Located in one of the many old buildings that make up the Leather District, Hei La Moon is absolutely huge inside, with the ground floor having a sprawling main section that stretches a good distance to the back and a smaller and slightly more intimate area by the front windows, while a similarly large basement section fits many more patrons. And while this is a sign that Chinatown has been spreading out a bit over the years, it is still close enough to the heart of Chinatown to be easily walkable from the main part of that neighborhood, while being just far enough away to be a bit of a hidden gem (albeit an enormous one).įrom the people in relatively formal clothing who welcome diners at the door to the waiters and waitresses in uniform, Hei La Moon is different from many of the more informal cheap eats restaurants found in Chinatown. Indeed, Hei La Moon, a mostly little-known restaurant and dim sum house, is located on Beach Street, but it resides on the other side of the surface artery from the main part of Chinatown, really more in Boston's Leather District than in Chinatown itself.
Some very good dining spots can be found on other streets as well, and one eatery is, well, not exactly IN Chinatown.
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But the flavor was worth the struggle so I recommend you try these.Boston's Chinatown is a neighborhood full of good restaurants, many of which are concentrated along Harrison Avenue, Tyler Street, Hudson Street, and Beach Street. The rice flour wrappers were a little gelatinous and I found them tough to pick up with chop sticks. Instead the filling definitely included big cubed pieces of seasoned water chestnuts that provided an enjoyable crunch. Pork with peanuts steamed dumplings – These dumplings were really delicious, although I am not sure if they actually contained any peanuts. We tried the pork with peanuts steamed dumplings, the shrimp with spinach dumplings and the steamed juicy pork buns. The Dumplings: As would be expected in a Dim Sum house the Windsor has an extensive list of dumplings. The restaurant helpfully supplies a menu with pictures and numbers that correspond to the check boxes on the card. The Windsor doesn’t provide the traditional Dim Sum experience of ordering food from little carts that are pushed by the staff from table to table, instead the waiters provide cards listing all the dishes and you put check marks next to what you want. The reviews on Yelp indicate that Windsor Dim Sum Cafe is the best Dim Sum house in Boston’s Chinatown, and my informal polling of people on the street in Chinatown seems to back that up.
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