This place gets it done. The vegetarian options for dim sum never disappoint. What was even more impressive is that we accidentally ordered this location instead of their Hollywood location, and they called the Hollywood location and was able to fulfill our order for us to pick up there. They go above and beyond for their customers, ensuring that we get our food, get it quickly, and that everything was correct. I truly cannot be happier to be a customer here.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Jen Chon
Best sesame balls I've ever had throughout East Coast, West Coast, Hawaii, and a few Asia cities. Perfectly crispy & chewy & less of red bean and lotus filling.
Also nice outdoor seating. No indoor seating available
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Alejandro Hernandez
Great food. my favorite was shrimp wonton. Took some extra food for my wife to eat at home. Highly recommend ??
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Riley Theisen
The dim sum was great! They only have a patio area to sit and eat, but the service was fast and friendly.
Staff was really friendly and the patio seating is a nice plus. Food is wonderful and very reasonably priced.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Street Market Noodles, Soup Dumplings
Mari Meneses
I had seen an overwhelmingly positive review of this place and thus felt optimistic about trying it out.
For one, it was over a hundred dollars for everything, which would usually be fair in Westwood, but I should have known something would be wrong with the stinginess of the sauce. They charged about 2-3 dollars for sauces (soy sauce, Sriracha, chili oil, etc), so if you decide to eat here, I just recommend bringing your sauces from home. Second, we dined in, and the food was still brought out to us in to go containers despite them having seating outdoors. This was disappointing as it felt rather wasteful. Third, there were no plates they could give us to eat right there.
The actual food: My groups' order consisted of half vegetarian and half meat (shrimp and chicken). Hands down, their spring roll tasted amazing and started off the meal with high hopes, so I fully recommend that. The vegetable dumplings and vegetable bao dumlings were decent. The chicken over rice was also okay. The garlic noodles and chow mein were okay. However, the shrimp dumplings were disappointing. I would only recommend the fried shrimp dumplings. I would not recommend the rice ball dumpling as that was not good. It tasted weird. Overall, I walked away disappointed with the meal as most of it was subpar. Sure, some things didn't taste terrible, but for the portion, pricing, and flavor, I would seek out other places before coming here.
For transparency, the vegetable options were typically 7 dollars for 4 dumplings. The vegetarian options were okay. However, those in my party that ate the shrimp containing dumplings developed food poisoning. This was the only meal we had had at the point of developing symptoms. Those who had eaten the shrimp had even noted a weird feeling in their stomach, which proceeded to throwing up. If you're coming to eat here, just be careful.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
lu lu su
Fresh and delicious, highly recommended Braised Rice with Pork and Soy Sauce Wonton Fried dumplings Garlic cucumber Children love fried dumplings so much that they ate 3 at once The environment is very comfortable and it’s simply great?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: pickled cucumber 凉拌黄瓜
Jorge Fernandez
IXLB serves amazing food, and their scallion pancake is my favorite. I highly recommend this place to anyone in the area.
Farhad
There was hair in 3 pieces of dumplings (long hair so I assume from a female employee). Use hair nets and perform quality checks!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 4
Kelly Greene
Had the wonderful good fortune of having a bad experience at Northern Dumpling right down the street - which led me to trying to find another dumpling place.
All I can say is, thank you thank you universe because had I not eaten here…. it would’ve been such a loss!
I literally had just donated blood at UCLA and was starving. This place is situated conveniently in the part of Westwood Village where you can actually find parking! Which was a real bonus on a Saturday.
Walked in, and there was a charming Australian gal, who politely answered all my questions. The more we discussed all the offerings, the more hungry I felt =) I wound up over ordering – which isn’t a bad thing because everything is able to be packed up easily to go, so - a great dinner tonight as well.
The shrimp wontons were beyond amazing. I’m originally from New York and have had a lot of great Chinese food (at least American Chinese food), and this was so flavorful and juicy and generous. The cucumber salad was excellent; the hat gow was so so flavorful, and the scallion pancakes were exactly what they should be, lightly fried, crispy chewy, and so yum.
One incident occurred, which really pointed out the difference between a place that will last - and is worth shouting out - versus just ordinary:
I ordered the shrimp wontons “as is“ which comes with a fair amount of chili oil. I hadn’t really paid attention to the side note of the chili oil so after one and 1/2 of these … literally was having trouble tasting anything. They were super spicy!
I considered just suffering through it, but realized that that would pretty much ruin the rest of everything else I ordered.
