Joe's Shanghai, Chinese restaurant in Manhattan, United States
Joe's Shanghai is a Chinese restaurant in Manhattan that serves traditional Shanghai cuisine dishes, with dining rooms filled with red lanterns and wooden furniture. The menu offers a wide range of noodle dishes, organ meats, and other classic plates alongside its famous soup dumplings.
The first location opened in 1994 in Flushing, Queens, before the Manhattan branch launched in 1995. This expansion helped bring soup dumplings into the city's dining consciousness and established it as a major spot for Shanghai cooking.
The restaurant is famous for Xiaolongbao, delicate dumplings filled with pork or crab and hot broth prepared the Shanghai way. Visitors can watch the cooks prepare these specialties with great care.
The restaurant is located on Bowery in the Chinatown neighborhood and is easy to reach on foot during the day. The space becomes quite crowded during rush hours, so arriving at quieter times or on weekdays helps you avoid long waits.
Each soup dumpling is hand-folded with exactly fourteen pleats, a craft requiring special training. To properly enjoy this specialty, you need to use a specific technique to avoid spilling the hot broth inside.
The community of curious travelers
AroundUs brings together thousands of curated places, local tips, and hidden gems, enriched daily by 60,000 contributors worldwide.
