Union Dumpling House

So happy to have a dumpling place in the neighborhood! I ordered the spicy potato salad, cucumber salad, and lamb and cilantro dumplings. Everything was fresh and the dumplings were so soft and juicy! Including pictures - I already ate a bit on each of them. It’s cool to watch them cook as well. There’s more seating in the back and they have a patio as well. I’ll be back VERY soon!

Ventured into Union Dumpling House during their soft opening. OMG these are some of the freshest, cleanest dumplings & dishes I’ve had! You can watch them making dumplings fresh per order! Particularly loved the 🥟 Chicken & Mushroom - steamed, create your own dipping sauce with a combo of soy sauce, vinegar, & chili oil 🥟 Chive & Egg - abundantly fresh chives with fluffy egg, pan fried 🍘 Beef & vermicelli steamed buns 🌊 Seaweed salad 🍄‍🟫 Wood Ear mushrooms 🥛 Fresh chilled soy milk Because they make everything fresh and are still in their soft opening, give yourself a little extra time for the meal. It’s totally worth it!

Paid a visit recently and they were great! Was greeted warmly upon entering and we ordered for takeout at their kiosk. The wait for the food was about 15 minutes, give or take, which was not bad at all considering how good the food was once we tore into it immediately upon arriving home. My only recommendation is that if you order the crispy pork bites, to eat it right away because they did become slightly soggy during transit and were not at its crispiest once we got to them. But overall, fantastic experience trying out a new location with good food and good service. Cheers!

Heard about this new dumpling spot from a friend. As someone who travels to China Town for fresh dumplings I was happy that there is a place close to me that opened up. As you can see, the picture I posted is of the chili oil & vinegar sauce only because I DEMOLISHED the dumplings so fast I didn’t even have time to take a picture lol!! I definitely like the pan fried dumplings a lot, the steamed ones were good as well but the bit of crispiness from the pan fry gave it that extra flair. Opened only a few days ago, I’m sure they have kinks to work out like every new restaurant does. Stop by & show your support to a new local business. Love me some fresh food handmade to order!

The best dumplings I’ve had in the city. Stopped in and ordered the beef with celery and pork with shrimp dumplings. Highly recommend dining in if you are in the neighborhood.

Amazing service and food! WOW. Come here for quick delicious dumplings. We sat at the bar and saw the chefs making dumplings. The owner came and walked us through the menu herself. It was just an overall amazing experience with great dumplings

Lincoln Square is lucky to have Union Dumpling House! Truly some of the best dumplings we have ever had. We loved everything we tried and can’t wait to eat our way through the menu, plus the service was so friendly! Amazing experience in every way. We tried: - Tea Eggs: fragrant, flavorful, perfect texture - Cucumber Salad: light, crisp, refreshing! - Whole Wheat Mushroom Dumplings (boiled): savory and flavorful, the whole wheat wrappers were perfect—we were surprised and delighted to see whole wheat options on the menu! - Pork & Pickled Cabbage Dumplings (fried): juicy, perfectly crispy without being oily or going soggy, and the pickled cabbage adds so much flavor and pairs so well with the pork - Pork, Chive & Shrimp Dumplings (boiled): excellent in every way, the shrimp was cooked to perfection and had a light snap that added just the right amount of texture to these dumplings. We can’t finish this review without mentioning the chili oil! It’s delicious—spicy but easily cooled down by the vinegar, savory but not too salty.

The vibes and atmosphere were great. Service was outstanding, very hospitable and the staff were available to make recommendations. We had an infant and they arranged for a high chair as soon as we walked in. But best of all were the dumplings, which were spectacular. By far the best dumpling spot in the neighborhood. We liked the pork and chives best but they were all delicious. Would recommend!

We've been excited for the dumpling house to open. We did takeout and ordered from home and walked to pick it up'. The food was ready 10 minutes before the pick up time so that was a plus. The food was still hot when we got home. We ordered the beef and green pepper dumping and beef bao. The dumplings ate delicious and we enjoyed them. The bao was also good but didn't stand out like the dumplings did. We will be back

The good: the fillings are freshly handmade and generously portioned (you can see them making it through the window into the open kitchen). They give you good soy and vinegar to mix for your dipping sauce, as they should - how many places don't do vinegar is surprising, but Union does. The bad: when I went, both dumplings (pan fried shrimp, pork, and egg, and boiled lamb/carrot) were really undercooked. It was most noticeable in the pan fried version, where the dough was still raw enough to show my fingerprints in the pillowy part and be crunchy in the pinched part. We sent them back to be re-cooked, which they did immediately with many apologies, and when they came back out they were - still exactly the same amount of undercooked. (They were different dumplings too - we knew because they accidentally switched which dumplings were fried and which were boiled. That's fine of course, just mentioning that they took the time to make entirely new ones for us.) I might still return to see if they've worked this out, and/or stick to boiled dumplings, because I did like the filling and I tend to have a lot of time to kill in Lincoln Square between Old Town School classes.

Dumplings were very good. I thought the order was way too big for one person but they were so good I ate them all myself. Chocolate sesame buns were also very good. I'd love to see a dumpling variety plate to try a few different ones.

We've been very excited for this spot to open up and are pleased to have good quality dumplings in the area. We ordered for delivery so I can only talk about the quality once we received our food at home. I would say it's not the same as QXY but the dumplings are still high quality and very good. We ordered the triple combo, lamb and cilantro, as well as pork chives and shrimp. Wonderful flavor for all of them, the lamb was out of this world. Can't wait to visit next in person and try more combinations!

We were excited to try this restaurant in our neighborhood and maybe being excited was the mistake. The ambiance is a cross between a fast food restaurant and a cafeteria. We ordered one order of buns and one of dumplings to go. We waited in the restaurant for 20 minutes and decided to go have a drink across the street...25 minutes later we came back and our order still was not ready. We ended up having to wait 51 minutes for an order of 2 menu items! Was it worth it? No...nothing special about the food. We won't be back and recommend you think twice before ordering from Union Dumplings House!

Good dumplings. Friendly people. Great place to grab and go or eat in the back. Big space in the back.