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“Yumcha-- CLOSED”

Occasion:	Cuisine:	Area:	Cost:	Rating:
Night Out	Asian	West Village	Moderate	Great

re you cheating? Did you read the whole review?) Drum roll please. What I don’t like about Yumcha is….the name.

For starters, Yumcha, which means “drink tea,” in Chinese, is not exactly a word that rolls off your tongue. Nor is it a name that sounds particularly sexy or inviting. But more importantly, it does not seem to speak to the concept of the place. Yumcha is not a tea house. Sure the restaurant serves a lovely selection of teas, curated by tea master Jin R—but this place is not really about tea. Yumcha is really about Angelo Sosa’s tongue-tingling, smile-inducing food. So, to me, Yumcha is the wrong name. And if you’re asking me what the right one is—which you are not, but I’ll tell you anyway—I think Sosa has quite a nice ring to it.

Yumcha is located at 29 Bedford Street (at Downing), 212-524-6800.

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Posted: April 24, 2005

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