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| - Had a wicked craving for dumplings and a friend and I decided to check this place out. Place itself is small and cute, with an area showing off staff freshly preparing the dumplings. Beware though the place can get REALLY drafty. We sat at the seats furthest from the door, yet you can still feel the Calgary winter coming in. Even though we saw many photos of their MASSIVE soup dumping all around social media, we decided to save that for next time and stick to the dumplings.
Their dumpling platter jumped out at us. For only $42, you get to choose 36 dumplings (6 flavours) and your choice of 3 starters (small, med, large). I thought it was a good sampling platter. It says it serves 3-4, but the 2 of us were hungry and ambitious so we took it on. We had a little left over so I would say it would be the perfect size for 3 people. They had 3 types of dumplings: steamed, boiled and potsticker. It was hard to remember which ones were what, but I can say that I really liked all of them. I found out that my favourites were pork + shrimp + chives and pork + shrimp + cabbage. Definitely gearing towards the pork and shrimp combo haha. Each of the dumplings were pretty flavourful and moist and the wrapper also had a good chew. The starters we had were the potato salad, spicy miso chicken and the miso braised pork belly. Potato salad was standard, but good. Spicy miso chicken was pretty small, despite it being a 'medium' starter, and had only small pieces of shredded chicken mixed with some sprouts, so it was little forgetful. Pork belly was really flavourful in thick miso sauce.
They also have an abundance of dumpling sauces, each in their own science beaker which is super cute, fitting the whole 'lab' theme. I like the dumpling lab sauce the best, its similar to your standard gyoza-vinegar sauce.
Overall, I really liked the place. The service is super friendly and I think you get a good bang for your buck. They are also on skipthedishes if you don't feel like leaving your place, orders over $20 have free delivery!
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