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Dumpling Restaurant
Categories: Restaurants Korean Restaurants Chinese Korean, Chinese [Edit]
4385 Sheppard Ave EScarborough, ON M1S 1T9
Neighbourhood: Scarborough
(416) 293-8321
- Hours:
Mon, Wed-Sun 12 pm - 12 am
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- No
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Price Range:
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$
- Takes Reservations:
- No
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Wi-Fi:
- No
- Good For:
- Lunch, Dinner
- Alcohol:
- No
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Ambience:
- Casual
- Has TV:
- Yes
16 reviews for Dumpling Restaurant
16 reviews in English
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Review from Precilla C.
Scarborough, ON
I love this place! Dumpling village is my absolute favourite place for dumplings in town! Although the service here is almost non-existent, and the place isn't really nice at all. But I can easily forgive all that for the cheap and yummy comfort food you can get here.
The dumplings here are awesome! I'm always excited when my bamboo basket arrives with 14 delicious and juicy dumplings steamed to order. I've gotten all sorts of dumplings here, usually a mixture of pork and some osrt of veggie (fennel, chives, cabbage, mushrooms and zucchini, etc.) My favourite is a more standard one with pork and chives. The dumpling skin is thin, but holds up well, and the filling is absolutely delectable!
Another of my favourite is their pan cake with chives and eggs: crispy, pan-fried pockets stuffed with loads of aromatic garlic chives, bits of scrambled eggs and egg noodles. The piping hot filling is addictively delicious. My family always order a batch of these and pack home the leftovers for a tasty lunch the next day.
The pork pot stickers were comforting and yummy as well. The bottom is pan-fried to a beautiful golden brown and has that wonderful crunch. I particularly enjoy pairing my pot stickers with black vinegar and chili oil.
I also favour their braised beef and pancake wrapped in foil: marinated slices of beef shank and spring onions rolled up with a piece of green onion pancake. The tenderness of the meat was a good complement with the crispy texture of the pancake. However, I personally prefer the beef roll at Asian Legend more, as their version is more refined.
Other items that I've had here include shredded meat and cucumber with vermicelli, dressed with a peanut sauce. It was a light and refreshing dish, and the vermicelli was velvety smooth. "Silver buns", which are just simple steamed buns, are soft and well-executed.
For desserts, I've tried their red bean paste cake. The dough is slightly too thick, but there is an abundance of red bean paste to make up for that short fall. Again, I would say that Asian Legend's version is tastier, but this one is quite satisfying as well.
Dumpling Village never disappoints me, and I'm usually stuffed silly when I walk out of the restaurant. I agree with other Yelpers to just skip the Korean dishes and go straight for the dumplings! -
Review from Daphne S.
North York, ON
11/14/2011 3 Check-ins Here
My husband and I are always looking for a great dumpling place and just had to come to give it a try.
We ordered one order of assorted dumplings, the egg and chive pancake and kimchi fried rice. For us the real winner were the dumplings.
The dumplings were huge; huge doesn't even begin to describe it. 14 pieces of absolute goodness. Realllllly good!
The kimchi fried rice was a touch disappointing. I'm used to getting a fried egg on top of the rice and we didn't get that. Barely any kimchi mixed in and it came with shrimp when we had ordered it with pork. Wouldn't order this again.
Egg and chive pancake, we were expecting better after reading those reviews. Ours was far too oily and tasteless. Big disappointment.
At the end of the day, the place is called dumpling restaurant, the name says it all. It's signature food is dumplings, don't have any expectations for non-dumpling dishes. -
Review from Yvonne T.
Okay, so really I give Dumpling House 2.5 stars, but closer to the 2 side than the 3 side.
We ordered the Pork, Chive, Egg & Shrimp Dumpling as well as the Wonton Noodles. After having read the various reviews about avoiding the Korean dishes, I decided to listen to my fellow Yelpers and we skipped that.
The wonton soup base might as well have been water because it was so tasteless and bland. The noodles were a udon-like noodle which was the first surprise of this dish as it is not the traditional noodle used in wonton noodle soup. The second surprise of the evening with this dish was that the wontons didn't have a shrimp filling! It had a pork filling. I didn't care too much for the layer-thick wrapper, but the filling itself was quite savory.
Now onto their supposed specialty, dumplings! The dumpling wrapper is the thinnest and best I've had thus far in Toronto. The filling would've gone quite well with that bland wonton soup base because it was just as blah.
