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| - My fiance and I were excited to see a dumpling restaurant open in the area! I'm in love with soup dumplings. And China Mama down the street does a pretty good job of it. It's no 626, but its still good.
They have their own parking lot. Plus!
But first impression is.. the place smells. It's a very pungent bathroom odor. I wouldn't mind if it smelled like cleaning supplies.. but a smelly bathroom/sewage scent is NOT the way to go when you're eating! But it's an asian restaurant. Things like this slip through the cracks all the time. We stayed. We eventually got used to it.
The menu has a lot of items! Most of the English descriptions are pretty vague. So the pictures help a lot. We got lost in all of the choices and took awhile to order.
When we did, we ordered the pan fried beef patties, the soup dumplings, and hot and sour soup.
The patties were good. Crispy, flavorful, and tasted great with a little bit of vinegar and hot sauce.
The hot and sour soup was not as savory as other places I've had, but it was tasty as well. Full of flavor, jusy enough sour.
The soup dumplings normally take longer and were the last to arrive at the table. Tip: normally if you know you're ordering this dish, you should put in the order first. The dumplings were good. As a personal preference, I like my dumplings more sweet than salty, but here they make it salty. Also, there is actually not that much soup in each one.
The menu had other delicious sounding items so we'll probably be back to try other items. But they need to fix that smell!!
Overall.. 626 dumplings beats NY dumplings beats China Mama beats Dumpling King
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