Popular late-night spot with a lengthy menu including dumplings & Taiwanese & Sichuan specialties.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 695 Washington St, Boston, MA 02111
Phone: (617) 338-8859
Website: http://www.dumplingcafeboston.com/
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Reviews
Easy to get in on a Thursday night, and food came quick. I was hungry enough to order enough food to feed 4, but I struggled to eat a single portion’s worth. All the items we got just seemed a little off.
My stirfry rice cake was too soft, and had a weird salty aftertaste. The XLB were big and generous, but something about the flavor made it seem too overwhelming to gulp down multiple in a row. The fried dumplings were yummy on th first bite, but also seemed too much afterwards. My husband’s Taiwanese noodle soup was not the beef kind as expected, but a bland version of ramen with noodles that lacked the homemade texture.
Maybe it was an off night (for me as well as them) but I left disappointed (and with alot less in my wallet than I expected).
I got takeout from here because they were having a buy one get one free deal on almost everything on the menu and scally and pancakes have gotten so expensive it’s mind-blowing. The ingredients for them cost like a cent and people are charging $12 for one order it’s wild!!!!!!
Anyway we used to make scallion pancakes at home so I know very well the most important part of scallion pancakes is the flakiness. Well. The scallion pancakes they served had zero flakiness whatsoever. I do not think they laminated the dough at all (created a bunch of layers similar to a croissant) and they just made the dough and spread it out and fried it. It was one solid piece with legitimately not one single flake.
The flavor of the dough was not bad and I also got the scallion beef sandwich which I thought was tasty aside from the scallion part.
They were very nice to us when we went in to pick up the food.
I think a 3.5 is pretty generous but because the stuff was so nice and the general flavors were good I’ll just take off one star for making the worst scallion pancakes I’ve ever had.
Seriously you could buy frozen ones from the grocery store and they would be perfect and flaky and delicious, I just hate deep frying in my house.
Food is always good, service has improved and they are alert to help, food comes out quick. Try the eggplant- unusual thick sauce a little spice, very smooth. Dumplings and scallion pancakes are great and the atmosphere is just good not fancy-nice view of washington st.. Chopsticks a little chunky. Seafood seems authentic.I’ll be back.
Tried the Mapo Tofu and I was kind of blown away by how good it is. Didn’t expect the food to hit quite like that here. But it’s one of the better versions I have had in a while. Definitely need to go back to test the consistency and see what’s up with the tipping issue so many recent reviews keep mentioning.