Carolynne M.
Yelp
I bought both pork soup dumplings cooked at the restaurant and bought the frozen lamb dumplings. Overall, the dumplings have the potential to be delicious, just some minor changes.
Filling: In both, there is a lot of meat filling (good!) in the dumplings, and it tastes good. However, the dumplings are a little bit too salty, and after the first couple of dumplings, it adds up. For context, I typically do not put sauce with the dumplings but will put sauce on at least one. When I had the pork soup dumplings, I did not put any on because it was getting hard to eat them without water. I've shared some of the frozen ones with people who usually put sauce on them, and they couldn't put any sauce on because of the saltiness.
For the wrap/skin: I think it's easy to overcook the skin. When I had the soup dumplings (xiao long bao) made at the restaurant, the skin seemed to sag, and it was hard to pick up the dumplings without the skin ripping off. I care more about the meat filling, but I also like having the soup in the xiao long bao. For the frozen dumpling I brought home, some of them already had the soup/juice seeping out after the first to second pour of cold water. For this, I'm not certain what would help fix it. Maybe the wrapping itself is too thin, or there might be too much meat filling, making it easy for the skin to break (I hope it's not the meat).
I would love to buy from them again, I don't have the time to make dumplings at home, and their prices are reasonable to me. If it was less salty, I would much prefer to buy their dumplings frozen over the ones sold at the grocery stores.