Menya-Gumi now offering house-made dim sum
Chef Angel Cheng expands his Japanese menu in this New Haven urban eatery
Chef Angel Cheng and the Cheng Family first opened their 1700-square-foot Japanese noodle house in New Haven (165 Orange Street, New Haven, CT 06510) in August 2020 and has since made their mark on New Haven’s eclectic dining scene with its relaxed dining room, open kitchen, and small Japanese menu rooted in ramen, sandos, and karaage. Adding to Cheng’s popular comfort food offerings, a variety of scratch-made dim sum specialties prepared by old-school dim sum chefs made their way onto Menya’s menu over the holidays.
The dim sum menu changes weekly. Highlights include Shrimp Dumplings (Har Gow), Pork and Shrimp Siu Mai, Shrimp and Chive Har Gow, Chicken Feet, and Garlic Pork Ribs.
Chef Angel Cheng spent four years working internationally throughout Hong Kong and beyond. Cheng’s kitchen cred included time spent at Zuma, a contemporary Japanese cuisine and robatayaki in Hong Kong, The Ocean by Augustin Balbi, a fine dining seafood restaurant at Repulse Bay in Hong Kong, and Killer Noodle, a Japanese tantanmen shop, a segment of Tsujita, a popular Japanese ramen company in LA.
Ramen is the specialty of the house. From the rich and most widely known paitan broth to the more unique and tantalizing clear chintan broth, Chef Angel Cheng has mastered the art of ramen making, inspired by old-school sensibility with a new-school attitude. Menya-Gumi features an array of popular Japanese appetizers such as hand-formed pork gyoza with sesame and ginger, kara-age fried chicken, tempura shrimp with wasabi honey mayo, and tebasaki sweet garlic wings. Menya-Gumi’s popular “sandos” include the fluffy Japanese egg omelet sandwich and generous “don” rice bowls such as the tasty katsu fried pork cutlet and rice bowl. Bubble tea and imported Japanese beer, sake, and spirits round out Menya-Gumi’s menu offerings.
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