Dumpling Inn Restaurant

9 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  10     

This is the best chinese food in Canberra hands down. The staff here are lovely people and are very friendly. The yum cha on weekends is to die for, it is amazing. Keep up the great work!

Jan 27, 2012 

8 Recommended

Food  8      Ambience  7      Service  8      Value  9     

We eat here regularly, if you go fairly early (say 6pm) it's a quick, cheap and delicious meal. If you go at 7:30 on a friday or saturday night though, you'll be waiting a long time for your dinner.

Jan 26, 2012 

9 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  8      Service  10      Value  8     

The food is brilliant and the staff are friendly and happy (something missing from many Asian restaurants these days). You must try the Peking crispy skin duck pancakes. Addictive!

Jul 14, 2011 

4 Below Average

Food  5      Ambience  1      Service  3      Value  7     

Food 5 - average. Ambience - terrible, delapitated old building in a dodgy area.
Service - 3 poor, staff can't speak english well. Value - 7 not bad.

They also overbook, so we ended up with a table for two, with 4 of us, right next to the entrance in the middle of winter, do the math. You could barely fit the dishes on the table. Place was crowded, loud and uncomfortable, all I wanted to do was eat and leave. Not recommended - better Chinese places in ACT.

Jun 12, 2011 

2 Not Recommended

Food  4      Ambience  1      Service  1      Value  2     

We have just returned from Yum Cha at the Dumpling Inn. I have been several times before and enjoyed it but today was a real disappointment. We arrived an hour before yum cha ended and were offered a tray of cold, deep-fried left overs. Then the cart of over-steamed dim-seam and pork buns. All were very disappointing. We ordered a few fresh dishes which took about 2/4 hour to arrive. I don't understand a restaurant saying they offer yum cha until 2.30 when clearly we were not welcome at 1.30pm.
The staff were unapologetic and unattentive even though we were one of two tables dining. They were even eating the left-overs from the trolley before we had even left the restaurant. I hate to strike this one from my list, but it really was a terrible lunch.

May 29, 2011 

6.8 Recommended

Food  7      Ambience  7      Service  6      Value  7     

We didn't realise you need to order ahead for the peking duck so we instead had peking pancakes, which were very very tasty, shallot cakes, which were tiny and came without any sort of dipping sauce, chilli crispy shredded beef, which I ate way too much of it was so yum, and fried rice which was boring. The service is very average but the food is good enough that I will return.

Mar 24, 2011 

8.8 Highly Recommended

Food  9      Ambience  8      Service  9      Value  9     

My family and I go to have yum cha at Dumpling Inn every Saturday. We order two servings of the leaf wrapped sticky rice everytime. The kids just love it!
I've never had a problem with their service. The staff there are very friendly and always greet us by our names. Nor have I ever encountered having to wait one hour for our food. I find that they always have at least 2 trolls filled with steamed dumplings circulating around the restaurant.

Mar 13, 2011 

4.3 Below Average

Food  6      Ambience  5      Service  1      Value  5     

Went to "Dumpling Inn" Macquarie for yum cha. Left unimpressed and disappointed that after 1 hr still no dumplings came out on their trolley. Restaurant should be renamed to "No Dumpling Inn". Service slow, not enough staff, had to bring my own teapot to counter to have water refilled, and no dumplings for yum cha! Yet staff unapologetic. Table behind us also left in disgust after only ordering 1 dish. Would not return for yum cha in future.

Feb 06, 2011 

4.8 Average

Food  5      Ambience  5      Service  5      Value  4     

This place used to be quite good when they were a bit smaller and located in Aranda. Nowadays their food is only so-so. Generally I found the food quite oily. Dumpling was not that impresssive. We think they actually not home made. They were frozen. Their serving was quite small. Even shallot cakes were so tiny! considering they are a bit of flour and shallot. People rated this place highly are those who haven't tried proper decent Chinese dumplings I believe. So be warned!

Aug 23, 2010 

10 Highly Recommended

Food  10      Ambience  10      Service  10      Value  10     

First discovered the Dumpling (by accident!) 2 years ago, I've lost count of how many times I've been there since, a very regular visitor! The food is amazing, top class to say the least and the staff are wonderful. Highly recommend both 'normal' meals and yum cha, the more people, the more fun!

Jun 03, 2009