and life for the most part has returned to normal, there are still plenty of folks that remain homeless and plenty of folks that face an uncertain future.

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    I had held off on hosting any tours as people were digging out from the mess.  With things settling down however, I felt it was high time to host some holiday season tours.  But this is also the season of giving and to that end, I am hosting two tours next week and donating all the proceeds to charity to help Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.  Please sign up for one (or both) of the tours below:

    NYC Feast of Shanghai Tour - Mon, December 10 at 6 PM

    NYC Chinatown Dumpling Tour - Tues, December 11 at 6 PM

    Why join my dumpling tour you ask?  Well, not only do you get to eat obscene amounts of food at some of the best dumpling shacks and Shanghainese restaurants in NYC, you are helping those recovering from Hurricane Sandy and helping the small businesses in Chinatown that took a major hit during the storm.  You might even consider “gifting” a dumpling tour for the holidays to friends or loved ones.  Let this be the season of giving and dumplings and look forward to seeing you on a future tour.

  6. marksbirch: NYC Chinatown Soup Dumpling tour this coming Monday! People always ask what the soup dumpling tour is like.  I tell them is it like food nirvana, but pictures always tell a better story.  So here are some pics of our favorite dumplings from past tours.   Book online at Gidsy and join us for delicious food, good conversation, awesome people, and major food coma!

  7. Gidsy Logbook: Gidsy Day Update

    gidsy:

    photo: State Library of New South Wales collection | http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryofnsw/6597392833/

    Our 1st birthday is coming up soon, and as we announced last week, we’ll be celebrating all day & night on November 10th and would love you to join us!

    All throughout the day there will be fun Gidsy activities happening in Berlin - and in many other cities - all for only 5 bucks! At…

  8. Dumplings at Talde, 369 Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn

  9. Scorpions for dinner anyone?

    (Source: love-china-slurp)

  10. You can never go wrong with Shrimp Dumpling Noodle Soup

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