I think that if the filling from the wontons and the wrappers from the dumplings were an item, it would've been wonderful... but unfortunately, the dumpling genie failed to grant that wish!
A good place to go if you want to fill up fast. Our bills came to $12.41 for 2 people and the serving sizes were generous.Listed in: Do you hear that bird going…
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Review from Ming C.
Markham, ON
4/18/2011 1 Check-in Here
Times like this I wish I were blind or poorly sighted...this place looks worse than a hole in the wall...smells "special" when you walk in and honestly...if city inspectors aren't retardo..this place I think would definately be closed down. The washroom is absolutely filthy so please pee in a cup if you must go or wear depends when you come....I promise..you will thank me for this advice. It really made me want to throw-up when I went down there and how unclean it was. I wish there were portable showers cause I felt so dirty when I came out of there....
Anyhow...onto the review. As I was saying...if I were blind or poorly sighted...this place would be awesome! From price to taste to service...it was all pretty bang on. The portions were large and the food was just delicious. We had the pork bone soup, dumplings of course and beef wrapped rolls. I have to say...when we first walked in...expectations were at 0...and then BOOYA! food was fantastic.
Although I expected to get food poisoning or see a rat run across the floor and the building to collapse at any moment....none of these things that my wild imagination dreamt up happened. We left very satisfied and a smile on our face.
We will be back...but likely for takeout. Not sure I can handle the sight of this place...maybe I'm just a snob... :( I guess I'm more high maintenance than I'm willing to admit.... -
Review from Jennifer M.
Toronto, ON
3/5/2011
Scarborough, Friday Night with hunger pains and Yelp on my Blackberry, The SO and I end up at Dumpling Restaurant.
The patrons were mostly Chinese, although there were some Korean offerings on the menu. Banchan was bean sprouts and Kimchi, the kimchi clearly brought in - not fresh and too salty for my liking. (missed the excellent Kimchi from Owl, or House of Soon)
The server was unbelievably sweet. We clearly ordered way too much and she came over to let us know how large the portions are and helped us take some things off of our list. One order of dumplings is comprised of 14 and costs $4.99. We were thinking 5 bucks would give us 8 dumplings at best and ordered 4 full orders.
Tea was hot and very good.
We sampled steamed veggie and steamed assorted pork dumplings, Northern style Tofu skin with hot pepper (vegetarians take note, there were crumbled bits of meat on top) and snow pea shoots with garlic. The dumplings were a little oily, and my SO commented that the pork was extremely fatty. The veggie were very bland, lacking something, and they did not provide ginger with the Chinese vinegar, which I really missed.
The dumplings were clearly made in house, and just soo cheap.
2 Stars, for the quality of the food, 1 full star for the service and the unheard of 14 dumplings for $4.99. Cash Only. -
Review from Kai C.
Toronto, ON
11/29/2010 1 Check-in Here
Decent Northern Chinese type of food. Dumpings, pan cakes, buns, etc.. as well as some Korean dishes.
Cheap and good dumplings. Leeks and Porks ones are my favourite there. The Korean pork stew dish is quite good too, although wouldn't be a dish you'd eat in front of a date as it can be kind of messy.
Another one of my favourites is the tinfoil wrapped beef with onion pancake.
The service is fairly fast and the ladies there are friendly. With their recent renovation, it makes the place feel much cleaner than before. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
Dumpling Village really suffering from identity crisis!! Is it a Korean Restaurant, not really. There are mostly Northern Chinese items on the menu like dumplings. Is it a Northern Chinese restaurant, not really There are a lot of Korean dishes in the menu like pork bone soup, cold wheat bucknoodle soup, kimchi and bean sprout as appetitizers.
The only Korean characters are the 3 on their business sign in the front..and all the rest are in Chinese and English. All the wait staffs here speak Mandarian and even most of the patrons are Chinese.
It is located in a really tiny strip mall.. with limited parkings! To tell you the truth I am in the area for over 10 years I never notice it until I read the reviews on yelp!
We arrived around 6 pm on a Saturday. The restaurant was almost full. The tables are not really packed together, so you still have a certain degree of privacy at least I cannot tell what the table next to me were eating.
We decided on my favourite chives and pork dumplings, kimchi fried rice and Korean cold bucknoodle soup. They are all $4.99.
