Perfect Lunch fro 20 Degree Weather

Shanghai Café Déluxe, 100 Mott Street, NYC 10013.  1/25/13.

What can be more satisfying than hot, freshly "Steamed Tiny Buns with Pork?"  These "buns" are more commonly referred to as soup dumplings.  No matter what you call them, they were a welcomed lunch on a frigid day.  At lunch there is a $4.95 per person minimum.  Since the Tiny Buns with Pork are $4.95 for 8, you just have to order more food.  We tried the Sticky Rice in Bamboo Leaf ($2.95), which was hot and gooey with chunks of roasted pork with bacon-y tasting edges.  Decidedly different from my paw-paw's Cantonese-style sticky rice, but still quite tasty.  Shredded Turnip Short Cake ($3.95) was indeed shredded turnip, mildy seasoned, in what the French would call a pâte brisée.  Turnips count as veggies, don't they?  Eating the Chinese cabbage leaves upon which the tiny buns were steamed also helped make this a well-rounded meal.  Total cost $12.90.