Just had lunch there today after visiting the family doctor. Thank god for forums like this on Chowhound or I may never have tried this place. I just saw this posting on Saturday and when I was walking to my doctors today I remembered this posting as I passed the place (it's literally 3-4 storefronts from my doctor's office - I should get sick more often!). The place is small and clean with one server. Someone mentioned getting another server, I don't think the space will allow it since the aisle is only big enough for one person at a time.
I ordered the Hot and Sour soup and a serving of the leek, pork and shrimp dumplings. The soup was a small but easily shareable between 2 people. It was spicy enough to clear your sinuses (which I needed), but not overpowering and sour enough to be enjoyable. I noticed thin slices of translucent pork (ham?), nice pieces of tofu and slivers of oyster mushroom. Overall quite nice, one of the better ones I've had in years.
The dumplings are hand made. There were 2 women at the counter rolling out the dough and filling them by hand. They were using the small, thin wooden sticks to roll out the small portions of dough. There was texture to the filling. Some places you get a mash of leek, pork and shrimp, so ground up that it's just one meatball of filling. Here you get pieces of shrimp and leek mixed with ground pork. Each dumpling was about 5 cm long and fat. When you bite into them there is a little bit of broth that's released and the flavour was excellent. The do sell frozen, uncooked dumplings if you wanted to take some home and cook them yourself.
The small soup was just under $4 and the dumplings were ~$6 for a dozen. I also ordered 2 more orders of dumplings for the family to try and my total bill came to $26 (pop + soup + 3 orders of dumplings). I will definitely go back again.
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