While visiting in Canberra..... we lined up to check out this bustling restaurant. Nice layout and prompt servicing. The dumplings were good, although slightly bland and ordinary. Prices vs portion was fair. I’m guessing it’s one of the local favourites.
Bustly and full of fun, just as a dumpling house should be! Enjoyed the vegetarian buns, the prawn and pumpkin dumplings, spring rolls and vege noodles. Everything was piping hot, bang on point flavour wise and efficiently served. The wait staff did their best to get us a table as quickly as possible, but looked completely run off their feet to be honest!
This place!!! We'd just come from a facility event, it was quite late on a Sunday late. Not only did they still let us do a last minute order while they were closing up shop, the food was fantastic!!
My friend and i saw a lot of people cueing up to this place and so we thought this must be good. The place was big and the wait wasnt that long. When we finally had the chance to eat, I liked that the food serving was really big and they tasted good too. It looks like a good place to have lunch and dinner with family or a group of friends.
Quick service, good pricing. Although I don’t like to drift from my usual order. Lemon chicken was not my usual- batter fried chicken(quite chewy) drizzled with a lemon sauce(sweet) Wouldn’t recommend. The special fried rice, dumplings, soft shell crab and their homemade ice tea are a must try.
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+5
Had dinner with a fairly large group today and was pleasantly surprised!
Absolutely love the number of vegetarian food items on the menu and the ones we ordered tasted delicious too!
Ordered veg fried rice, dumplings, noodles and chow min- all fantastic!
The service is extremely quick and the staff are lovely!
FOOD 3.5
SERVICE 3.5
AMBIENCE 3.0
A good place to have a variety of food, and dumplings as well. Lots of choices and food is done well. The soup was good too and they are accomodating changes to their dishes, worth going back.
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After reading the reviews on here and knowing it was a very busy restaurant, I made a booking for dinner. When we turned up at 6.30pm there was already a long queue out the door on a Monday night.
We were seated immediately. The restaurant was packed, very busy and noisy. The five of us were seated at a table really meant to be for four people so it was a very tight squeeze. All the tables were very close to each other and we could hear the conversation very clearly from the next table.
We ordered, crispy duck pancakes (yum!) and pan fried dumplings (very good) for entree, crispy shredded beef, seafood vegetable with vermicelli hotpot (this was horrible. We expected it to be dry but it was some kind of spicy weird tasting soup), Shang Tung chicken, Singapore crispy fish fillet (nothing Singapore about this dish. We did not like it). Half the dishes we ordered were good and the other half wasn't. So I guess you got to know what to order to avoid disappointment.
If you want a nice, quiet and leisurely dinner, do not come here. We felt very rushed because they were trying to turnover the table as quick as possible with the long queue waiting outside. Service was almost non existence. When we were ordering, we asked if we ordered too much and we were told no. In fact we did order too much for the five of us (4 adults and 1 child) and there was quite a bit of food leftover. We are big eaters too.
The price was reasonable. I would come back one day maybe for lunch instead of dinner and I will probably order the dumplings and noodle dishes.
Had a work lunch here, peak of lunch time, the place was busy as, our orders were taken very quickly and our food was pretty soon after, we were a large group so expecting a bit of delay for the food to arrive, all of the food was amazing, would definitely go back.
I have been here numerous times, none of which have been extraordinary however is a good all rounder. Dumplings are nice, as is the seafood and buns however I've found all noodle dishes and stirfrys to be extremely similar, and relatively bland sauce. The vegetables are always fresh and I've found the steamed buns, fried rice and laksas to be the best thing on the menu. I love that it's BYO, chicken/beef hot plates are also extremely popular. The serving sizes are generous and the price is very reasonable. Always busy and it's hard to sometimes get a table - best to book.
I pretty like it. It has the flavour of my hometown’s food. Looks and tastes pretty nice. Usually lots of people, table is a bit small, but food is good. We had chicken noodle soup with handmade noodles, and satay chicken today. We both finished them all. Recommended.
Quick service, generous portion size and lots vegan options possible. I had a vegan hot and sour Dumplings soup at a work lunch with 12 people. All of us got our orders in 15 mins. My hot soup was a bit mild - would have liked hotter (chilli / pepper).
A no-nonsense Chinese restaurant with quick service, great food and reasonable prices. Perfect place to eat before you head out for drinks and kick on the night ahead
The CBD dumpling house has consistently offered great quality food at reasonable prices. Service is quick and although the place is often busy and loud, this only speaks to the quality of the meals and popularity of the place. We consistently eat here with our two children under five and staff are accommodating and understanding, which as parents of two young children is rarer than you would think. Thanks to CBD Dumpling House for great food and great service!
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