Yaso Tangbao Midtown

For soup dumplings, bao and other authentic Shanghainese dishes, look no further than Yaso Tangbao in Midtown. Start with slurpable, steaming hot soup dumplings filled with spicy pork, blue crab and pork or chicken and activated charcoal. The latter gives the dumpling a surprising dark gray tone that makes it all the more intriguing to eat. The restaurant also offers shareable plates like chicken shao mai, sweet and sour pork ribs and steamed bao stuffed with curry chicken, vegetables or pork. For your entree, choose between curry chicken noodle soup, braised pork meatballs over rice with a fried egg and soy-garlic noodles with cilantro.