Review Northern Dumpling Kitchen - Richmond Hill

Delicious, hearty, comfort food here in this unassuming restaurant. Dumplings are fresh and fast made. I love their chicken dumplings and their veggie dumplings. Their other menu items are great too especially the savoury sticky rice rolls and their chewy stir fried noodles and the savoury soy milk soup. Prices are good and portions are big. The owner is very nice and will remember if you are a repeat customer. I always look forward to coming here if I'm in the area.

Got the🥟: -Steamed Vegetarian Dumplings -Steamed Leak and Pork Dumplings -Soup Filled Dumplings *** -Pan Fried Beef Dumplings *** -Pan Fried Leek & Pork Dumplings -Boiled Leek, Pork, Shrimp Dumplings The items above with the stars were my favourite. The dumplings were nice and flavourful. Pan Fried dumplings had a good sear. Service was fast. Enjoyed how they provided tea and takeout container for leftovers. If you're in the area it's a nice place to go and try. I wouldn't however go out of my way just to get dumplings here.

Take out dinner yesterday. We ordered: Steamed lamb dumplings Pan Fried beef dumplings Silver roll Shrimp and pork won ton soup Curry fried noodle Shredded pork and pickled radish noodle soup. All very yummy but the first three dishes were my fav. Definitely worth a try. Will be back to order other dishes.

They finally renovated the restaurant, it’s more comfortable and clean environment than before! Service was definitely improved, the owner (?) checked on us consistently to make sure everything goes well and the lady kindly welcomed us to be seated. -Wonton&HotSauce: average -Soup Filled Dumplings: average -Sweet&Sour Pork: average (pork was fresh and tender, but the flour batter was little hard to chew) -Leek&Pork Dumplings: great 👍 highly recommend (well balanced) -Onion pancakes: average Overall, the food quality and price was okay!

Ordered pickled cabbage with pork dumplings and bbq lamb. Flavours are good. If you want the dumplings fried (with the bottom crispy) it’s an extra $2 but really worth it. The lamb was very tender. The Chinese bbq style is with a dry rub. Ordered via Uber so didn’t want to try the noodle dishes. But I recall from eating in pre COVID, noodles are not the specialty of this place. So I’d stay clear of them.

Straight fire food and service. Best food experience I've had in a long time. I've come here a couple times over the years and this time it has solidified itself. That lady server is GOATed. The service was also mad fast, ordered, got the food in 10, and everything came to our table back to back. Multiple years on end it has always been great food. Always solid, I miss the Garlic Pork though, that used to be one of my favourite meat dishes ever. This time I had the Leek Dumplings, the Cabbage Dumplings, the Soup Dumplings, the Spicy Fish Boil, the Cumin Lamb, and the Pea Shoots. They were all phenomenal. I can't believe this restaurant flexes towards so many regions of cuisine and variety and they're all good. Nothing like as absolutely striking as that Garlic Pork, but all the food was really good. Not too salty, not too oily, everything was very well balanced. The kind of food you can eat over and over again without feeling bad. The absolutely thing that truly makes this one of my only real 5 star reviews is that service. Today is a Chinese Festival where you're supposed to eat this Glutinous rice dumpling and we asked jokingly and they also laughed at first they were like oh we don't make that. But then, the main server lady said her boss had given everyone there some of those rice dumpling home. She said she had already had them at home and offered to serve us them instead, which we graciously accepted.

Dumplings were good, ordered the soup and the pan fried with noodles and lamb skewers. Prices are fair. Does not take visa, debit and cash only. They give you a pot of tea with your meal. Service was a bit slow even though the restaurant was empty but overall would recommend for dumplings and a quiet night. Casual dining and lowkey.

This restaurant has a good lunch menu which comes with generous portion of hot and sour soup!

This was a substandard lunch. :/ I really don't know what the hype is. <br/><br/>The Dan Dan Spicy Noodle was okay. I liked the taste of the semi spicy soup base. It had noodles in a spicy soup base with peanuts scattered on top. My mom didn’t like the lukewarm soup broth and neither did I. Even for me, it felt like the soup wasn’t hot enough.

I spent $190 on an order to feed 12 adults and got enough food for maybe half of them and at beat it was average. The serving size is pathetic and the customer service left a lot to be desired. With a bevy of other Chinese food options nearby, I’d suggest anywhere else.

Most authentic Northern Chinese dish. We always order the soup filled dumpling, best in GTA so far. I am also from northern part of China and this is as close as it get without traveling to China

With my lunch meeting free Tuesday, my colleagues and I were free to venture out for lunch. Unfortunately, I couldn't decide on a new restaurant close by and not too pricy. As a safe choice, we decided on going to Northern Dumpling restaurant at Time Square plaza on Hwy 7. If you couldn't tell, northern parts of China are very popular with dumpling style dishes.  I have been here many times and the experiences have mostly been positive.<br/><br/>Regarding the food, I think it's pretty good. Safe choices are any of the dumpling style dishes. On this visit, we didn't get the fried shrimps (which you can eat whole). The soup dumplings are amazing and can't find a better place than this for it.

