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Dumpling House

In my continuing quest for great dumplings, I ate at Dumpling House in Chinatown yesterday. It is renowned for being very good, and very cheap. Five dumplings cost $1. To my surprise, it also had sesame bread, which I used to eat at the Halal Chinese places in the Bay Area. I had my camera with me and took a few pictures, but I was so hungry I didn't even remember to take pictures until I had devoured a significant portion of my food. I also neglected to take a picture of the restaurant. Bad blogger, bad!

They had two kinds of sesame bread, the plain (the uneaten one on top), and a meat and vegetable filled one (filled after baking). I saw how they made it, which is basically by frying it on a huge griddle. It was quite tasty, just as good as the ones in California.

The vegetable boiled dumplings, 8 for $2.00:

Finally, the fried pork & chive dumplings. They were wonderfully crispy, and succulent on the inside. Great stuff. There are five initially, two were already eaten.

Although it is cheap and good, which seems like a magic combination, it is a small restaurant with seats for 4 or 5 people. Plus, the service is horrible, you almost have to grab someone to take your order. People regularly will come up to the counter where you order, and order ahead of you, even though you've been waiting a while. A friend of mine tells me it's just like in China, you just have to push your way in and shout your order. It kind of reminds me of how you order at Shalimar in San Francisco.