The cold noodle soup is so so good! Nice and refreshing! and the soup based is a little sour and it really stimulate your tastebuds and just make you want to eat more! (I can finish it all myself! I don't want to share! I want one all for myself next time!)
The kimchi fried rice.. hmmmmm not good! A little on the oily side. There are not much taste, not spicy enough? We could not finish it and end up have to pack it all to go...(not even sure I will eat it, but cannot just let it all go to waste)
The dumplings arrived last! But it really worth the wait! 14 big fat hot dumplings filled up the whole steamer! Yes I counted them 14 of them for $4.99. They are all freshly made, freshly steamed! The skin is nice and thin, not chewy and thick! Oh so delicious! One bite and all the soup are ozzing out! But if they are not burning hot, you can just stuff the whole thing into your mouth and let the soup and favour just explosed in your mouth.
Just a warning. If you going out on a date, please don't come here. Even it is a good place for a cheap date, our bill was $18 for 2 and we were full! But the place can be noisy, the food too good and your date will be too busy eating and just ignore you! Or you will keep eating and eating and you freak all your friends out!
The services here is cold but efficient. We were given extra napkins without requesting... Maybe we looked really messy??
Cash only! -
Review from Karl R.
3/28/2010
The power of Yelp compels you. As Jennifer noted in her review, you might pass this obscure dumpling house every day of your life and never have noticed it. But search Yelp for dumplings in Scarborough and you'll turn up this sucker and amazingly a couple people have reviewed it.
By 7 pm Saturday this place fills up (don't let Jennifer's typical empty restaurant photo fool you) with a mix of Chinese and Koreans (based on a visual sampling of the newspapers patrons were reading). A sure sign. I was the only honkey ("ko jang eee"[1]) in the place but my lone arrival caused the staff no consternation, hand wringing, or sucking of air through the teeth. Everyone seemed to speak good English.
The menu is in English (with typically overtly literal translations) and Chinese. Despite being Koreanized Chinese food and Sinotophied Korean food, there was no Korean on the menu. The menu offers a good range of dumplings. Interestingly prices can be very deceiving (in a good way) and the uninitiated might tend to over order as prices are incredibly low. As Jennifer notes, you get over a dozen over-stuffed dumplings for $5.
The kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokumbap) was pretty sub par. Jennifer noted while we planned this impromptu 2 person "Elder Statesmen of Yelp" UYE that Koreans do weird things to Chinese food but I'll offer Chinese do weird things, and little justice, to some basic signature Korean dishes. Avoid this one (ie the kimchi fried rice... NOT the restaurant) for sure. However, they do up the cold buckwheat noodle soup (neng myun) right. Korean Chinese or Chinese Koreans tend to hail from the North Korean border region and this soup is a signature dish from that region. Like the massive bamboo steamer of dumplings, the soup came out in a huge bowl with enough for three and also rang in at about $5.
Service was quick. Food came out with little delay. And table service seemed to avoid Korean service rules (if you want something, flag your waiter down, otherwise it's assumed everything is copacetic).
Really, if you want to fill two people quickly and cheaply, Dumpling Village is your oppa. Damage was $21 with tax and tip and food packed up to go ("kudurap da restup" [2])
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[1] Korean slang for whitey... meaning "big nose".
[2] Korean for doggy bag. -
Review from daniel c.
Toronto, ON
9/13/2010
This restaurant is a hidden gem located slightly east of Midland Ave. and can easily be driven by if you aren't paying attention! The tip off is that there is a 2-4-1 Pizza on the corner for you to turn in.
I love this place and cannot think of a better value for one of my favourite things to eat in the whole world. Everytime, we have relatives coming up from the states, they always want to come here (and my stomach is more than willing to oblige!)
The restaurant offers a mix of Chinese and Korean food.
Now this place is called Dumpling Village for a reason. We always enjoy getting the assorted as it has a mix of different types of meat and vegetable dumplings. The longer pan fried dumplings (comes in 5) and the smaller dumplings of 15 are also nice and doughy and made fresh to order.
The meat rolled in an onion pancake is excellent as it is always very very tender with a light sauce. I love the fact that they will always try to cut it into the appropriate number of pieces so that everyone at the table gets one.
The Korean Pork Bone soup is an excellent choice for the colder weather. I have to admit that we don't order the Korean food as much since I am too busy stuffing my face with dumplings.
