There's also perfectly fried calamari for $7.50, potato pancakes called patates koftesi ($4) and manti, beef dumplings in mint and garlic sour sauce ($11.50).

When the wet winds blow, the adjacent Czech Hall is filled mainly with Czechs and the sweet smell of beef dumplings.

Heisei's verion of the pan-fried beef dumplings are feather light.

Manti, the tiny beef dumplings in a mint and yogurt sauce, also make terrific eating.

My favorites are the subtly ginger- and curry-flavored beef dumplings, and the vegetable dumplings, which are sweet with onion and cabbage.

With hot buttered tea and steamed beef dumplings, New York's entire Tibetan community turned out to help him celebrate, fitting comfortably into a small East Side restaurant.

I ordered savory tripe and chicken feet, sticky rice wrapped in a lotus leaf, delectable beef dumplings and the best rice pudding I've ever eaten.

Unknowns like beef dumplings, China North style, were instant favorites.

A Chinese reaches for a bowl of porridge of soybeans or rice, a Japanese sips miso-thickened broth and a Korean might eat beef dumplings in broth.