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| - I stopped by Beijing Dumplings during a recent business trip to Toronto. It is a clean restaurant with very friendly staff. Menu is very straight forward. My coworker ordered pork (w/ cabbage) dumplings and I ordered pork with "chives" (should be leeks according its Chinese). Both kind of dumplings came out GREAT! Price is awesome too. For $8 or $9, you get a small dish (pickled seaweed + lotus roots) + 10 dumplings + fruit. Mind you, we already ate dinner but we finished all of our dumplings anyway! Dumpling skin/wrap was handmade to a good thickness, and the stuffing is not too fat or too lean either. Overall, it's very enjoyable experience. One of the ladies in the kitchen, Veronica, even gave us free samples of her chicken and shrimp dumplings to try after I chatted with her for a bit.
My coworker and my return flight was cancelled due to poor weather, and guess what? We went back there AGAIN straight from the airport. Personally I don't care how bad a restaurant is during its opening quarter. Top chefs restaurants don't earn a Michelin Star anyway. It takes time to sort out all the kinds in equipment, staff, and logistics.
Anyway, if you like dumplings, definitely go check out this place in Toronto!
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