Don't bother with this place go right next door to Richmond court for much better food. Why waste your time at this place with terrible service and subpar food

I only like the dumplings. This is coming from a picky eater. I tried several items on the menu and was disapointed a bit. But for the price cant complain

This place has one of the most authentic northern dishes and dumplings! I am from Northern part of China and this place tastes like home. I like their lamb dumplings, pork pot stickers and they have one of the best sweet and sour soup! Will definitely come back here on a regular basis!

This post contains mostly images of our dinner at Northern Dumpling Kitchen. We ate 404. Hot and Sour Soup & Noodle $5.50; 605. Diced Chicken with Shrimp $8.99; 725. Moo Sho Pork $7.99; 108. Steamed Lamb Dumplings $6.99; 124. Wraps (8) $2.99; 135. Leek, Pork & Shrimp Dumplings $5.99; 706. Seafood with Sizzling Rice $11.99;

Great mom & pop type restaurant serving up Northern Chinese cuisine. One of my favourite dumpling places. Nice selection of various dumplings: steamed, boiled or pan fried. Their soup filled dumplings (Xiao Long Bai) is really good. The wrap they use is nice & thin, and there is ample soup within. Eat it with a bit of ginger & vinegar. Be careful when you bite into it as the hot soup inside will squirt out. Best to bite a little hole in the wrap & suck out the soup before eating the dumpling. We usually just have the dumplings but I recall once I had the Shanghai noodles & that was good too. It's a bit oily but you can ask that they use less oil.<br/>This place is cash only. I didn't realize the first time I came here.<br/>Will keep going back.

We went under the impression of the relatively high review rating but was dissappointed by it. There's nothing special about the dumplings and the dumpling skin was rather thick. We ordered bean curd appetizer and it was worst than most ones I have eaten. It's funny how their menu has all kinds of chinese dishes from different regions, and it makes me wonder what their specialty really is. I've been to better northern/dumpling restaurants and would not pick this one again.

In my opinion, the best dumplings north of Steeles. Must try pan fried dumplings and boiled dumplings. Prices are very reasonable as well given the quality. Recommended.<br/><br/>RM

Great dumpling but. They made very good dumplings, great price too. I've tried quite a few different kinds of dumplings, fried/steam/boil and they all are great but that's it, other things on the menu are not as good compare to other Shanghai/Beijing restaurants.

