Shanghai You Garden
Shanghainese restaurant · Bayside ·
Shanghai specialties, Peking duck, and soup dumplings
Shanghai specialties, Peking duck, and soup dumplings
"This second, more luxuriant branch of a Shanghai dumpling specialist in Flushing (Shanghai You Garden) offers some of the best XLB in the city, with some particularly crabby pork-and-crab examples, in addition to other venerable Shanghai types of buns and dumplings. It has also jumped on the mega-XLB bandwagon, offering an outsize example (shown), one to a steamer, with a plastic straw to suck a huge quantity of soup out. The dumpling skin is super thick, resembling more of a bread bowl than a dumpling." - Robert Sietsema
"Shanghai You Garden is named after the Yu Garden in the Old City section of Shanghai, which borders one of the longest-standing xiao long bao spots called Nanxiang Bun Shop. At their Bayside location (the original is in Flushing), you can choose between 10 varieties of xiao long bao, all dyed with different colors so you’ll be able to tell what you’re eating from the exterior, tender skin. Our favorites are the classic, bright-yellow crab and pork (which taste noticeably crabbier than most other versions in the city) and a giant thick-skinned version where you slurp the soup out of a straw. Get a bunch, cheers with your friends, and then proceed to suck out the meaty soup out of a gargantuan straw. Make sure to order a plate of pan-fried pork buns that have a thick exterior and crispy bottoms. We haven’t been here yet, but want you to know this spot exists." - Team Infatuation
"This Shanghai restaurant in Bayside, Queens, serves the best soup dumplings in town. Smaller than usual, they’re thin skinned and bulging with a delicate gravy. With a fuller menu than its Flushing branch, it features a range of Shanghai specialties, including small plates, noodles, soups, and bigger feeds like braised pork shoulder, sweet and sour sea bass, and eel in hot oil." - Robert Sietsema
"Shanghai You Garden is named after the Yu Garden in the Old City section of Shanghai, which borders one of the longest-standing xiao long bao spots called Nanxiang Bun Shop. At their Bayside location (the original is in Flushing), you can choose between 10 varieties of xiao long bao, all dyed with different colors so you’ll be able to tell what you’re eating from the exterior, tender skin. Our favorites are the classic, bright-yellow crab and pork (which taste noticeably crabbier than most other versions in the city) and a giant thick-skinned version where you slurp the soup out of a straw. Get a bunch, cheers with your friends, and then proceed to suck out the meaty soup out of a gargantuan straw. Make sure to order a plate of pan-fried pork buns that have a thick exterior and crispy bottoms." - Hannah Albertine
"East of Flushing in Bayside, You Garden Xiao Long Bao—an offshoot of Flushing You Garden—serves the best soup dumplings in town under dumpling master Zhou Jianhua; the dumplings are modest in size but bulge with an amazing broth, and the menu also includes fried bean gluten, sweet sticky rice roll, Peking duck bao, yin-yang soup, and lion’s head meatballs." - Robert Sietsema
