Dumplings

• Din Tai Fung is coming to Canary Wharf

  

  They already have three restaurants in central London, but Din Tai Fung are heading east for their fourth opening, to Canary Wharf. The restaurant group best known for its perfectly pleated xiao long bao will be up and running in Crossrail Place early next year.

  It's the smallest of the four (although that's relative as there will still be room for 112 diners) but this one will also have a private dining room.

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• XI home have brought their XXL dumplings to Liverpool Street

  

  They've already won a fanbase at Bang Bang Oriental Foodhall and at their first London restaurant in Covent Garden, now XI home are expanding to the City. If you haven't tried them before they are all about the dumplings. There are over 20 options on the menu along with various salads, BBQ skewers and noodle dishes.

  The real USP for them (and one that's gone viral) is their supersize xiao long bao, a soup

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• Eat Momo will be serving up Nepalese dumplings in Borough Yards

  

  It feels as though we've spent much of this year writing about new openings in and around Borough Market. And that growth in interesting new restaurants looks to be continuing with this latest opening in Borough Yards.

  Eat Momo comes from sisters Trishna and Dipa Chamling and, as you might guess from the name, is

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• London's best dumplings

  

  We've gathered together a list of London's best dumplings, from dim sum favourites to hearty Eastern European options. 

• My Neighbours The Dumplings are the latest Seed Library residency in Shoreditch

  

  Shoreditch's Seed Library, the bar from Ryan Chetiyawardana (Mr Lyan) below the One Hundred Shoreditch hotel, has been getting some pretty great residencies in. They've already had Norman's Cafe and Ruben's Reubens and now the next residency is getting ready - My Neighbours The Dumplings. 

  Already a big hit in Clapton and Victoria Park, they'll also be taking

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• Mama Chen's dumpling and noodle bar pops up at The Gantry in Stratford

  

  Having opened just in time for the upcoming Lunar New Year celebrations, Mama Chen's is a new dumpling-based popup at The Gantry in Stratford.

  It began life as a delivery service during lockdown - the Mama Chen in question is founder and chef Michelle Liu's grandmother. Since then it's gone from strength to strength popping up with supperclubs and residencies across town.

  Liu's latest endeavour is a

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• Dumpling Shack and Sichuan Fry are doubling up in London Fields

  

  3/1/23 - Updated with the new opening date

  Fans of John & Yee Li’s Dumpling Shack rejoice - they're coming to London Fields in a two-for-one deal that gets you both a Dumpling Shack and the new Sichuan Fry in one. 

  The London Fields restaurant will come in two parts. On the ground floor will be Sichuan Fry, which they're saying is the "main event" (and is

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• Din Tai Fung picks Selfridges for its beef dumpling world launch

  

  If you consider yourself to be something of a dumpling aficionado, then you're going to want to put 1 August in your diary. That's when Din Tai Fung are launching their brand new beef xiao long bao and Londoners are going to be the first to try it.

  The new beef dumplings are being revealed at the Din Tai Fung restaurant in Selfridges on Oxford Street. They'l ll be joining the classic pork and crab and pork dumplings

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• Din Tai Fung are opening a restaurant in Selfridges for all your post-shopping dumpling needs

  

  27/1/22 - updated with booking details

  We've been waiting an age for Din Tai Fung to launch their Centre Point restaurant. So long, in fact, that they're getting ready to open another restaurant in the interim -

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• Test Driving Ding Dong Dim Sum - dumplings direct to your door

  

  If you fancy a dim sum feast at home but don't fancy cooking, this new delivery option could be the answer.

• Ugly Dumpling are opening a second restaurant in Fitzrovia

  

  After success in Carnaby, Ugly Dumpling are branching out and opening a new restaurant in Fitzrovia (right next door to Lima). 

  If you're unaware of Ugly Dumpling, they are as you might expect, a dumpling restaurant. Their fillings are a mix of traditional fillings and their own creations. On the former, you'll have fillings like pork belly, aromatic duck and prawn and chive. For their

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• Yauatcha's rainbow dumplings are helping feed hungry kids

  

  Well, now - aren't these pretty? These gloriously rainbow coloured potstickers are a dish to order that'll not only brighten your day but start someone else's off well too.

  Yauatcha have brought them in for the month of June and, for every box purchase, they'll donate a whole month of breakfasts for a child via the charity Magic Breakfast.

  The seven rainbow dumplings are:

  • Red - filled with Szechuan tenderloin
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• Din Tai Fung returns to Covent Garden, delivering dumplings, noodles and more...

  

  We are seeing rather a lot of restaurants making their return to London right now. And next up are the hugely popular Din Tai Fung in Covent Garden.

  It's delivery only, of course, so you won't be able to see the artists at work creating the xiao long bao dumplings (it's so soothing - we could watch that for ages) and indeed, it doesn't seem that the soup dumplings available at

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• Dumplings' Legend reopens for business delivering xiao long bao and more

  

  Well now, this is welcome news. Given how much Chinatown suffered in a drop off in trade the weeks before lockdown, any signs of revival there are doubly appreciated.

  So we're delighted to reveal that one of our favourite hangouts in London, Dumplings' Legend, is back up and running.

  The restaurant announced yesterday that it had moved to delivery, with "Stir-fry and Xiao long Bao and our

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• Test Driving BaoziInn Borough - three floors of Chinese roast meats and dumplings

  

  BaoziInn have just opened their flagship restaurant in Borough with three floors devoted to Chinese dishes. We went along to try it out.