You Have To Love Multiculturalism: Otherwise We Would Be Missing Out. E: At first I meant to eat three doors down at Richmond Court. I have been a customer for 15 years. Then I thought about Ding Tai Fung, which is another fine standby. Then I considered Chinese Dumpling House, across the road, which a former friend and I discovered and liked, but to which I have not returned since. She had revisited with her daughter and reminded me that the prices were cheap there. Then I remembered two restaurants I had meant to visit for the first time as well. In the end, it was a first visit to a restaurant that won the day, but not the aforementioned two. Having walked by Northern Dumpling Kitchen, likely en route to Richmond Court, I had wondered about them and finally walked in for dinner. The dinner was a success. The food was good.<br/>The restaurant’s menu offers a mixture of northern Chinese wheat-based items, dim sum and meat dishes, as well as staples like Shanghai Noodles and a Szechuan section with its assortment of spicy meals. The menu is not too different from what one would find at Richmond Court, Dumpling House or any Asian Legend location.<br/>The food was scrumptious. The Small Hot And Sour (#301) was $3.99 and available as Large for $6.99. Hot and sour soup is also available with noodles under the Noodle section of the menu. The soup was almost as good as Richmond Court’s and quite good. The slight difference was that it was a little salty and did not contain any shrimp. Nonetheless, it was very well done and, as is usual with these things, enough for three people. The large size must be enough for five people. The Green Onion Pancake is another perennial favourite of mine. It was $2.59 (#122) and better than any I had before. It was probably on par or even better than the same at 369 Shanghai Dim Sum. Next up was the Xiaolongbao or the soup filled dumpling, which is $5.99 for 6 (#118). These were warm, full of meat, juicy and tasty and wrapped in a thin layer of fragrant skin. Could it be any better? Yes, I added the accompanying ginger on top and then it could not be any better. This was another winner. Was it as good as Ding Tai Fung’s or Asian Legend’s? Probably.<br/>Finally, and not one of their stated specialties, came the Shanghai Style Fried Noodle (#415) for $7.50. The noodles were cooked right and the shrimp was well done, but the vegetables were semi-raw resulting in a chewy mismatch in my mouth. It was all gobbled up, but still the vegetables should clearly have been cooked more. The next morning my throat was slightly scratchy for an hour or so making me suspect that the noodles had suffered an MSG overload. It felt like that. That would be a negative mark on the restaurant’s tasty fare.<br/>The menu is divided into sections including Cold platter, Soup, Stewed, Noodles, Fried Rice, Vegetable and Dessert. There are 14 lunch specials listed for $6.50 each and made available from 11:00 to 3:00.<br/>Right now I am telling myself to hell with this computer or the plan to begin watching my DVD of an old favourite, called They Live, which I have managed to get my hands on and instead drive to Northern Dumpling Kitchen for a basket of soup dumplings!!<br/>-<br/>A: Northern Dumpling Kitchen is a smaller restaurant with minimal decoration. There are several pendants and tassels on the wall and a citation for the best Pork With Garlic Sauce dish as voted last year by a group of critics in Toronto. Not sure it would have been a choice, but it caught my eye mid-meal anyway. There are renovations going on somewhat obscuring the restaurant and the view, but that should be completed soon. Times Square, where the restaurant is located, has no charms to soothe the visual dreams of a person anyway. <br/>-<br/>T: Parking is difficult to find in this plaza during peak dinner time or weekends, but otherwise one will not have too much difficulty there. The plaza offers underground parking as well.<br/>Is it just because I do not drink tea that it is always offered freely and immediately? The tea arrived right away and was followed by the usual “may I get cold water” The water arrived right away. Once the order was placed the dishes arrived in short order as well and not all simultaneously. That is always a good thing as the food does not become cold sitting on the table. The bill arrived immediately upon request as well. The restaurant is small and the two waitresses meet the requirements.<br/>-<br/>S: When she brought the menu the younger waitress was friendly. A dinner companion (see photograph) was sitting on the table reading the menu and due to the staff’s friendliness was not ordered off the table or out of the restaurant. That was a relief. The other waitress was also on the ball. Just do not expect a quality check, water refills or a “you are welcome” in response to “thank-you.” It just is not that type of a place. <br/>It is a cash-only restaurant.<br/>The clientele was all Chinese, which at first glance makes sense. Then one thinks about it and wonders why everyone else would not be more adventurous and explore more? It is one of the advantages of a multicultural Canada that one can be treated to kabobs two weeks earlier, have Korean for lunch the week after, enjoy a different Korean plate the day before and discover a new Chinese restaurant for dinner the night after. We might have a conservative government full of, and voted by, people still living in the 8th century, but where is everybody else? Missing out, one could say. Knowing this the restaurant’s whiteboard on the wall was written exclusively in Chinese

Best Soup Filled Dumplings. Pork with garlic, soup filled dumplings, steamed lamb dumplings, pork and cabbage pan fried dumplings and wonton in chili oil<br/><br/>order all that for 3-4 and your golden

Good stuff!. It's not a pretty restaurant, but the food is tasty and at a fair price. The dumplings are juicy and fresh, and are well balanced between meat and wrapper skin. Some of my other favourite dishes include spicy-salty fried fish and long green beans. If you feel like dessert, be sure to try the fried banana which is the kind that comes with an ice bath to harden the honey syrup coating.

Go with your Asian friend. Local favourite with the Asians on weekends and business suits drop in for a quick lunch weekdays. We paid $40 for 7 adults (and a two year old) to eat for brunch! Definitely have to try the pan fried dumplings and steamed pork and mushroom dumplings. Veggie dishes are garlic-y and pair well with your dumplings and tea. The deep fried green onion pancakes are a favourite.

Great dumplings. We tried to pan fried pork and leek dumplings and we loved them. The dumplings were very juicy and tasty! We also order beef noodle soup and stir-fry pork intestine (not sure of the exact name) on the side. The intestine was a bit spicy but seasoned really well. Will definitely order the dumplings and intestine again! <br/><br/>The beef noodle soup was a different story though... The beef was tender and tasty, but the soup base was quite bland. The worst part was that the noodles weren't handmade! When I go to a northern chinese cuisine place, I expect the noodles to be handmade! It was my fault for not doublechecking before ordering, but the result was quite disappointing...

The whole menu was of incredible value. The portions were just right, and for a majority of the dishes, the flavours were in the right place! Their dumplings are incredible, and so spot on. I would totally hit it up again, but with so many Chinese restaurants in this area, I should hold it off and set Northern Dumpling Kitchen's dumplings as the benchmark!

When either 啊哥 and I are craving dumplings, this is where we go. If my family is indecisive of where to eat, this is where we end up. If we are disappointed in another restaurant and feel the future of GTA's food has no hope, we go here for reassurance.

The Northern Dumpling Kitchen, home of the amazing chicken potstickers. Aren't they beautiful? The potstickers were just as tasty as all the other times. I'm starting to drool just thinking about it. The xiao long bao (aka XLB or soup dumplings) are also

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