Super Juicy Dumpling [Brea, CA]

This is the third time we've been here. We've found that most servers don't engage with you. It's likely that they struggle to describe things in English. Every time we visit, we like to try a different dishes. We brought our visiting friends on the evening of March 14. When Yuki, our waitress, took our order, she explained how to place it and checked to see if we had any food allergies. We ordered seafood udon, beef with broccoli, fried rice, and XLB. Overall, the food tastes good, but XLB isn't as juicy as DTF's. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant dinner experience all around.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Teapot with lots of tea stains, sesame noodle has a weird smell and it mix with those cheap spicy chili oil, that stays in the throat never gets away. The ribs have no taste in between the bones, they cook without fully pre salted them. The shiitakes must be stay in the water forever, so the dish has no mushroom flavor at all.

The most important is the dumplings, the crab is not fresh, my friend is having allergies to that right away after taking only one dumpling.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 4

The Chinese people here directly come from china. Food is whatever

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 1

Service: 1

The majority of the wait staff here lack proper training. Other than following instructions, many of them are unable to speak proper English. I've been there twice, and each time they made mistakes on my bills. The only Japanese waitress graciously informed us about the void transaction on the receipts for the first time. The other time, without saying anything, the receipts were simply thrown violently upon our table. There are several better Asian restaurants in the vicinity. Such harsh treatment is not something we have to put up with here.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 3

Service: 1

Super delicious

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Organize your takeout better. The workflow is in conflict.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Tried super juicy dumpling for the first time local Brea Chinese restaurant located in Home Depot Plaza
Atmosphere is traditional, Chinese restaurant decoration a bit dated
Service is very good
We got the steam pork bun and pan fried bun. Both are very juicy. Shrimp fried rice is very large portion with big pieces of shrimp. Sweet-and-sour soup is very authentic Chinese. We also got the beef roll, which tends to be slightly sweet with sweet bean past sauce.
Average dish is $16-$19
definitely a local Chinese restaurant I would often visit 5/5 stars
Good alternative to budget friendly ding tai fung style food like the xaio long bao

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 5

Service: 4

Pretty solid dumpling spot in Brea! The noodles were really good. They had that chewiness and texture that was quite different than other Chinese noodle dishes. I really dug the chewiness! The soup is as also very flavorful like a tomato base or something. The Shanghai pan fried dumplings were amazing. Their bottoms were toasted with whole sesame seeds which gave them a very unique crunch. The aroma was so mouth watering and the inside was juicy. So good. There were recommendations to get the big crab dumpling and while it was super juicy and jiggly (check out the video), it didn’t blow us away and the fact that it took almost 40 minutes to come out after we ordered it really killed the vibe. We were already done with our other food for 20+ minutes before the big crab dumpling came out and by then we were no longer in the zone for excitement to eat. It seemed like there were a lot of orders for the crab dumpling as other patrons were also waiting 40+ minutes. If they get that sorted out it will be a plus plus. Overall it’s probably the best pan fried dumplings I’ve had in a long time. I’d return for those and the noodles! The staff was attentive, almost too attentive that they hover.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 4

Recommended dishes: Shanghai Pan Fried Bun

Loved everything

Get Again:
Shanghai Pan Fried Bun
Vegetarian Bun
Vegetarian Small Dumplings
Both Juicy Pork Sweet and Non-Sweet Dumplings
Amazing Dumpling, could eat here everyday

Tried:
Juicy Pork and Shrimp Dumplings

Try Next time:
Juicy Pork and Crab Dumplings
Juicy Beef Dumpling
Juicy Pork and Crab Bun

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Not busy. We were seated. Then, ignored. No service for about 15 minutes. We left for better service and better food.

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 1

Service: 1

Was excited to try this place. It wasnt fresh like I was hoping. The dining area was extremely hot to the point it's unbearable.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 3

Service: 3

Came here to celebrate my birthday with a large group of family and they were so accommodating and attentive to our large group of 14. Everything was delicious to order and to put the cherry on top, they don't automatically add gratuity for our big group. I appreciate that so much eventhough we did end up leaving them a nice tip :) Love this place! We ended our meal with chocolate dumplings that hit the spot!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shanghai Pan Fried Bun, Wonton with Spicy Oil, Sweet Pork Dumplings, Pork Dumpling

Good, but not great like it used to be. The pork and shrimp juicy dumplings, while still tasty, had no juice in them. The Wuxie style spare ribs were good, but not fall-off-the-bone like they used to be, and the sauce was bright red, rather than the brownish-red sauce that they used to use. The hot and sour soup was full of goodies and quite tasty, but had very little sour flavor to it. I actually preferred it this way, but the rest of my party was disappointed. The eggplant with pork was very good and cooked well. In the past, we would arrive at 5:30 PM on the dot when they opened in order to get a table. Today, the place was never more than half full. My advice to the management: get your old chef back, or this place is doomed.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

Wasn't very impressed ,especially with the fried rice. The rice was under cooked with no flavor. Probably won't return to this place

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 3

Service: 4

Super small portions

Atmosphere: 2

Food: 2

Service: 2