Dumpling Depot in Sunnyvale

Review №1

2023-04-30 00:35:04

High expectations for this place and I was not disappointed. The braised beef roll is exceptional. The dumplings are great, especially the lamb and chives. Spicy eggplant was good but I thought it came with tofu?So many things on the menu look good, next time Ill get fried rice, a noodle dish, salt and pepper fish, mapo tofu and green beans. Highly recommend!

Review №2

2023-10-08 21:02:10

The dishes were hit or miss. The cucumber salad and boiled pork/Napa cabbage dumplings were delicious. The eggplant was so oily, we had to tilt the plate to let the oil collect. The beef tendon soup noodles were very salty; we didn’t eat half of it. The XLB skin was much too thick and the meat inside was not seasoned. You order through an app on your phone, so there’s pretty much no service. Lastly, the ambience is not nice. The dining room doubles as a storage room.

Review №3

2023-11-07 21:26:53

Let me start by saying, this place is sketchy. You walk in, no one greets you so you’re there standing not knowing if you should seat yourself or wait to be seated. Once you realize you can sit anywhere no one comes to your table to say hi or anything. This place is dirty, everything on the table is sticky and there’s supply boxes lined up against the wall. The walls are nasty and the floor was dirty. I guess they have no storage in their back room.Once you order your food from the CR Code menu your food comes out and no one checks on you after that. If you want something you have to get up and ask.Lastly it’s unsanitary. They were cutting green beans on a table next to us which was questionable to say the least. Food prep should not be done in the dining room in front of customers. Customers walking by the table of green beans bumping into them is so unsanitary!Never going back this is place is disgusting.

Review №4

2023-04-25 03:59:41

Food is done well, I had the pork and chive dumplings were good but I preferred the pan fried vs the traditional boiled. The Beijing Noodles and green beans were enjoyable. It was a very quiet night but seems to have a decent takeout business.

Review №5

2023-02-20 23:43:58

We ordered two types of dumplings — fish and chive and pork and cabbage. The wrappers had a nice chewy texture and the dumplings were pretty good! I liked the fish and chive ones a bit better, but there are a whole host of filling options. Prices are pretty reasonable for the area. There is a 5% cash discount for orders over $15. Overall, a decent no-frills spot to get a variety of dumplings. We’ll probably come back to try some of their other offerings.

Review №6

2023-03-10 10:46:39

Solid spot for chinese food, though some dishes are definitely better than others! based on all of the dishes we tried, the dumplings were definitely our favorite—the skin is perfectly chewy, it’s a texture only achieved with fresh handmade skin. as someone who usually finds it a waste to order boiled dumplings at a restaurant, these were SO delicious and i would 100% come back to eat here just for the dumplings. the salt and pepper fish filet was also delicious; perfectly crispy and you could really taste the wok hei in the peppers and onions—only criticism is that it could have use a little more seasoning. next, the spicy wontons were solid, but just nothing too special. the lotus root salad was fine as well, good flavor and bery refreshing. our disappointment of the night was the dan dan noodles :( they came out looking SO promising but we just felt it was completely lacking in all flavor—there was no spicy/meaty/umami-ness, just a bit salty and vaguely creamy but no sesame taste.service was fast, ordering was easy—would come again for the dumplings!

Review №7

2023-12-09 23:11:51

Disappointed by the food taste. The Three Cup Chicken tastes too salty (and it is the first time in my life that I saw this dish served by a plain plate instead of a bowl). The dumplings are dry and not tasty.

Review №8

2023-10-13 15:19:20

Hole in the wall food places are very hit or miss and this place was definitely a hit. The food came out fairly quickly and the service was excellent. The food was delicious. We ordered a bunch of different dumplings and dim sum, some green beans and veggies for the table. Everything was spot on.Only qualm about the place was its cleanliness, one of the spoons on our table still had food caked on it (maybe they missed it when cleaning the table from the previous customer).

Review №9

2022-08-05 22:14:40

We went here for dinner. The order consisted of crab meat and pork soup dumpling, chicken dumpling w/ chive, chicken chow mein and boiled fish fillet in hot chilli oil.The dumplings were okay. The soup dumplings had meager quantity of soup in them. The chicken dumplings were very small in size.The chow mein was better compared to the dumplings and was well seasoned and the chicken in it tasted good.The boiled fish in chilli oil had less amount of fish and more of the english cabbage which gave the entree a sweetish taste which did not go well with the fish. Although true to its name had the fish oil taste and was heavily garnished with garlic.They do not serve rice with the entree and needs to be ordered separately.A word of caution; the owners are not well versed in english so please be patient while talking to the staff here. Ive noticed they tend to get loud when they do not understand or try to confirm something that they did not understand and it comes across as rude but Im pretty sure that is not the intention.This place is good for a quick take out or snack.Ambience: Small place with limited tables most of which are dedicated to set out take out orders. Its neat and clean though.Quantity: OkayParking: LimitedTimes visited: 1

Review №10

2022-04-09 18:34:09

First time having soup dumplings, they were really good. The pork and dill dumplings were amazing, as was the cucumber salad light and flavorful at the same time, perfect. Everything was good, so good we went back a second time.