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| - I need to thank whomever left the NY Times 36 hours in Montreal article in the Lonely Planet book I checked out from the library so that I discovered this really delicious sea urchin dumplings that you can't even get anywhere else!!!
I LOVE sea urchin...and when my friends all said they wanted to go to Chinatown for lunch after we got into Montreal, I immediately suggested this place because I saw NYT mentioning its 40+ dumplings offerings, and one of these being sea urchin dumplings.
Even though NYTimes mentioned this place, I was expecting their dumplings to have like an inch thick skins, like most of the places in the North America. But I was so wrong. Well, it's not as paper thin as you would expect from some places in China or something, but it's thick enough to hold the juices of the fillings (but they aren't the soup dumplings), yet, not thick enough that it tastes like a bun more than dumplings.
We had most but one orders steamed, and we ordered pan fried for one of the orders since it cost extra. Man! The pan fried one was really good too. Not greasy at all and the juices are all retained inside the dumplings as well! And I wonder how they do it because some dumplings were "connected" by the "rice paper" (Think of the sheet of dried up condensation from cooking rice)
The best of all, and it's probably biased, is the sea urchin dumplings. I like the lamb dumplings we ordered as well.
The sweetness of the sea urchin blended in with the meat, and all the juices still captured inside the dumpling skins....i was in heaven each bite i took!
The only downside is that they either are not too good with refilling your glasses with water, or they are short-staffed that day.
o...and it's cash only! tourists be aware!
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