Chinese Dumpling House

First and foremost, I want everyone to get their heads out of their asses.
People are on here complaining about the place being cheap and the service not being top notch. Well, no shit. You wouldn’t buy a bag of rocks and expect to pull out diamonds.
Most of the steamed dumplings here are about $ 6 for 15 pieces. The most noticeable item to this exception is the xiao long bao; I think you only get 8 pieces.
Yes this place does have flaws but it’s an understaffed mom and pops shop. I, personally, would’ve found it easier to have an English speaking server but these are things you have to learn to expect in the GTA.
Chinese dumpling house was renovated since the last time I came here. Still the same layout, but all the tacky chinese paper strips with things u can order are no longer on the walls. and the seats and booths have been reupholstered. The place seems brighter and feels cleaner.
At this time of the year, if you go, hope that you don’t get seating at the booths by the entrance. When people come in and out, it gets really cold.
Anyways, onto the food.
For 5 people, we ordered 8 dishes. 4 dumplings, 1 soup, 1 appetizer, and 2 entrees.
The server misread one of our dishes and served us a shrimp entrée. Thinking that he served it to the wrong table we let the server know, and he just apologized for his mistake and gave us the dish free of charge. Free shrimp is always a bonus. So for a total of 9 items, our bill came to $ 65 and change. Think about the price, you’re not going to strike gold.
Most people complain about the skin on the dumplings being too thick. Personally, I prefer the thicker skin on my dumplings. Every time I come here, I have to order the pan fried dumplings. I like it a lot for some reason.
Other things to try are of course, the xiao long bao, the beef pancake is alright and, if they still have the deal, the $ 1 chicken/​lamb skewers.
I’m not the pickiest eater, so I do enjoy coming to this place. If you’re expecting high class dumpling cuisine, this is not the place for you. You wouldn’t go to McDonald’s for a gourmet hamburger. You get what you pay for.

This place is terrible. The servers don’t care, the food is cheap, and cheaply done. I wasted my money here

Its my 2^nd time coming here this week, and so far its good enough for me to post on Unilocal.
If you love dumplings, you’ll love it… over 15 types of dumplings, it’s definitely cute and homey. The place is clean, and most most MOST of all it’s all home made and fresh and affordable !!! Even their noodles are homemade… you can taste the difference. Their dumplings are made perfect, the crust/​or dough isn’t thick, so you’re not just eating dough. Also the dumplings were not oily, which is a PLUS! definitely coming back here for Dumplings… great Dumpling Dive!

Awful avoid. Greasy and super oily and cheap stuffings that’s super overlooked

I have yet to find a Chinese Dumpling restaurant that lives up to my standards. I think that the defining factor of a good dumpling lies in the dumpling wrapper. With that said, I found the Chinese Dumpling House wrappers to be too thick. We had the Pork & Bok Choy Dumplings, steamed. The filling was good. We also ordered the Beef, Shrimp & Egg Fried Rice which was pretty standard. I liked the fact that it wasn’t too oily. Nice and light. It came served up with a side of Sweet & Sour Soup, which was a tad on the spicy side for my liking.
The service was terrible. We asked for the bill, and then after 10 minutes of waiting, we asked for it again — she had totally forgotten!
If you can’t even get your specialty dish right, you shouldn’t call yourself a dumpling house. :p

We wanted dumplings and found ourselves here.
Back in the day, I used to eat at this plaza all the time…
If you wanted cheap food to warm you up, there were so many options.
So, we came here because you can get 15 dumplings for $ 4.99!
I had the pork and bok choi steamed dumplings, and I didn’t hate them…
But, I didn’t love them either. The skins could have been thinner and I found that the filling was actually a bit bland.
However, the other hot dish we had wasn’t bad at all.
We ordered a hot pot of veggies, eggplant, and oh-​so-​bad-​for-​you-​but-​delicious pork belly. It really hit the spot on a cold night.
This place had a good selection of North Chinese dishes and it’s super cheap, but it’s not a stand-​out dumpling house.

Uh… I get unreasonable cravings for dumplings sometimes, and I really should know better than to ever come back to this place (third time here over several years) as there are other better places in Scarborough. I pretty much agree with everything that Jennifer K. mentions (we ate pretty much the same things too).
— Cash only
— Super cheap
— Super salty dumplings with thick, sticky skins
— Abrupt service from the one waitress, though I don’t think it was meant in a rude way; just deal with it!
— Very long wait for our food — other tables that came after us got their order first
— Super sticky condiment containers. Ew. Ew. Ew.
On another note, totally unrelated, the experience was made worse because of a family of three that was sitting near us. The son was like a caricature of an angry, aggressive ‘gangsta flyboy’ with dyed hair twenty-​something that you would see in bad gangster movies that was loudly shouting at his mother as she kept saying things that irritated him, while the father was blithely ignoring everything that was going on (with a bluetooth in his ear too). Sigh. Stereotype alert.
Don’t think I’m coming back.

I love the food there, they make an amazing dumpling and pop pan.
HOWEVER! The most disgusting thing happened today. Today, I saw several rats in running around the floor. I wanted to throw up immediately, but instead just paid and walked out (I’m too nice, I know). I should have shouted on the top of my lungs «RAT».
Be aware, don’t eat here.

This Chinese Dumpling House has no relation with the 2 other Chinese Dumpling House
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. Though they have the same name in English but their Chinese names are different!
Chinese Dumpling House is located in the Finch Midland Centre. Where over 80% of the business are restaurants. The price here for sure is really good! Cheap Cheap Cheap! $ 4.99 for 15 dumplings!
We ordered the Pork and Chives Dumplings and the sweet and spicy eggplant. I found the dumplings are really salty! The most salty ones I ever ate and the skin are really thick! They remind me of the ones I got from frozen sections in the Supermarket! The eggplant though is ok… average tasting!
Service is so so. but if you can speak Mandarin, you will get what you want! I was lucky my dinner mate speaks Mandarin!
I don’t think I will be back! There are so many better dumpling places in the Scarborough area!
Cash Only!