cheap and cheerful. decent and friendly service. it satisfied my dumpling fix in Carlton. there's a decent crowd here so the people can't be wrong.
Some girlfriends and I called in here for dinner and whilst the service wasn’t particularly attentive we really enjoyed the food and the pricing was quite reasonable to boot (and a good thing too as free accessible parking was impossible to come by).
We tried the chicken pad Thai which was extremely flavoursome, the salt and pepper eggplant, Chinese broccoli and spring onion pancake which was the first dish to come out and definitely the most lacklustre of the night. We also tried several serves of dumplings my favourite of which were the chicken and prawn though the beef also proved popular. Good Asian option in the Italian precinct of Lygon and the surrounding streets
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We have walked past many time and finally on a Saturday night we decided to try Dumpling 88 and we were very happy with the outcome. Initially they were not very busy and this probably assisted the staff in providing good and attentive service although our waitress had such strong garlic breath that it could have stripped paint. After ordering, our meals arrived fairly quickly and as we ordered. The restaurant was clean and well ordered but it does look like a cheaper eats, but I feel that that is the market they are aiming to. We had chicken and prawn dumplings - simply great and then Xiao Long Bao and these too were great. The spring onion savory pancake, as recommended to us by the waiter, was a bland relatively tasteless dish. Then we had the Chicken Pho - one of the best we have had in ages, full of flavor and it had visible pieces of chicken that is often missing in other restaurants. Our Pad Thai looked great, was a very good serving size but it was a little light on flavor. We had a good meal, good service and we will definitely be back very soon to try out some of the other menu items all at a reasonable price too!
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