Devour those dumplings

Today is the 6th Annual Chef One Dumpling Eating Contest, but more importantly it is the first-ever NYC Dumpling Festival! Noon to five in Sarah D. Roosevelt Park (East Houston and Forsyth), hundreds will gather to consume the cutest of appetizer-sized pocket foods. Dumplings from all corners of the earth - the Chinese bao, the Polish pierogi, the Italian gnocchi - will be celebrated and consumed. I'll be cheering on the competitors with a $5 sample plate in hand.