Serious Sanji| Dumpling & Dim Sum & Bubble Tea — Restaurant in Coral Springs

PLEASE READ I am not exaggerating anything I say, this area specifically has hosted many restaurants and I would hate to see this one go!

I came here STARVING, I had no food in my stomach since the prior night around 8PM (it was about 1:30pm) and was definitely ordering with my eyes and stomach combined. I came here as it was new and I was craving some Asian food and literally had dived into this blind. I got the menu and did NOT know they had milk tea and ordered some, which was amazing, in fact, I was able to finish the entire drink, which I normally don't do for many places that serve Boba.

Anyways, as I ordered with my eyes, I saw that multiple prices were incredibly low. 9 bucks for wonton soup and noodles???? I thought it would come on a small plate. 8 dollars for 8 dumplings??? I knew it would be small.... NOPE. I underestimated the size of these entrees and the size of my stomach as the bowl was about the size of my head, along with the 8 dumplings I got. Now, most of the time with many areas, sometimes they wouldn't taste good or you just wouldn't want any more. When I TELL YOU if my stomach was double the size and could eat it all, I WOULDVE EATEN IT ALL AT ONCE. The food was amazing, and one of the waitresses even reccomended some sauce to go with what we ordered and it tasted GREAT. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to stomach my entire meal (because I ordered two entrees probably and underestimated it's size) but they did give me to go boxes with sauce for my dumplings!

If you want some asian food thats cheap and good, I would 100000% reccomend this place. The waiters and staff are so accommodating and understanding and they really understand their customers. The food was so good, my sister who's go-to order is chicken tenders and fries ATE a new Asian dish she NEVER heard of. I would sacrifice a kidney to keep this place alive for the rest of the time I'm in Florida. AND they have such a cute little waiter robot. Feels awkward at first but I bet it's amazing! I will be coming to this place, an WILL be ordering the same things that I got.... possibly not two entrees but enough to...

Coral Springs, FL. Dumpling houses are having a moment in America (we saw them in San Diego this past December) and Serious Sanji has opened several locations since opening in Plantation, FL. They just opened in Wisconsin!

This was our first time visiting a Serious Sanji restaurant, and we came because we like dumplings. Who doesn’t? Plus they had other Chinese dishes. I read the menu online and knew we’d both like it.

We had the potstickers, shrimp fried rice, bbq pork bao buns, pork sanji, and green tea with popping mango boba. All tasted spot on, as good as we’d hoped. We ate everything, and we really shouldn’t have but it was all too delicious!

So sanji, evidently, are dumplings with five spice in the meat mixture. The shape of the dumplings is more like a tall hockey puck with the gathered dough at the bottom in a spiral. The dumpling is then made crispy somehow, but it is not greasy. I wonder if it was air fried? I asked our nice, helpful server (red hair, long ponytail) what the difference was between sanji and potstickers and they said sanji was “a lot drier.”

The potstickers were about what you’d find elsewhere, and very good, although I prefer my potstickers with more ginger. But they were good. The sauces for the potstickers and sanji seemed to be identical (soy sauce, vinegar, a touch of sugar). The sanji might have had some kaoling wine in the filling.

The shrimp fried rice was very good and had corn, a few hand-julienned carrot strips, scrambled egg, chopped red onion, chopped bok choy, and very fresh small shrimp.

The bbq pork bao buns were the modern wrap style of bao. The char siu pork was sliced thick and accompanied by cucumber and a daub of plum sauce.

The decor was modern Asian and the music was EDM. Steve said the music was relaxing. I found it upbeat. We loved how soothing it all was.

This location does not have a semi-open kitchen where you can watch the dumplings being made as in the first Serious Sanji location in Plantation, FL. But we didn’t need that. We enjoyed the modern feel of...

Serious Sanji in Coral Springs at 929 N. University Drive.

I actually think this is better than the Boca Serious Dumplings location, which has more wok stuff (this place really just has dumplings, dim sum items, a few appetizers, and some noodles and wonton soups; menus attached) and doesn’t execute very well. I like the interior design of this place better than Boca; it looks more like a nicely decorated Chinese restaurant. Definitely a more Asian aesthetic than Dumpling King and its modern and spartan deisgn, only one block away.

But that being said, the Xiaolongbao soup dumplings here need some more work, even though they appear to be making them onsite; they are being steamed hard and they are very thin-walled, so they stick to the liner paper and rupture when you try to lift them with chopsticks.

They will get completely stuck if you go Instagram mode and don’t eat them all within 5 minutes. But the flavor of the filling and juices is good, so maybe a cabbage leaf or lettuce liner instead of the paper would work better; they might not need to tweak the dough. I alerted the manager and the cook to the issue, and they are receptive to looking into this. They took the soup dumplings off the bill and replaced them with a wonton soup, which I am taking home to try.

Edit: wontons (6, smallish) and noodles good, broth dark and salty, heavily seasoned with soy sauce. Dumpling King’s version is far superior with a more delicate broth, seaweed, egg strips, and more wontons.

Beef Sanji are good; they have a cute pink color to differentiate them from the pork ones.

I ordered the regular-size Sanji, but they are also offered in miniature sizes that you can eat in a single bite. These come in a serving of about 20 in a plastic to-go bowl, and those come with a Boba drink.

They have the robot here, but human beings are following it around, which I think is hilarious.

As with all of these places, they have boba teas, and right now, they have a $1 milk tea with boba offer. You can also specify as low as 25...