For those a little more adventurous, the egg white dessert filled with red bean with a light coating of sugar. Careful, this is really HOT when it is served so wait a bit before biting into this.
Here are some tips that I have learned in the many many times that I have eaten here.
This place does take reservations so don't hesitate to call. This is especially advisable if you have a large party since they don't really have that many tables that can seat 8 or more.
The waitresses are generally always the same 3 people. When it is busy you will have to flag them down to get your teapot refilled or to even get your complimentary kimchee and bean dish. Don't be afraid to stick-your-hand-up-in-the-air like grade school to get their attention.
They will leave on vacation and the WHOLE restaurant is shut down. Nothing is more disappointing than being ready to eat and finding out that they won't be back for another month. This past year, they were gone for all of February and have been known to take the odd week as well. All the more reason to call than risk disappointment! -
Review from WaYnE c.
Maple, ON
4/14/2010 5 photos
One of those restaurants where everything I ordered was very MEMORABLE. It's kind of a HIDDEN place in the same tiny strip mall that has had the CHEAPEST (asian) hair cuts for 15+ years if you don't care how you look.
The decor didn't have anything to it, I took a photo of one of the RARE items that make this place indicate any signs of being KOREAN resto as well but now I look at it, it looks like its written in CHINESE.
Fried Dumplings, Steam Dumplings were absolutely a pleasure to consume. We ordered Battered Deep-Fried Egglants which were nicely crispy and seasoned but eat it quickly FRESH before it gets soggy.
My meal is not complete without a bowl of NOODLES! Cold Korean Noodle is quite refreshing and had a Medium Boil Egg Half on top. The photo says it all, just as good as the ones I've had near Steeles/Yonge.
This is one of the FEW places I would eat "Water Cooked Fish" because I'm not big on spice. The dish actually took awhile to come, so we figured that the chef actually went out to get a fresh fish. Nonetheless the fish was GREAT and the spices wasn't OVERWHELMING. A non-spicy eater RECOMMENDS it!Listed in: 4+ ****Stars****, Hanguk, Pull my Noodles - Korea +…
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Review from Adam P.
Etobicoke, ON
8/4/2011
I was a little concerned about the washroom reviews, as I desperately had to use the bathroom when driving there. They weren't nice but I've seen worse.
I ordered the pork dumplings. $5.99 for 14 very large dumplings! They took awhile to prepare but the waitress brought me complimentary Kimchi and something else, they both were great. The dumplings themselves were good. Very filling and my bill was $6.77 plus tip. -
Review from Sherry T.
Markham, ON
6/27/2010
The restaurant serves Korean/Chinese food .
They are dumpling are very big and cheap( $4.99 for 14 pieces)!This is my favorite dumpling place to eat dumpling.
the pork bone soup is very good and big.
The cold noodle soup is so so good! because i'm not really like cold noodle.
the staffs are very nice
so it's very good and cheap place to eat . -
Review from Sophia C.
Toronto, ON
1/28/2011 1 Check-in Here
The hot and sour soup is really good! Great dumplings with great price!
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Review from Skye W.
12/19/2009
Torontonians need to yelp more! This is my favorite dumpling place to eat whenever I come back to Toronto. Their chive and shrimp ones and tomato (trust me) steamed dumplings are divine, full of soup and entirely handmade. Their korean dishes are great too. I love the cucumber and peanut buttery paste glass noodles and their spicy beet, carrot, cucumber, and mushroom mixed veggie cold dish. English does not do a good job of describing asian food, which is a HUGE shame because this place is AH-mazing.
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Review from G L.
8/30/2010
Oh how I've missed Dumpling Village since I moved away from Toronto. Love their celery steamed dumplings, eggplant with fish flavour, and cold noodles!! The eggplant makes me come back time and time again and the prices are great too! The Korean pork bone soup is also superb! A few things that bring the rating down to 4 stars: the service is terrible and the atmosphere gives the impression that things aren't so clean. Still love this place and visit it every time I'm back!
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Review from Micah A.
North York, ON
6/8/2009
I ate the chive and shrimp dumplings at the "Dumpling Restaurant". The dumplings were very good and I will go back to try their other dishes. The restaurant serves Korean/Chinese food and the owners are Korean Chinese. The service was great and the restaurant was quite clean.
