Dumpling King, Box Hill by Obelix

My friend G recently took her family to Dumpling King for Father's Day.  She reported it was "all round good dumplings"  so with such a commendation, I had to check it out.

 

The vampire-slaying Shandong chicken

Being a hectic mid week night which rendered me pooped in my pjs, I sent P out for takeaway.

On the agenda, of course was the said "all round good dumplings".  We ordered the pork and cabbage ones, pan fried.  I would agree it was well executed with the filling moist and gingery and wrapper thin and light.

We also ordered the Shan Dong chicken (see first pic).  I was fascinated by this.  It was a fried chook drenched with an intensely garlicky sauce  and garnished with specks of raw garlic.  It was vampire slaying.  Whilst I loved the flavours, it was too much of a good thing for me.  I laid awake for half the night regurgitating garlic.  Okay, TMI....

Then came the lemon chicken to cater for Kiddo.  As lemon chickens go, it was rather a disappointing one.  The batter was thick and oily.

Couldn't fault the fried rice.  But couldn't rave about it either.

The stir fried veggies with garlic were okay.

As a little snack, we ordered spring onion cakes.  Kiddo normally loves these  but she took a few bites and declared it bit too greasy for her.  So we threw the rest out.




For P and I, we had a little snack of their vegetarian bun.  It was a bit bland although I should have known that a vegetarian bun would be bland by nature.  It was filled with Chinese greens and not much else.

Verdict

We wouldn’t return.

Mid value.

Overall

Apart from the dumplings, Dumpling King was a miss for us.

Find it at

Dumpling King
572 Station Street
Box Hill Vic 3128
Phone: 9890 3719