Dumpling House

One of my craved favorite restaurants and dishes is tucked away off busy Preston road deep in the back of the strip mall facing Best Buy. If you weren't looking for the restaurant it's easy to miss. Don't be discouraged with a difficult find, it's well worth it.The restaurant is clean, well managed and good for medium sized groups. They have circular tables that accommodate 8 for family style dining. Be aware they close from 3-5pm each day.I've eaten here 4 times now. Service each time has been brisk, professional, attentive but quick and responsive. I wouldn't characterize it as overly friendly or chatty but it's efficient and attentive.The food to me stands out and I love their house signature bun or bao. We've had it steamed each time. It's about the size of a pool ball slightly flattened and steamed to perfection. This is a dish that is hard to eat solo or two people as it comes with 8. The flavors inside the house signature bun is very savory and well balanced. It's not overly greasy and the texture of the bao is delightful. Provided are chili flakes in oil, house signature sauce and soy. We also have enjoyed a few other items off of what is a pretty expansive menu. We've found the portions generous so be prepared.We've had the green onion pancake which was just ok. It lacked a good dispersement of green onion and was a little bland for our taste. The green beans with minced pork is excellent it is fried in oil so delicious but not designed for those diet conscious. We also liked the beef wrap or "burrito" it's an appetizer split into 6 or 8 pieces and good for snacking and dipping. The wrapper is light and beef has good flavor. We've also had a few of the other dumplings and would say they are average to above average. But not overly memorable. The key for us is the house signature bun. Having the option of the dumplings steamed or fried is nice and makes for good diversity if you do family style or come with friends.The combination for us of a signature come back dish, clean restaurant, good value and attentive staff makes this one of our current local favorites.

Dumplings were pretty decent and the stirred fried noodle with beef was good. I'd say if I based the review on just those two things, it'd be a solid 4 out of 5. But I unfortunately ordered the spicy fish fillet with cabbage and it was a massive let down. For the price, I expected there to be a decent amount of fish but the dish was oil-heavy with 85% cabbage and 15% small slices of fish. Also, the fish came out way after we had finished the dumplings and noodles... at one point, our server thought we were already done with our meal and ready to leave and we had to remind her that we were still waiting for our fish.The most awkward part of the meal was when a neighboring table was paying their tab. All I heard was our server semi-whining and confronting one of the guys asking why he wasn't tipping (she kept asking why and why and why he wasn't tipping). I get it, as much as I hate our tipping culture, I believe that people should tip especially at a sit down restaurant with people serving. But I feel like this could have been more of a private matter she could have professionally brought up instead of whining to the guy and guilting him in front of everyone? I think the only reason she stopped questioning him was because he ended up tipping her. Yeah, so combining the experience with the food, it's a solid 2 out of 5.

Dumplings were good, but the other dishes like the golden garlic beef and Chinese bokchoy, not very good. Very little beef with the golden garlic beef. The bokchoy had too much cornstarch. They were short on servers, but they were trying to keep things going.

This location of dumpling house is better than the others. The ambiance is more welcoming and service was good enough to get you fed and consistent with water refills. The dumplings tasted fresh and plump with the filling. Their dumplings will satisfy your dumplings cravings. The two orders I will order again is the cucumber salad that tasted like a seaweed salad but refreshing and the other is orange beef, which was cut to bite size to make it easier to devour! We will back anytime we visit in town!

We almost didn't go to this restaurant because of the average review being on the lower side, but I'm so glad we did! We ordered the xlb, the beef "burrito", beef & beef tendon noodle soup, and Chinese style grill lamb.Our favorites were the noodle soup and the beef burrito. My husband said he wants to go back and get 2 orders of the beef burrito. :P The xlb were good. I agree with others that they break kind of easily. The grill lamb was our least favorite. There wasn't much meat and the dish just tasted like it was missing something, especially compared to the other 3 flavorful items we got.Based on our one experience, I would recommend skipping most of the middle pages.We can't wait to go back!

Really liked this random find! Tucked into the Stonebriar complex. We got combination fried rice, twice cooked pork, and soup dumplings. Fried rice was good, nothing crazy, pork barely had any pork in it & was very oily but very tasty, dumpling could ve nen warmer & with monsoup.

Stopped in for lunch on a Monday with my family and I was pleasantly surprised. Quality and taste was very good. Staff was accommodating with bringing in my stroller with my baby. Ambiance was clean, calm and slightly upscale than your typical fast casual Chinese restaurant. They had several tables sat for lunch, so I'm glad they're getting good business even during the weekday. Definitely a hidden gem I would go back to.

Terrible. Food came out like warm, like it was there just waiting to be served. The dumplings were tasty and came out after the main course was served. Ordered seafood soup prior to our appetizers and they brought out the main entrees and no soup. I wanted to cancel soup, since I did not want to eat it after my entree. The waitress suddenly came out with the soup.Curry fried rice, not too flavorful, especially since it was initially lukewarm and not hot.The food was just okay, the service had many opportunities for improvement.Would not visit again, unless I wanted to order dumplings to go. Service not too welcoming, highly disappointed.

I order through uber eats orange beef, shrimp pork fried dumplings and egg roll. Food tasted great, very good portions, fast delivery. Dumplings are delicious.

Horrible online order experience. I placed an order on their online system for lunch for me and my team at 9 am. The system offered 11 am pick up time, so I selected it. At 10.37 I received a confirmation text stating that they started to prepare my order and it should be ready at approximately 11.02 am. I showed up at 10.55 am to an empty restaurant. No one was in front to greet me. After about 5 minutes I saw a worker talking in the back and had to get her attention to let her know I have an order to pick up. She simply state it was not ready without any apologies. At about 11.13 I asked her again since the order was promised to be ready at 11. She came back and said maybe 10 more minutes. Again without any apologies. They FINALLY brought out my order at 11.22 without a single apology. When I brought up the fact that my order was promised for 11 am, they simply said Elle sorry, we don't open until 11. Well then set proper expectations and don't have your have your system promise 11 and send text confirmation that also say the same. I understand if I ordered last minute during rush hour and they had a restaurant full of people that they are serving. The restaurant was completely empty! They only had a couple of people placing to go orders ( I am pretty sure orders were placed after mine, but theirs were worked on first and ready before mine.). The workers barely apologized and didn't even offer anything to make up for the inconvenience. Terrible service, will never order or eat here again. I used to come here all the time.