Dumpling House - Toronto

I liked just about everything we ordered here - spring onion pancake with smoked beef roll, pan freid dumplings, beef salad, hot and sour soup, soup dumplings - all the basics of Northern chinese cuisine. There are tastes which I like a little better at Asian Legend or Dumpling House on Spadina, but all in all, this place is closer, no waiting and a little cheaper. Friendly service and good hours. In winter they used to have hand pulled noodles - I hope they will be bringing that back.

Depending on where else you have had dumplings you may or may not like this. Personally I wasn't blown away. The filling was packed loosely so that when you bit into it, it fell apart easily, not something I care for. The dumplings including the wraps are made in house so that was good & I think I noticed somewhere that they don't cook with preservatives or MSG. There was someone actually standing behind the counter rolling out the wraps and assembling dumplings. It's actually pretty impressive to watch them turn a little round ball of dough into a thin round disk. The chef seems a little heavy handed with the salt as a few of our dished were extra salty. Also, in my opinion they use too much oil. I had my dumplings with lots of ginger & red vinegar to help cut down the grease. Things I liked: the soup filled dumplings (not the best I've ever had but still pretty good), the beef wrapped onion pancakes, and the flavour of the pork & dill dumplings were good.Things that could have been better: dumpling fillings should be a denser texture (should not be loose), older thicker stocks of the snow pea shoots should be picked out & not served, and use less salt & oil. I prefer the Dumpling House on Spadina or better yet some of the dumping places in Scarborough, Markham or Richmond Hill.

Excellent food, friendly service. We've had dozens of things on the menu over the last year and the dumplings are the best. We'd give it 5 stars if the kitchen staff didn't take 22 minutes to fry our dumplings every time. We like this place. But prepare to sit and watch So You Think You Can Dance China for half an hour, even for take out.

I went to this place after reading the reviews and was not disappointed. I originally went here because I didn't feel like driving to Spadina, but now I have a closer awesome dumpling place! had the chicken, and the veggie dumplings. Both had amazing flavors, the veggie probably had fennel (the vegetable not the seed). The chicken was so good you could eat it without sauce. The hot and sour soup large is big enough for two hungry people, and is quite spicy, tons of tofu, bamboo shoots and mushroom pieces. Also tried the deep fried tofu, which was a large portion, and was in a brown sauce. Restaurant is long and narrow, very tidy, and a woman was making the dumplings behind a counter. Great find!

Stopped in on a rainy day. The lamb dumplings were good as well as the beef pancakes. Service fast and very pleasant. Nice hole in the wall. Would return.