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Dumpling House

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118 Eldridge St., New York, NY 10002
nr. Broome St.  See Map | Subway Directions Hopstop Popup
212-625-8008 Send to Phone

Photo by Gavin Thomas

Hours

Daily, 7:30am–9:30pm

Nearby Subway Stops

B, D at Grand St.; F at Delancey St.; J, M, Z at Bowery

Prices

$0.50–$3

Payment Methods

Cash Only

Special Features

  • Breakfast
  • Classic NY
  • Lunch
  • Open Kitchens / Watch the Chef

Alcohol

  • No Alcohol

Reservations

Not Accepted

Profile

Hands down, Dumpling House is the best deal in Chinatown. Everything is cooked before your eyes and nothing costs more than three bucks. You can fight for a counter seat—there are only six—but you're better off getting in line and ordering at the takeout window. The best of the menu's twenty-three options is the chives and pork fried dumplings: With the crispy fried crust, the interior just hot enough to bring out the pork's juices, the crunch of the chives, and the price (five for $1), you may want several dollars' worth. Sesame pancakes are huge, fluffy discs nearly the size of a manhole cover, baked fresh every few minutes, then cut into wedges and stuffed with fillings reminiscent of Vietnamese bahn mi sandwiches, like tuna mixed with carrots, soy sauce, peas, and mayonnaise, or with thin, fatty slices of smoked beef. The noodles with mashed sesame sauce are best avoided. Other tasty selections include combinations of broth, noodles, and dumplings; various flavored soups; and, when you're lucky, pork fried buns or stuffed pancake with pork and Chinese vegetables. A takeout container of refreshingly cool, almost grassy soybean milk is a great top-off to a meal.

Extra

You can buy frozen packages of the same dumplings you're eating hot: Chives and pork boiled, chives and pork fried, or vegetable and pork boiled are priced at 50 for $8 or 100 for $15. Vegetable dumplings cost slightly more.

Recommended Dishes

Chives and pork fried dumplings, $1; eight vegetable boiled dumplings, $2; sesame pancake with beef, $1.50; sesame pancake with tuna fish, $1.50

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NYMAG - YOU'VE GOT WRONG ADDRESS AND SLIDESHOW

fooooooooooooooooooood from 10003 | Posted on 8/18/08

Overall Reader Rating: 7 (Recommended)
Food: 8
Service: 4
Décor: 2
Value: 10

The correct address is 118A Eldridge, just down the block on eldridge, but not on the corner as the slideshow above shows. Walked into the place pictured above, thoroughly confused, but ordered anyway - super tasty and equally as cheap (if not...Read More

so cheap it's practically free!

olive_ruth from New York | Posted on 3/22/07

Overall Reader Rating: 9 (Highly Recommended)
Food: 9
Service: 5
Décor: 2
Value: 10

I swear, it would be possible to feed an army for less than $10 at the Dumpling House. The atmosphere is slightly gross and the extensive oil dousing and frying err on the side of a heart attack... but when those...Read More