Dumplings on Velodromedary

Bicycle Dumpling Tour (4th Annual)

Sat, 14 Nov 2015 06:31:58 +0000

Three times makes a tradition– after last year, I had to do it again– organize a bicycle tour of my favorite dumpling shops for friends and strangers through the SF Bike Coalition (picking up hundreds of dumplings as takeout to eat in a nearby park).

I spent the previous weekend scouting, test-riding, and test-eating, and put together a route combining low-key roads, paved off-road paths through Golden Gate Park, and riding along the ocean… with stops for last year’s group favorite (pan fried pork buns and ‘soup dumplings’ from Dumpling Kitchen, eaten in a small park nestled above Stern Grove), the chicken and Chinese spinach dumplings from Kingdom of Dumpling (most notable for the intensely pleasurable fiery orange chili sauce) ferried all the way to a strip of trees and benches at Judah and Great Highway, and new-to-the-ride Shanghai Dumpling King for the eponymous dumplings and ‘dessert’ in the form of sweet BBQ pork buns plus a few other sweet dumplings from across the street, eaten in a nearby playground.

Third Annual SF Bike Dumpling Tour: recap

Sun, 11 May 2014 21:31:00 +0000

Saturday I organized a third “SF Bicycle Dumpling Tour“ (year 1: friends, year 2: public) for about 50 people. Good food, weather, and a casual 15-mile bike ride around the city, with a few hills….

A few photos I took or people on the ride sent me:

Pork and chive dumplings arriving in the park by bike:

For the $10 registration fee (definitely a zero-profit endeavor) you got all the dumplings you could eat, a low-tech copy-and-paste ride booklet (map, directions, trivia, and a dumpling recipe), and some useful tools…

Dumpling Scouting Ride...

Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:50:00 +0000

Scouting potential locations and routes for the Third Annual Dumpling Bike Tour on May 10th (see last year)… and it was a beautiful, sunny, relaxing day with a few friends.

Western Lands Dumpling Tour: recap

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:27:00 +0000

This was the first public ride I’d organized (through the SF Bike Coalition calendar). When 48 people RSVP’d I got a little concerned about logistics, but it all worked out. Here are photos from a few of us:

First off, this is what 100 hot shumai on a bike rack looks like:

The route, with a specific 1 or 2 styles of dumplings planned for each stop:

Tomorrow: Western Lands Dumpling Tour

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:59:09 +0000

It’s time to bike around the city and eat dumplings, again.

This is the first time I’ve organized a publicly-advertised ride (in the SF Bike Coalition Chain of Events), and the RSVP list is up to about 48 so this will be interesting… off we go!

Upcoming: Dumpling Tour

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:23:00 +0000

Inspired by the “fiets & frites” ride last summer, I’m thinking of an “SF dumpling tour by bike” (I need a catchy name) on June 9 [edit: Saturday June 30th].

Tentatively: an 11am -> mid-afternoon tour, with perhaps 10 miles of biking at a casual pace and a hill or two– nothing too serious. And 4+ stops at dumpling shops to get takeout and eat by the side of the road or in a nearby park. It will probably focus on the Western neighborhoods (Richmond, Sunset, West Portal, maybe Balboa Park).