Popular Soup Dumpling, Ramen Restaurant Planning Stamford Location

STAMFORD, CT — Kungfu Kitchen Little Steamed Buns & Ramen, the popular NYC-based eatery known for its soup dumplings, hand-pulled noodles and hand-folded steamed buns, is planning to open a location in Stamford.

Exterior signage for the business has been installed at 235 Bedford St., the former site of Kyushu Ramen and Sushi, which recently closed.

Building permits taped to the front window note a "minor alteration from a previous restaurant to another. Floor area is 1,656 square feet. Everything existing, except for a new wall and a couple of sinks installation. Includes new exterior signage."

Kungfu Kitchen was started in 2013 by chef Peter Song, an actor who immigrated to the United States from Northern China, according to the restaurant's website. The first location opened up in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in New York City. There is also a restaurant in Times Square.

There is a location in New Haven, along with two in Orlando and Brandon, Fla., and one in Brookline, Mass.

The menu at Kungfu Kitchen features soup dumplings with pork, chicken, crab and pork, or chocolate, along with steamed and pan-fried dumplings, dim sum, and hand-pulled ramen or knife-cut noodles served in soup or stir-fried.

Other offerings include Taiwanese popcorn chicken, cold appetizers, stir-fried dishes, Sichuan hot pot and mala dry pot.

Desserts include red bean buns, red bean and taro puffs, and pumpkin mochi cake.

Drinks include milk teas, fruit teas, slushes, soft drinks and Tsingtao beer.

It's not clear when Kungfu Kitchen will open. Patch has reached out to the restaurant for more information.