{"id":153589,"date":"2026-03-05T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:39:23","slug":"keith-lee-invests-in-brooklyn-dumpling-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/153589\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Lee Invests In Brooklyn Dumpling Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"1024\" width=\"837\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/17726612995785.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn Dumpling Shop Multi-Year Partnership with Keith Lee\" class=\"wp-image-1392356\"  \/>Source: Keith Lee and Brooklyn Dumpling Shop \/ Keith Lee and Brooklyn Dumpling Shop<\/p>\n<p>After years of sampling the best (and worst) food around the country and blasting reviews out to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@keith_lee125?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">17 million TikTok followers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cassiuslife.com\/tag\/keith-lee\/\" id=\"328583654\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Lee <\/a>is finally putting his money where his mouth is.<\/p>\n<p>The social media star has announced he\u2019s become an investor in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklyndumplingshop.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn Dumpling Shop<\/a>. Not only is it his first money move within the food business, but it also comes at an integral time. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop currently has 22 stores in the United States and has expansive plans to open more throughout the country and in Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To jumpstart the multi-year partnership, Lee will be on hand at the Dallas location on Friday, March 6, to meet up with fans supporting the dumpling shop. The first 100 guests in line will be gifted brand merchandise, with Lee promising to announce more details about the pop-up appearance on his TikTok, @keith_lee125.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tLove Cassius Life? Get more! Join the Cassius Life Newsletter\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-ione-newsletter-sign-up__privacy\">\n\t\t\t\t\tWe care about your data. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/urban1.com\/privacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">privacy policy<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn Dumpling Shop will also be stepping into Lee\u2019s world with a booth at his first-ever<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.famileeday.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> FamiLee Day <\/a>on May 16 at UNO Lakefront in New Orleans. It will be hosted by KevOnStage and feature performances by Kirk Franklin and Mannie Fresh, and is described as a \u201cone-day festival that will include food experiences, live music, carnival rides, and a family obstacle course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s stamp of approval means the world to any food spot in the age of social media, and this new partnership shows how much he believes in the growing business of Brooklyn Dumping Shop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always believed that food brings people together, and that\u2019s what stood out to me about Brooklyn Dumpling Shop. It\u2019s creative, it\u2019s accessible, and it doesn\u2019t cut corners on flavor,\u201d said Keith Lee. \u201cPartnering with Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is about more than just great food, it\u2019s about community, culture, and creating experiences people can enjoy and trust. I\u2019m excited to be part of what they\u2019re building and to help introduce even more people to something special.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A former MMA fighter, Lee gained fame during the COVID TikTok boom by having food delivered to his home and filming himself reviewing it for his fast-growing audience. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: Keith Lee and Brooklyn Dumpling Shop \/ Keith Lee and Brooklyn Dumpling Shop After years of sampling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,1070,63459,9,24,63,9740],"class_list":{"0":"post-153589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-food","12":"tag-keith-lee","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-tiktok"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}