Mama Dumpling — Restaurant in Longueuil

Let me start off by saying that I enjoy Mama Dumpling and my girlfriend absolutely LOVES Mama Dumpling's fried dumplings to the point she orders them over Pizza, Poutine, Wings, Chicken and anything else available. Unfortunately because of how the dumplings (steamed and fried) are inconsistent from one batch to the next, I felt it necessary to finally post a review.

The pictures below are three batches of fried dumplings from a single order. It's clear which ones have been fried to a light golden crisp and which ones were left in too long. Now if you're reading this wondering "what's the issue?" or "how bad can it really be?", the answer is that the dumplings when steamed or fried too long begin to burst and fall apart, lose their juices and have a singed flavour that ruins ultimately ruins them. This happens with just about every order we've received going back 4-5 months when we began ordering from Mama Dumpling. Now some of you may or may not feel the same way I do but I just feel like the restaurants in our region have gone downhill rapidly in recent years and I don't know if it's a neighborhood thing, a Quebecois thing or if restaurant workers just don't care enough but this is seems to be plaguing both small and large restaurants everywhere and why I'm taking the time write this is that I hope the same thing doesn't happen to Mama Dumpling. A pattern of laziness and lack of care in preparation has always been an issue for some restaurants but now whether it's McDonalds, Belle Province, Benny BBQ0, St-Hubert BBQ, Pizza Pizza, Pizza Hut, Dominoes, KFC, etc.. the food is never consistently well prepared, hot, fresh and delicious like it's supposed to be. Every day it gets harder to justify ordering takeout due to soaring prices how inconsistent every meal ends up being. Normally, I have no problems offering constructive feedback to the restaurant through Door Dash, Uber Eats, Skip or even calling the location but as it turns out restaurant workers & the owners refuse to believe they serve anything but the very best food (big shocker!) and when the quality of their food is called into question, they quickly turn into complete lunatics (shout out to Jacques Cartier Pizza on Mtee. St-Hubert!) hellbent on defending themselves while hurling insults at the customer, so I've just decided to avoid calling out restaurants for their mistakes because at this rate my girlfriend and I will end up not being able to order from anywhere because the lack of care that goes into preparing the food is so inconsistent.

To sum it up, Mama Dumpling is tasty, very tasty in fact. The curry flavours are great, the dumplings (steamed and fried) are fantastic when done with care and despite regularly having issues with the fried dumplings being too fried, the ingredients are fresh and delicious. My girlfriend never stops craving Mama Dumpling and she just loves it. My only issue is the inconsistency. Be more consistent, be more careful, keep an eye on your employees' technique and don't let poorly prepared food go...

This review pertains solely to the chicken curry fried dumplings. Friendly advice: don't order fried dumplings. Naturally, they're not fried all around however, these dumplings are only cooked on one side. That is to say that the dough on the other side was completely raw. I had ordered this through Uber eats so I called to complain of this and was told that that was completely normal. I opened the next dumpling to eat the filling just to be met with a solid mass of shiny something which was exceedingly hard to break apart with chopsticks, which begs the question: when were they actually made? This is the first time I've ever been told that it was normal for dough to be raw. The only thing which had a palatable taste in all of this was the sauce they sent with the dumplings. Unfortunately I can't fill my...

Very dissapointed, the dumplings were either watery or dry. The supposed peanut butter dumplings were awful, they just had a glob of peanut butter on them with no seasonings. Everything was really salty. We ordered the porc kimchi dumplings which were edible, and the shrimp dumplings that had a strange wet and dry texture. The restaurant itself it very nice, and the service is quick and friendly but the food was terrible. I will not be going back. Frozen dumplings bought at the asian market are 100X better. Don't waste your money. Observed some questionable food...