Nanjing Dumpling 小金陵 — Restaurant in Sydney

Nanjing Dumpling, Lee's Dumpling and Najing Gourmet are all owned and operated by the same owner/group, so expect mediocre food at all 3 locations. Same exact menu, same offerings, same crappy food.

Nanjing duck: extremely salty with no other flavours and weirdly gamey/stinky. I get that Nanjing duck is supposed to be mostly salty, hence its Chinese name, but this one was overly salted without any other redeeming flavours or aromatics. It was also a bit dry and anaemic, meaning that it was probably marinated for too long, and was already a cheap quality duck to begin with.

Mouth watering chicken: this was actually not terrible, just not the best I've had by far. There's way too much chilli oil which smothers any other flavour of the dish, and you cannot taste the peanut/nut sauce that's supposed to underline the dish.

Pork wonton soup with chilli: horrible. The soup was absolutely insipid, to the point where I'm convinced it's just the water that the dumplings were boiled in. The wontons actually had some potential, if they remember to season the filling. Seriously, if you never told me there was pork inside I wouldn't have known, since all I can taste is the wrapper. Adding soy sauce to the soup makes it palatable, but it doesn't change the fact that the wontons themselves had no flavour.

Xiaolongbao: probably the best dish. There's a decent amount of soup inside each XLB and the taste is pretty decent. The only downside is that there's too much meat inside each XLB, so when you bite a small hole to drain the soup, the meatball inside just tears straight through the wrapper and falls out. It's also weirdly sweet, more like a pan fried bao than a xiaolongbao.

Honestly the biggest disappointment is seeing the amount of Chinese clientele inside. If they're Chinese, they probably know what they're doing, right? Wrong. I have a feeling that they don't come here for the quality of the food, but rather the memories that the food brings back. School cafeterias in China are rarely high quality, and being able to grab a relatively cheap (10% weekend surchage even with cash payments) with your friends would be a throwback of their high school years. Except cafeterias in China are a lot better than the food here.

Also 10% weekend surcharge at a Chinese restaurant...

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It’s lunchtime, you’re in the city and you’re craving dumplings!! But not the frozen ones from the Asian grocer - you want FRESH, HANDMADE dumplings with all the experience and love of an Asian mum. ✨✨

I visited @nanjingdumpling in Haymarket last week and their dumplings were AWESOME! FRESH and JUICY - genuinely all you can want from a dumpling 🥰🥰 They also serve unique Nanjing dishes that you wouldn’t find in your normal walk in chinese restaurant.

WE ORDERED: 🥟 Panfried Beef Dumplings - these were the UNDERDOGS I was not expecting! I always feel like panfried dumplings are underwhelming and need to be revived with chilli and soy sauce. BUT THESE DUMPLINGS!! ✨🤯 They were crispy and juicy and I didn’t even need sauce at all. SO good! (recc) 🥟 XLB and Pork&Prawn dumplings (steamed) - delicious classics 🥟 Tender Spicy Chicken - super mala and delicious! It’s a cold chicken dish and packed with flavour, your mouth WILL go numb! (recc) 🥟Sweet and Sour Pork Ribs with Noodles - very worth the price, iconic sweet and sour flavour and the meat was TENDER! super filling and worth it for lunch!

Overall, I LOVED my visit to @nanjingdumpling! I will defs go back to grab the panfried dumplings again I am still mind blown 🤯 Thank you so much to the staff at Nanjing Dumpling for hosting me so well and @chels_eatravel and @vivifean for organising 🥰🥰

📍Nanjing Dumpling Haymarket, Sydney

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Nanjing dumpling Honestly they serve one of the BEST and JUICIEST dumplings in Sydney!! Such a warm and comforting dish under this chilly and freezing Sydney weather!

What we ordered: Boiled tender chicken in special soy sauce Steamed prawn and pork dumplings Steamed pork Xiaolongbao Sweet and sour pork spare ribs noodles Sweet soy milk Sticky rice balls in sweet rice wine

My favourite is the sweet and sour pork spare ribs noodles! Iykyk, I have shared this place before and mentioned this is my fav dish from them AHAHA (the previous post is still up)! Honestly don’t know what magic they’ve put into but the sauce and noodles🍜 pair with each other so well! Super moist and succulent as u mix them together🐖. Okay, back to the main character - XLBs 🥟 are soooo juicy (just look at the reels!!) This steamed Chinese dumplings are filled with minced pork and a rich, gelatinized meat soup🍲 . The skins are super thin, just enough to seal the fillings inside, making sure you can have a mouthful of meaty dumplings! First time trying the prawn🍤 and pork dumplings and I LOVED IT! I thought they would use prawns cut in small pieces but instead they used a huge chuck of prawns cut! Such a satisfying bite🙊 Especially love their sweet soy milk but would prefer it to be less sweet🥛 . Overall, I’d go back to eat for sure!

📍 6 Little Hay St, Haymarket NSW 2000

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