88 DUMPLING HOUSE

The food was amazing!! We got the family deal and it was more than enough food for 2 people. We got to taste a little bit of everything 😋 will definitely come back for more!!

It just wasn’t a good experience for us. We got moved to a different table which was directly below a TV playing the music. You’ll see in the picture that one of a speaker was directly behind me about 2.5 feet from my ear. The other speaker was playing in my daughter-in-law’s ears beside me. We struggled with the QR code to order (no menus). We tried to help each other, but we couldn’t focus due to K.D Lang singing “Constant Craving.” We didn’t do any better when Ann Rimes cut loose. We started getting some partial orders to the table. Two of us had ordered Kung Pow chicken (one lunch special and one regular). The lunch version came first, but they just said Kung Pow Chicken. We ended up eating the wrong ones, because we didn’t know what everyone had ordered- it’s all done on individual phones. They finally told us the QR Codes have problems and to use the order station. They are like the self order stations at McDonalds but the size of Apple Tablets. We blow at least 15 minutes fighting the QR link before moving to that system. Then we sat through a loud version of “All By Myself” by Eric Carmen. We couldn’t talk to each other due to the prominent vocals. I don’t yuck other people’s yum. It’s not my kind of Chinese food. The lunch special Kung Pow Chicken is 4 chunks of chicken swimming in sauce- see below. The fried rice is oily. You can see it below as well- zoom in. My wife liked it. She had the Braised Beef Noodle Soup. None of us liked the Egg Drop Soup. It is very much the almost yellow/orange color and flavor found at Chinese Buffets. The fried spring rolls were wonderfully hot and crispy on the outside. They were mushy and slimy inside. The dumplings were oily on the inside. Do not try to take the left over food home if it is soup or heavily sauced. All of the containers are made from light cardboard type containers. By the time we got back to LaMarque, the boxes were falling apart. They were dumping their contents into the bag. Zoom in on the food picks to see the oil.

I’ve been to their other location so I was surprised and happy when I found out that this location is close to my house. They just opened and is currently offering 20% off your bill. We went on a Friday night. The place is smaller than the other location so we decided to just take it to go since there is hardly anyplace to sit. There were a lot of people. You place your order on the kiosk. Their food is as good as the other location. We ordered chicken fried rice, pork and cabbage dumplings, shrimp with pork potstickers (my favorite), thumb-size pan fried pork bun (daughter’s favorite), honey walnut shrimp (too much mayo), Thai milk black tea, and taro boba tea (boba was hard). They were very busy with the onslaught of orders so I’ll cut them some slack since they just opened. Their takeout bags are cute and reusable.

Best boba tea I’ve ever had! The boba itself has a great flavor that is way better than any other place around. The food was decent too—the soup dumplings were good (just desired a bit more flavor) and the rangoons were tasty, though they definitely would have been even better with a dipping sauce. Highly recommend for the drinks!

Came here for lunch and the service was great they were friendly and informative on my questions and fast the teas are amazing and the food is so good and fresh I definitely recommend this place