We Scream for.....Dumplings!!
This week on I Scream for Ice Cream, we feature the ice cream truck that stands outside the university cafeteria every Monday...
Totally kidding.
So we thought the weather here in NY was getting better but Mother Nature fooled us, it was 75 degrees for about two days. Now its rainy and cold again. BUT we did take advantage of those 2 days to go and get some....... ICE CREAM and lunch too of course.
First stop was, Mimi Cheng's dumplings on 2nd Ave, right around the corner from our favorite place St. Marks. The tiny place was like an indoor picnic area, wooden picnic tables and a wooden bar looking out a window onto the street. The menu was all chalk board, they had a limited selection which made it easy to decide what to order. Mimi Cheng's offers dumplings, the special a vegan burger dumpling, soba noodles, sautéed broccoli, iced tea, local beer, and wine.
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| Sauteed Broccoli Apetizer |
On this dinner date there was four of us at the table instead of tres. All four of us ordered the Mix & Match dumplings, you split your order an half by ordering two types of signature dumplings. Orders come in 6 for $8 or 8 for $10, steamed or fried. I split mine between the Mimi Cheng dumplings and the Reinvented Classic dumplings. The Mimi Cheng dumplings were a mix of chicken, zucchini, scallions, and ginger. These were my favorite, they were perfectly cooked with a nice flavor both hardy and fresh from the zucchini. The triangle shaped dumplings were the Reinvented classic, these were the pork dumplings with bok choy, scallions, cabbage, and ginger. These were not my personal favorite, they had a really strong taste of pork which kind of washed out the freshness of the veggies. Mimi's produces a Mimi Cheng's Secret Sauce, I'm not the biggest fan of sour flavors like vinegar which was the most present in the sauce. However, the dumplings with Siracha were great, while mixing the secret sauce with the Siracha gave it a spicier taste and kind of blocked out some of the vinegary flavor.
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| Mimi Cheng & Reinvented classic dumplings with secret sauce |
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| Lavender Black Iced Tea |
Back to the lecture at hand, there are SO MANY ice cream parlors in the St. Mark's general area, after drooling over tons of ice cream porn on Yelp we decided on Davey's Ice cream. As soon as we walked into Davey's the server at the counter was incredibly friendly and outgoing. She explained how ordering works: you can taste test as much ice cream as you want, you can add toppings, you can get various types of cones (nuts, sprinkles, oreos), you can get any ice cream between two cookies, or on a brownie. Everything is made on the premises and the ice cream production is visible through an interior window. The taste testing was my favorite part the flavors weren't your everyday ice cream choices (Specoulous ChocChip, Mexican Vanilla) and other more familiar flavors (Toasted Pisatchio, Strong Coffee). No lie, I tried 4 of the 8 flavors and I could not be happier. All four of us ordered the Specoulous ChocChip with a variation of the second scoop. I ordered the Specoulous ChocChip which was vanilla ice cream with bits of chocolate chips, bits of ginger snaps, and the Strawberry Swirl, had an amazing taste of fresh strawberries, with hot fudge and nuts. Both flavors were sensational, especially the Specoulous ChocChip Davey's also serves cones with chocolate and fruity pebbles, chocolate and sprinkles with potato chips and their ice cream is out of this world.
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| the flavors, menu, and some interior. |
Cold or hot, head out to the East Village or Willamsburg to scoop up some sensational ice cream or order online cause THEY DELIVER!!!!!! And if you're looking for a place to pick up breakfast, brunch, lunch, linner, or dinner hover board on through Mimi Cheng's for some fire dumplings.
Twas nice chatting with ya
-Daisy 🌼
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| Strawberry swirl with the marvelous Specoulos ChocChip |
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| Roasted pistachio and Specoulos ChoChip |
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