Small Chinese restaurant offers homemade style dumplings, buns, and other great dishes with big portion sizes and affordable prices. Long wait times are merited for tasty goods - but I wouldn't come here hungry.
What I Liked: lamb dumplings, soupy buns, seaweed salad
What I Didn't: anything with cabbage, and the green onion pancake was meh
What I'd Get Next: lamb dumplings, soupy buns, seaweed salad to be safe, and probably experiment with one of the chicken dishes next
The name of the restaurant is on the DineSafe pass past the front door, but besides that, there's no sign once you walk past the overhang.
It was packed on a Sunday evening, and apparently it's always packed according to the server. Small restaurant has a small kitchen - so it also takes time to get your food - nearly half an hour. Servers speak in Mandarin but can be prompted in English.
CABBAGE. Just avoid it.
VEGETARIAN POTSTICKERS: little bland, but actually went well with the seaweed sauce.
LAMB DUMPLINGS are real good. Thicker skin than some places keeps the soup inside hotter for longer! Soup itself is less gamey than Dumpling King but it was a chivey/sweet-ish twist to it. They come steamed or boiled. Great value.
SEAWEED SALAD was surprisingly good. Vinegar based dressing/sauce with green onion and garlic gives it good flavour. Also, really good portion size!
SIU LONG BAO ("soupy buns"). Damn good.
I'll be back when I'm in the area and not HUNGRY.