Dumpling House (香饽饽) on Grey Street is a Chinese kitchen in Hamilton East, Hamilton, built around one thing done well: handmade dumplings. The menu leans on family recipes — several dishes arrive with what the kitchen calls mum's secret sauces, from the garlic soy dip for the crispy pan-fried dumplings to the spicy garlic sauce that tops the steamed pork and prawn dumplings. It's casual, pickup-focused eating, ordered online and collected from the shop, and the ordering site carries a 4.6 rating.
Beyond dumplings, the menu covers Chinese traditional street food — Chinese burger (roujiamo), spring onion pancake, pan-fried pork buns, spicy wontons and a large cold spicy chicken — plus a long list of rice dishes, wok-fried rice, sizzling noodle plates and big bowls of noodle soup, from wonton to gravy beef to dan dan. Japanese-style miso ramen bowls, with a choice of spiced ground pork, soy chicken or sweet fried tofu, round things out, and canned soft drinks and Bundaberg handle the drinks.
The Grey Street shop takes pickup orders daily from 11am to 9pm through its secure online ordering site, which accepts Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The menu flags gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free items, and notes where nuts appear — worth knowing in the dandan dishes.
Dumpling House (香饽饽) on Grey Street sits in Hamilton East, and it does exactly what its name promises: dumplings, made by hand, in generous numbers. The shop's online ordering page describes the food simply as Asian and Chinese cuisine, and regulars clearly agree — the store's listing carries a 4.6 rating, and its top-sellers row is dominated by dumplings, pancakes and a Chinese burger.
This is a pickup-and-takeaway operation. You order through the Dumpling House website, pay securely online, and collect from 698 Grey St. The shop takes orders from 11am until 9pm every day of the week, which makes it an easy answer for late lunches and weeknight dinners alike.
The handmade dumpling list is the heart of the menu. The top seller is the crispy pan-fried dumplings — a platter of 20 pieces served with mum's secret garlic soy dipping sauce. Alongside it sit the steamed pork and prawn dumplings, which come two ways: over noodles, or with vegetables, both dressed in mum's secret spicy garlic sauce and finished with spring onion, sesame seeds and roasted peanuts. There are also pork and cabbage dumplings served in a hot and spicy soup, described on the menu as spicy in a very nice way, topped with vegetables and spring onion.
Around the dumplings, the menu gathers a short list of Chinese traditional street food. The Chinese burger — roujiamo — is a top seller in its own right, as is the spring onion pancake with salt and pepper. Pan-fried pork buns come six to a serve, and the list is rounded out by spicy wontons with the house special chilli pepper sauce, a wonton noodle soup, and a large cold spicy chicken dressed in chilli oil.
If you want a bit of theatre with dinner, the sizzling noodle plates arrive on hotplates: spicy seafood, black pepper beef, spicy chicken fillets, braised pig's intestines, or a vegetarian version.
The rice-dish section is the longest on the menu. Braised classics lead the way — pork belly, pork ribs, beef and lamb ribs — with curry beef, spicy seafood, garlic prawn in coconut curry, sweet and sour meatballs, hot and spicy tofu, egg and tomato, yu xiang-style shredded lean pork and braised pig's intestine filling out the list. Stir-fried rice comes with chicken, prawn meat, or vegetables and egg.
Noodle soups run from wonton and chicken to gravy beef, spicy beef and pickled cabbage, pork rib and lamb rib, with dan dan noodles — flagged as containing peanuts and nuts — at the spicy end. There are also two Japanese-style ramen bowls under the Ramen & Rice Bowl heading: a signature miso ramen built on double black miso broth with spring onion oil and fried shallots, and a spicy dandan miso ramen with sesame broth, roasted peanuts and peppercorn oil. Both let you choose spiced ground pork, soy chicken or sweet fried tofu, and every ramen is served with egg, sweet corn, peas, green vegetables, spring onion and sesame seeds.
Ordering happens through Dumpling House's own online site, which takes pickup orders, supports coupon codes, and accepts Visa, Mastercard and PayPal. The menu flags gluten-free, vegetarian, sugar-free and dairy-free items, and notes that the dandan dishes contain peanuts and nuts in both the soup and the toppings — useful to know before you order.
If you're new, the well-trodden path is a 20-piece platter of crispy pan-fried dumplings to share, a spring onion pancake or Chinese burger on the side, and a rice bowl or noodle soup to round it out, washed down with a canned soft drink or a Bundaberg. Hours are simple to remember: 11am to 9pm, seven days a week, from 698 Grey St, Hamilton East.