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| - Dumplings! They're delicious. I make my own at home all the time, but with store-bought wrappers, so I was keen to taste the fresh-made variety from a real dumpling house. Enter Mother's. It looks small and grubby from the outside, but inside is a spacious dining room that looks right onto the kitchen where you can see the staff rolling and packing and crimping the dumplings right in front of you - a nice touch!
I'm most partial to steamed dumplings, and ordered some of the pork and chive variety as well as some vegetable ones. A green onion pancake and a couple of steamed red bean buns rounded out the meal. They let you mix and match dipping ingredients to suit your taste at the table, but there's no delicious pale pink vinegar (my favourite dumpling condiment!) available.
Unfortunately, as the dumplings are made fresh, the food took a while to arrive. There's little in the way of service to speak of, either: you get your teapot, you get your order card, and then you fend for yourself.
The onion pancake made for a pretty good, if salty, snack. It was piping hot and not too greasy, and nicely crisp on the outside, but noticeably mushy inside when it could have been flakier. It did come with lots of onion filling, though.
The dumplings were very well done, as I had hoped they would be at a place called "Mother's Dumplings." You really can taste the just-rolled freshness of the dough and there's plenty of tasty filling in each morsel - it's great, but I wish that the wrappers were a bit thinner, as when fresh like this they seem to have a slightly doughier texture and taste that's made more noticeable by the thicker wrapper. They do arrive very hot, though, and you have to be careful not to burn your mouth as you might be eager to start eating after waiting for the food to arrive. I would suggest letting them cool a bit - the flavour of the filling is more noticeable that way.
I was torn as to how to feel about the steam buns. I love red bean, and the filling was spot-on, but the bun itself was bland - it feels like there's a lot of bun and not a ton of beans. It had a wonderful pillowy texture when eaten right away, but turned flat and chewy by the time I got around to the second bun.
Give Mother's a visit if you want exactly what it says on the sign, made fresh, in clean and casual surroundings - and you don't mind waiting. They serve good food but are hampered by their inability to nail the little things, and the service doesn't do the food justice.
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