Din Ding Dumpling House Fremont

Great food at a good price, the restaurant also has a nice atmosphere to it. It can get pretty busy during dinner, but nothing too crazy. I recommend their Fried Rice and String Bean dishes. Although the trophy goes to the Chocolate Xiao Long Bao! Highly recommend it!

Food is not great. Go to the one in union city it’s better. Dumplings tasted raw and looks like a nice place but is dirty.

Service is pathetic. They got our order wrong and forced us to take it. Refused to rectify. And the food wasn’t even good. Lacked flavour and options for vegetarians

Great food and great service! We ordered the shrimp and pork dumplings and the pumpkin shrimp and pork dumplings along with chicken chowmein bok choy and sweet and sour chicken. The bok choy was delicious fresh and just crispy enough. The fried rice tastes super fresh and fluffy. It also tasted very fresh made. The noodles for the chow mein wow! I had to look up the website for this place and realized the noodles are made in house. DELICIOUS! The only complaint I would have is that the noodles were hard to serve as they are very very long and it wasn’t until we saw the neighboring table that we realized were supposed to have been given scissors to be able to cut and serve. Other than that the food and service were great. Definitely worth the price.

fast and friendly service, delicious food, and the honey nut shrimp stole my heart.

Great restaurant. All the dishes are so good, especially the honey walnut shrimp, the noodle dishes, scallop fried rice, pork XLB and chicken corn shui mai. Portions are big and service is fast. Prices are super fair. The waitlist move super fast. I love this place.

Very nice people would come here agine

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Food 3.7/5
Cucumber Salad 3/5
This was average, the sizes of the cucumbers were a tad larger than I was used to.

Pork & Crab Xiao Long Bao 4/5
The Xiao Long Bao has plenty of soup. I would say they have even more soup in them than Din Tai Fung's Xiao Long Bao. You'll really want to grab a spoon for these. By the time they are on the table, they aren't super hot, so it's fairly safe to take a bite into them and sip the soup without your tongue being on fire.

Fish Dumplings 3.5/5
The fish dumplings were ok. I think the skin of the dumplings are fairly thick on these making it a tad difficult to taste the fish inside. Overall, not bad though.

Qishan Minced Meat Noodle 3/5
These are served on an average plate with a pair of scissors. The noodles are long, so when you take some noodles to transfer to your plate, you'll want to cut the noodles. It was stated on the mention to be hot & spicy, but to be honest, it's super mild at best. These noodles are served cold, and didn't have as much flavor as I had hoped.

Strawberry Chocolate Xiao Long Bao (Dessert) 5/5
These were great and remind me of the ones at Din Tai Fung. The skin for these are a tad thinner than the Din Tai Fung ones, so it's easier to take a smaller bite without the chocolate gushing out. My date really enjoyed these, and I thought they were really good as well.

Service 1/5
My date and I arrived a few minutes before the restaurant opened and the tablet at the front to add yourself to a queue was powered off. A waiter immediately greeted us and were told to choose anywhere to sit. We chose a 4 person table so that we would have room for the dishes. Every table has a small dish with some food on it along with a menu and pencil you can mark your orders on. Soon after we started filling it out, we were immediately asked to move to a smaller table. They should not tell their guests to choose anywhere to sit if they don't actually want you to sit anywhere.

The dishes all came out pretty fast, but they didn't really offset the timing for their main dishes vs their dessert dishes. Typically, dessert dishes should be served after people are done eating their main dishes, but that wasn't the case here. Once the last dish was served, they immediately put the check on the table, which symbolizes that they want to you finish fast and leave.

While we were still eating, they came by and put a bag take out containers on the table. It was clear the to hurry up and clear out the table (This was around the 40 minute mark for us. Once we finished up and started to pay, they came by and put only some of our left overs into the box, and left. We put the rest of the left overs in the other containers ourselves. They come by to take the bill. Then another person comes by and urges us to leave before returning our check, because there are people waiting to be seated. We told them, we are still waiting for our check to be returned with our cards to sign.

We were only there for a little over an hour and found the overall service to be poor. Eating while being rushed the whole time is not good, and restaurants that are known to get busy should already plan for this.

Ambience and Design 3.5/5
This looks like a fairly new place and has an overall nice looking vibe. There are plenty of 2-4 person tables throughout the restaurant. The place has 2 entrances, one for people to queue up to dine in and another for take out orders.

I think the 2 person tables should be larger or their steamer baskets should be smaller. Our 1 steamer basket took up almost the entire table, and each time they brought out another dish it was like playing a game of Tetris to get it to fit on the table. Restaurants should take their dish sizes into account when selecting tables. This is not their first

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 4

Service: 1

Recommended dishes: Pork and Crab Xiaolongbao

Authentic Shanghainese food.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Shrimp & Pork Pot Sticker

Used to like them, especially the vegetable bun. It was delicious and dyed with natural spinach juice. Now it’s just food pigment and looks gross. I hope they know what they are doing.

Plus the price are insanely expensive now.

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4

Good food good service. Clean reastaurant

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 4

Service: 5

We had the sweet and sour chicken, veg noodles, and pork xlb. We enjoyed the noodles dish.

Food was good, but there was a piece of 1/2 inch thin metal in one of our dishes - Zhajiang noodle. Our 3 year old almost ate that. The waiter let us replace the dish and got yelled at by a lady who I presume is the manager. Not cool.... No staff or manager even attempted to applogize. Eat here at your own risk.

Atmosphere: 3

Food: 2

Service: 1

It was a great experience, good food, good service overall.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Vegetarian options weren’t so great. I ordered the fried tofu, the vegetable bun and vegetable dumplings. They are lacking in flavor. Suggestion for chefs: try adding in either beyond meat or impossible meat in the food (plant based meat)

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 4