Xi'an Famous Foods is the best! They are a thoughtful, soulful, neighborly business with absolutely KICKASS food. I live in San Diego, California though. In the two December days it took for the (subsidized) dumpling package to travel from NYC, all 5 lbs of dry ice had evaporated and the dumplings were completely defrosted but "refrigerator cool".
I re-froze them 30 minutes after arrival, which is when the entire package of five servings became a single "borg" dumpling.
How do I pull a single serving out? I slightly defrosted them but ~40% of the dumplings were mangled in the decoupling, like some kind of delicious roadkill. I'd love to avoid this in the future by having the dumplings as XFF and God intended.