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| - I've probably stepped foot into Dumpling Queen just two times over the 10 years I've lived close by. I wasn't a huge fan of Dumpling Queen but seeing as how they rebranded recently into Meet Dumplings, and as a huge fan of dumplings myself, I thought I'd give it a try again in hopes that a decent dumpling shop has opened by Yorkville. Unfortunately, it's not much of an improvement from Dumpling Queen, but it is still an improvement I suppose.
We ordered two plates of dumplings, one boiled and one pan fried, a plate of yeong chow (or they called it yangzhou, same thing) fried rice, and a bowl of soup. The potions are quite big and it's fairly cheap considering how much food you get. I was pleasantly surprised by their fried rice as it was flavourful, but yeong chow fried rice should have BBQ pork which they didn't have, so the fried rice really wasn't a yeong chow fried rice - more like an egg and shrimp fried rice.
We got a corn soup, which came in a huge bowl but ended up tasting quite bland. It was essentially just a bowl of thickened water with corn. It honestly would've been better if they just got a can of creamed corn from a grocery store and heated it up with some chicken bits.
Now the star of a dumpling restaurant should really be the dumplings, and it was just ok. The boiled dumplings were slightly better than the pan fried dumplings. The skin of the dumpling was a little too thick, so it almost tasted a bit undercooked when pan fried. The pan fried dumplings at the Dumpling House on Spadina are much better. The thickness of the skin also dampened the taste of the filling so you couldn't really get the full taste of the pork and cabbage.
My guess is that any dumpling restaurant will start to have a hard time competing now that many of them have started delivering through third party services so distance is less of an issue. You would have to have a top-notch quality dumpling that out-completes the rest of them in order to survive. Meet Dumplings has the location advantage by being the only dumpling restaurant in the location, but as dumplings make great delivery food items, that advantage is essentially moot.
The restaurant seems to be run by a group of very friendly and hard working people, so I really do hope the best for them. The service was friendly, fast, and attentive and it seems like they are trying hard to stay afloat. Perhaps I shall try again some time in the future to see if any adjustments have been made, but until then, this would not be one that I would recommend unless you have an intense last minute craving for dumplings.
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