My wife and I hit this place everything we are in Montreal now and it always treats us well. We arrived mid-afternoon so the place was not that busy, for those whose reviews complain about the "time" it takes to get the meal, you obviously aren't watching through the glass window as they make EACH order as it's ordered. I watched the 4 ladies in the back make the dumplings that went into our soup (great on a -11 day) and shortly thereafter make the two sets of dumplings that we had fried. Our favorite is the beef and coriander, yum! Food comes out fresh and hot and incredible.
This is not a fancy place but who cares when the food is so good. And it's cheap.
Only real complaints are that the tables are small so hard to hold the tea pot, soup, and dumplings on one table. Also, for those travelers using AMEX, no go here. Oh yea, and a few more napkins at each table could help, we had 1 to split :-)