Hakkasan

The dumplings arrive on your table in a ceramic-domed bowl, the cover of which is quickly removed with the panache of David Copperfield yanking a curtain off Liberty Island.

Giant upscale Chinese joint Hakkasan in Hell's Kitchen opened in April with an absurdly expensive menu ($888 braised abalone, anyone?) and since then things have not been going well, critically speaking.

Hakkasan, a giant upscale Chinese restaurant in Hell's Kitchen, opens to the public tonight. Anyone want to share a Chinese style barbequed whole suckling pig for $295?