Kiu Sang "Joe" Si opened Joe's Shanghai in Flushing in 1994 then in Chinatown in 1995, popularizing xiao long bao in NYC for a generation; his son opened Joe's Home of Soup Dumplings on East 48th Street around 2019 as the Midtown extension of the family program. The format is open-kitchen Shanghainese sit-down with visible dumpling-folding — pork XLB + crab-and-pork XLB as the signatures, joined by scallion pancakes, drunken chicken, and the Shanghainese traditional canon. Lunch specials run weekdays through 3pm; service stretches into evening at accessible Midtown-business-district pricing. The Bowery original carries the lineage-canonical credentials; this Midtown sibling trades on family heritage and the rare-in-Midtown-east open-folding-kitchen experience rather than a separate critic-credential trail. For an inherited Shanghainese dumpling program in Midtown East — the lineage is the editorial substance.