SF Weekly highlights a nice review of one of the Richmond District’s best kept secrets: The Shanghai Dumpling King restaurant at 3319 Balboa Street. When I was introduced to it several months ago by my friends Gene and Chad, they jokingly hissed “Don’t tell anyone about this place!”.
The fun, KQED food review show “Check, Please!” provided the original, thorough writeup after reviewer Lysley ate there on Christmas Day in 2008. He just couldn’t get enough of the restaurant’s juicy dumplings and tasty buns:
“While soup dumplings are the superstar on the menu, the others are excellent as well. They offer about a dozen different kinds, and my favorites are the pork and crabmeat, the pork and chive, and the vegetable. All are steamed, and arrive in their own bamboo steamers. I also love the pan-fried pork buns, which are like little pork buns you might find at a fast food dim sum joint along Clement Street, but much better. The quality of the pork filling and the bun itself surpass those by far. For new visitors to Shanghai Dumpling King, I always recommend making an entire meal out of the dumplings. Ranging from five to eight dollars each, they’re an amazing deal.”
Read the full “Check, Please!” review here
They’re also extremely popular on Yelp with 356 reviews and averaging 3.5/5 stars.
Be sure to check out the episode of “Check, Please!” below that includes the review of Shanghai Dumping. It starts at the 1:20 mark.
Sarah B.
Still prefer my wife’s dumplings, way better, and I know what’s in there… She is the real “Queen of the Dumplings!”
Oh Woflgang, you’re SUCH a romantic! LOL
Sarah B.