Pan Fried Soup Dumplings in a Calm Manhattan Setting
Shanghainese dim sum, mushroom noodle soup, and crispy General Tso tofu fill a quiet room just off Fifth Avenue.
🥢 Beyond the Soup Dumplings
Start with the pan fried pork soup dumplings, and give them a second before the first bite. They run notably large and arrive full of hot broth. From there the menu widens into mushroom medley noodle soup with a light, flavorful broth, crispy General Tso tofu with a soft center, and light scallion pancakes.
The supporting cast holds up too. String beans come moist with a crisp edge, sesame chicken stays lightly battered, and pork and shrimp fried rice rounds out a table that orders across categories. The dining room is quiet and calm, a rare thing this close to Fifth Avenue, and it makes Baodega an easy pick for a long lunch or a catch up dinner.
Weekdays run from eleven thirty AM to nine thirty PM, while Saturday and Sunday open at noon and keep the same close. Find it at 7 West 20th Street, and order more dumplings than you think you need.