I politely asked the server if I could get the second two re-done without the chili oil. Not only was she very happy to do that… But she literally gave me all four - even though I’d pretty much already eaten two. That kind of generosity of spirit, and un selfishness and lack of greed - is what keeps loyalty. And had the effect of me going back to order more food for later, just out of respect for that generosity. I also tipped generously, of course.
I honestly can’t say enough good things about this experience, except for another sidebar: as I was beginning to eat at their neat little outdoor terrace, three clearly-successful affluent Hollywood folk were skeptically waiting for their food. The gal in the group said, “Well, I guess we’ll see, this place gets a lot of hype, but it could just be the cheap prices and the location since it’s mostly college students…”
I understood the sentiment, but having already enjoyed a bit of my meal knew that she would be pleasantly surprised.
Sure enough, about five minutes later, their food arrived, and all three of them quite loudly and enthusiastically were shocked at the quality and tastiness. I kind of laughed and they looked over and I said “right?!”. And then we all went back to gorging.
Delicious and cheap. My favorite store recently. It's not scary at all with your eyes closed Recommended pork and shrimp siomai and Taiwanese bento
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Isabella Qian
Favorite dim sum in West LA! I can assure you all the raving reviews are completely justified.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Julie Loyez
Went there several times and always had a great time, the quality of service is impeccable, the people working there very friendly, and the food never disappointing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Sendhil Kolandaivel
ixlb is short for I love Xiao Long Bao. Seriously good food at very affordable prices, makes this place standout in West LA. Stop reading the reviews and go there already - you will not be disappointed :)
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Street Market Noodles
Nicolas
Holy crow! This place is VERY GOOD! The food is so delicious, FRESH, and AFFORDABLE! This place checks ALLLL the boxes. I ordered the Chicken on Rice bowl and it was absolutely delicious! What did it set me back? A paltry SIX BUCKS! WOW! That’s a good deal. I planned on taking a picture of my food for this review but it was so good that I accidentally COMPLETELY CONSUMED it before I had the chance to. I guess you’ll just have to trust me on this one, pal.
This place gets it done. The vegetarian options for dim sum never disappoint. What was even more impressive is that we accidentally ordered this location instead of their Hollywood location, and they called the Hollywood location and was able to fulfill our order for us to pick up there. They go above and beyond for their customers, ensuring that we get our food, get it quickly, and that everything was correct. I truly cannot be happier to be a customer here.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Best sesame balls I've ever had throughout East Coast, West Coast, Hawaii, and a few Asia cities.
Perfectly crispy & chewy & less of red bean and lotus filling.
Also nice outdoor seating. No indoor seating available
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Great food. my favorite was shrimp wonton. Took some extra food for my wife to eat at home. Highly recommend ??
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The dim sum was great! They only have a patio area to sit and eat, but the service was fast and friendly.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sesame Garlic Noodles, Spicy Street Market Noodles, Veggie Dumpling 4, Soup Dumplings
Staff was really friendly and the patio seating is a nice plus. Food is wonderful and very reasonably priced.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Street Market Noodles, Soup Dumplings
I had seen an overwhelmingly positive review of this place and thus felt optimistic about trying it out.
For one, it was over a hundred dollars for everything, which would usually be fair in Westwood, but I should have known something would be wrong with the stinginess of the sauce. They charged about 2-3 dollars for sauces (soy sauce, Sriracha, chili oil, etc), so if you decide to eat here, I just recommend bringing your sauces from home. Second, we dined in, and the food was still brought out to us in to go containers despite them having seating outdoors. This was disappointing as it felt rather wasteful. Third, there were no plates they could give us to eat right there.
The actual food: My groups' order consisted of half vegetarian and half meat (shrimp and chicken). Hands down, their spring roll tasted amazing and started off the meal with high hopes, so I fully recommend that. The vegetable dumplings and vegetable bao dumlings were decent. The chicken over rice was also okay. The garlic noodles and chow mein were okay. However, the shrimp dumplings were disappointing. I would only recommend the fried shrimp dumplings. I would not recommend the rice ball dumpling as that was not good. It tasted weird. Overall, I walked away disappointed with the meal as most of it was subpar. Sure, some things didn't taste terrible, but for the portion, pricing, and flavor, I would seek out other places before coming here.
