We headed to the new location of Qing Hua thinking that it replaced the restaurant on Lincoln. FALSE. The original location is still opened. To our surprise, the new Qing Hua on Ste-Catherine has a different menu: It mostly only serves soup dumplings (xiao long bao).
The dumplings are handmade and have a delicious filling and a tasty piping hot broth inside that will either:
- Cause a 2nd degree burn in your mouth. Pain is pleasure, right?
- Or worse, spill out if you are not careful. Be gentle when you pick up the dumplings with your chopsticks and use a spoon.
They are the best soup dumplings that I had in Montreal by far. It'd be unfair to compare those dumplings to other offerings that you can find in other cities such as Toronto or Vancouver. But would I come back to this restaurant? Hell yeah... as soon as I can feel my whole mouth again. :P