While I don't recall my mother ever saying it, received wisdom is that if you have nothing nice to…read moresay, don't say it. On the other hand, if a picture is worth a thousand words, the following five photos are spewing out a 5k monologue that ought, at least in brevity, be stood up to. This place is dedicated to the world of dumplings, and offers up a quartet of different ethnic types, plus a few random other dishes.
Anemic, flavorless, oily, chicken wings, and hey, only 40 pesos for 3 of them.
Chinese - they look pretty, they're folded beautifully. They belie the unseasoned pork and green onion filling. The mound of shaved raw cabbage with some sort of creamy dressing drizzle has more flavor. Actually, the cabbage without the dressing has more flavor. 180 pesos for 8.
The Thai style have almost no filling. What there is, does taste of ginger. There's more cabbage. Oh, condiments... they have soy sauce, and salt. 180 pesos for 8.
The Korean "spicy"... surely there will be... no, no there's not. Did I mention that all the dumplings are undercooked so that the edges where they're pinched together are basically raw pasta dough? More cabbage. 180 pesos for 8.
Perhaps the vegetable momo, which doesn't list an ethnicity, but that would typically be somewhere around Tibet or Bhutan. The filling here, of mushroom and tofu, actually has some decent flavor, but there's so little of it in relation to the whopping steamed bun - maybe two tablespoons inside a 5″ ball of dough tastelessness, that it may as well not be there. Again, more cabbage. 180 pesos for 1.
With four of us, we were still hungry, and, at least, keeping in the same general theme, I suggested we head a block north to Bao Kitchen, where I'd been, but the others hadn't. One of our number suggested that it would at least get the taste of the dumplings off our palates - I beg to differ, there was no taste to get rid of. 'nuff said about Dumpling House.