Shop 3, 254 Swanston St, Melbourne
Located on Swanston Street between QV and Little Bourke Street, this is one of the best dumpling restaurants and cheap eats you can find in the Melbourne CBD.
Now I’ve never actually eaten anything other than dumplings at this restaurant, because really, there’s no other reason why you come here for anything other than dumplings.
Chinatown Dumpling offers a pretty large variety of dumpling dishes on the menu. There’s pork, chicken and prawn, beef, lamb, seafood, and vegetarian, and furthermore you can choose how you want them prepared, from steamed, boiled, (deep) fried, in chicken broth or in chilli oil. Talk about combinations!
Chinatown Dumplings dumpling menu
Boiled Pork Dumplings
Prices for dumplings varies from around $7.80 for 15 of the cheapest dumplings (pork), up to around $9 for 10 of the most expensive ones (seafood). A plate is usually more than enough to fill me up for a meal.
Fried Prawn and Chicken Dumplings
The fried prawn and chicken is one of my fiancee and I’s favourites, but unlike Shanghai Camy’s version, the prawn is minced up into the chicken and not whole. Here’s a warning to those who get fried dumplings though – they are hella oily. We usually drain ours before eating them and we end up with a good 1/4 of a bowl of excess oil. Other than that these dumpling are really tasty and full of flavour.
Personally I prefer this place over the coveted Shanghai Camy’s, as it’s not run by a crazy old man and Happy Birthday come blazing over the sound system every 10 minutes or so.
Taste: 8/10
Value: 8/10
