What! No noodles!
May 5th, 2007
This place is like home. The specialty is dumplings, either pork or beef, (they have started to do vego ones due to lobby group pressure, can’t be a good thing). My favorite is the dumplings in soup with chilli oil. These little buggers are fat and plump with a wonderful hand rolled doughy encasement. The filling is soft and tender minced pork that is poached briefly in some furiously steaming contraption. The soup is subtle and soothing but abruptly injected with some fiery chilli oil.
The order of things goes like this: Get directed to very worn laminex table, order dumplings, retrieve small bowl of soya sauce with chopped chilli (they never top the chilli up enough), get plastic cup of tea, wait less than one minute, eat over a dozen magnificent dumplings, pay, leave, repeat.
Dumplings in soup with chilli oil cost $5.80. Can you believe that? They do have numerous noodle dishes here but I’m so entrenched in my ways I haven’t had one.
Shanghai Dumpling Restaurant - (03) 9663 8555 - 23 Tattersalls Lane Melbourne 3000
Happy Birthday Cal!
June 7th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I love sShanghai Dumplings - I managed to eat there twice last time I was back in Melbourne.
One of the best dumpling secrets at Shanghai Dumpling is to order the Pork and Prawn Wonton Soup with no soup - it makes for possibly the cheapest prawn dumplings in Australia
June 9th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Phil - will try that next time I’m in there. Thanks for the tip.