The Dumpling House on Gerrard
Great addition to Gerrard and Broadview area, east of Broadview half a block, south side, the Dumpling House no relation to Spadina place.
Had both fried and steamed dumplings, very good. Hot sour soup and cumin with lamb was also good. Very affordable. Northeast Chinese food. Nice decor, good service but only one waitress.
Merry Christmas to us all and enjoy the dumplings!
-
-
scarberian
Apr 1, 2013 12:40 PM
Just had lunch there today after visiting the family doctor. Thank god for forums like this on Chowhound or I may never have tried this place. I just saw this posting on Saturday and when I was walking to my doctors today I remembered this posting as I passed the place (it's literally 3-4 storefronts from my doctor's office - I should get sick more often!). The place is small and clean with one server. Someone mentioned getting another server, I don't think the space will allow it since the aisle is only big enough for one person at a time.
I ordered the Hot and Sour soup and a serving of the leek, pork and shrimp dumplings. The soup was a small but easily shareable between 2 people. It was spicy enough to clear your sinuses (which I needed), but not overpowering and sour enough to be enjoyable. I noticed thin slices of translucent pork (ham?), nice pieces of tofu and slivers of oyster mushroom. Overall quite nice, one of the better ones I've had in years.
The dumplings are hand made. There were 2 women at the counter rolling out the dough and filling them by hand. They were using the small, thin wooden sticks to roll out the small portions of dough. There was texture to the filling. Some places you get a mash of leek, pork and shrimp, so ground up that it's just one meatball of filling. Here you get pieces of shrimp and leek mixed with ground pork. Each dumpling was about 5 cm long and fat. When you bite into them there is a little bit of broth that's released and the flavour was excellent. The do sell frozen, uncooked dumplings if you wanted to take some home and cook them yourself.
The small soup was just under $4 and the dumplings were ~$6 for a dozen. I also ordered 2 more orders of dumplings for the family to try and my total bill came to $26 (pop + soup + 3 orders of dumplings). I will definitely go back again.
-
Been awhile now, can anyone report on vegetarian options? Even though there's only a couple of options at Mother's Dumplings I really enjoy them, so I don't need a ton of choices. Couldn't find a menu online.
›3 Replies-
re: fluffysouffle
Teep
Mar 28, 2013 07:26 PM
Full menu can be found at http://dumplinghouse619.com/menu/ - only 1 veggie version available.
Happy to find another place that offers both xiao lung bao and glutinous rice balls, looking forward to trying it.
-
-
-
-
Dr. John
Jan 17, 2013 08:34 PM
We went there a few nights ago and were very pleased. We are not Northern Chinese experts and can only compare to the stuff we've had at places like Mother's Dumplings and Chinese Traditional Buns.
We had the pickled cabbage, oyster, and lamb casserole mentioned above, which was a huge bowl of soup with sauerkraut-y cabbage, glass noodles, tender lamb, shrimp, and a couple of hard to find oysters.
All the dumplings we had were great, easily comparable to others we've enjoyed. The fennel and pork was actually dill and pork, and was chock-full of dill. The soup filled dumplings and the beef and radish dumplings were also excellent.
We also tried the fried potato, eggplant, and green pepper, which was pretty oily, but otherwise good. The minced meat with noodle in Peking sauce was also very tasty.
We will definitely be coming here again - it is just around the corner from us.
-
Baelsette
Jan 6, 2013 05:23 PM
Very happy to see this thread! We usually go to Pearl Court for a family dinner. Last time we were there the service was beyond appalling. We were ignored, finally placed our order and the waiter walked away half way through the order, we never recieved our drinks and the food was raw, no joke! We were served about 4 dishes, steamed shrimp and they were all raw, disgusting.
No apology or acknowledgment...... anyhow, glad to see that there is a new spot to frequent, thanks for the post and sorry for my rant! We will definitely give it a try! -
Going to need to hit the CHOWFIND siren on this one, food is very legit, from the Mom character making dumplings at the counter to the torn noodles in the Xinjiang spicy chicken. We also had the pickled cabbage, oyster, and lamb casserole which was a massive portion and totally delicious, and some great pan-fried chicken dumplings. They have XLBs, pork only, didn't try but lots of people were ordering them. Place was rammed and they seemed a bit overwhelmed, will probably need to add another server and cook. Prices are cheap.
Menu is big, can't wait to work my way through it. This place is 5 minutes from my house, I'm gonna put on my winter layer of fat in their spot, for sure.
›1 Reply -
Thanks for the recommendation! We tried this place the other night and it's really great! very excited to have this now in our neighbourhood as we usually go out to place in scarborough for northern style chinese food. had selection of dumplings, lamb with cumin, stir fried green beans, will be back to try the shredded potato with chili as we usually have that out in scarborough.
-
-
-
grandgourmand
Dec 24, 2012 06:20 AM
thanks for the tip. will check it out. are the dumplings homemade? do they have dan dan noodles?
