It's difficult to detect the sea cucumber in White Bear's pork-shrimp-sea cucumber dumplings (ten for $4.75). The ocean-dwelling invertebrate is most famously employed as a vehicle for sauce, and in these dumplings the most telling indication, noted my dining buddy, might be a certain smoothness of internal texture. In this case, lubricious is delicious.
White Bear
135-02 Prince St. (Roosevelt Ave.-40th Rd.), Flushing, Queens
718-961-2322