For transparency, the vegetable options were typically 7 dollars for 4 dumplings. The vegetarian options were okay. However, those in my party that ate the shrimp containing dumplings developed food poisoning. This was the only meal we had had at the point of developing symptoms. Those who had eaten the shrimp had even noted a weird feeling in their stomach, which proceeded to throwing up. If you're coming to eat here, just be careful.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 3
Fresh and delicious, highly recommended
Braised Rice with Pork and Soy Sauce
Wonton
Fried dumplings
Garlic cucumber
Children love fried dumplings so much that they ate 3 at once
The environment is very comfortable and it’s simply great?
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: pickled cucumber 凉拌黄瓜
IXLB serves amazing food, and their scallion pancake is my favorite. I highly recommend this place to anyone in the area.
There was hair in 3 pieces of dumplings (long hair so I assume from a female employee). Use hair nets and perform quality checks!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 2
Service: 4
Had the wonderful good fortune of having a bad experience at Northern Dumpling right down the street -
which led me to trying to find another dumpling place.
All I can say is, thank you thank you universe because had I not eaten here…. it would’ve been such a loss!
I literally had just donated blood at UCLA and was starving. This place is situated conveniently in the part of Westwood Village where you can actually find parking! Which was a real bonus on a Saturday.
Walked in, and there was a charming Australian gal, who politely answered all my questions. The more we discussed all the offerings, the more hungry I felt =) I wound up over ordering – which isn’t a bad thing because everything is able to be packed up easily to go, so - a great dinner tonight as well.
The shrimp wontons were beyond amazing. I’m originally from New York and have had a lot of great Chinese food (at least American Chinese food), and this was so flavorful and juicy and generous. The cucumber salad was excellent; the hat gow was so so flavorful, and the scallion pancakes were exactly what they should be, lightly fried, crispy chewy, and so yum.
One incident occurred, which really pointed out the difference between a place that will last - and is worth shouting out - versus just ordinary:
I ordered the shrimp wontons “as is“ which comes with a fair amount of chili oil. I hadn’t really paid attention to the side note of the chili oil so after one and 1/2 of these …
literally was having trouble tasting anything. They were super spicy!
I considered just suffering through it, but realized that that would pretty much ruin the rest of everything else I ordered.
I politely asked the server if I could get the second two re-done without the chili oil. Not only was she very happy to do that… But she literally gave me all four - even though I’d pretty much already eaten two. That kind of generosity of spirit, and un selfishness and lack of greed - is what keeps loyalty. And had the effect of me going back to order more food for later, just out of respect for that generosity. I also tipped generously, of course.
I honestly can’t say enough good things about this experience, except for another sidebar: as I was beginning to eat at their neat little outdoor terrace, three clearly-successful affluent Hollywood folk were skeptically waiting for their food. The gal in the group said, “Well, I guess we’ll see, this place gets a lot of hype, but it could just be the cheap prices and the location since it’s mostly college students…”
I understood the sentiment, but having already enjoyed a bit of my meal knew that she would be pleasantly surprised.
Sure enough, about five minutes later, their food arrived, and all three of them quite loudly and enthusiastically were shocked at the quality and tastiness. I kind of laughed and they looked over and I said “right?!”. And then we all went back to gorging.
Can’t recommend enough. Definitely a must try.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sesame Garlic Noodles, Scallion Pancake, Shrimp & Chive Dumpling 3, Veggie Dumpling 4, Shrimp Wonton 4 with Chili Oil, Spicy Cold Cucumber, Soup Dumplings
Restaurantji Recommends
Delicious and cheap. My favorite store recently.
It's not scary at all with your eyes closed
Recommended pork and shrimp siomai and Taiwanese bento
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 5
Service: 4
Favorite dim sum in West LA! I can assure you all the raving reviews are completely justified.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Went there several times and always had a great time, the quality of service is impeccable, the people working there very friendly, and the food never disappointing!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
ixlb is short for I love Xiao Long Bao. Seriously good food at very affordable prices, makes this place standout in West LA. Stop reading the reviews and go there already - you will not be disappointed :)
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Spicy Street Market Noodles
Holy crow! This place is VERY GOOD! The food is so delicious, FRESH, and AFFORDABLE! This place checks ALLLL the boxes. I ordered the Chicken on Rice bowl and it was absolutely delicious! What did it set me back? A paltry SIX BUCKS! WOW! That’s a good deal. I planned on taking a picture of my food for this review but it was so good that I accidentally COMPLETELY CONSUMED it before I had the chance to. I guess you’ll just have to trust me on this one, pal.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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