Dumpling Kitchen - Factory — Restaurant in Foster City

So they use to be Sui Mai Factory, then they were Pan Kee foods, and now Dumpling Kitchen!... For now anyways hahaha

Anywho, I don't know if it was a name change or a change in ownership but they're the sister restaurant to the Dumpling Kitchen in the city in the Sunset. The one frequented by Ali Wong.

I don't care about that. The only thing that mattered to me is that they didn't get rid of their frozen custard baos. And they didn't!

Looks like they still have all the frozen foods from their Pan Kee - Sui Mai days, now with hot foods ready for takeout or delivery through Grubhub.

We got the sui mais and their custard baos as usual. They have a large assortment of dumplings but I've found the skin is too thick for my preference. And while they have more meat, they lack flavor compared to my normal dumpling joint. The custard baos and sui mais are better buys imo.

Moving on. For hot foods, we got D5: Taiwan braised beef over rice. I thought it lacked beef as it's heavy on rice, pickled veggies and steamed broccoli, but it all has good flavor.

They also recommended A24: Xi'an pork belly rougamo. Basically fried pork belly sando. It comes with two so we got one spicy and one not spicy... But there was zero heat to the spicy one so if you like it hot, ask for extra spicy?

Overall, I'm excited to try more of their hot food options. And they offer 10% off to your first online order. You know I...

Dumpling Factory report: 10/10 in terms of food!

Dumpling we're all handmade and wrappers were too. These are Beijing style dumplings which means they're overstuffed with tons of filling. It tastes as good as the ones my mom makes, which is super high praise. Their spicy dadan noodles were also homemade and super springy with an awesome sauce. Their pork belly sandwiches and scallion pancakes were also top.

Basically, everything tastes exactly as they would if I bought them in Beijing and it's legit good. Also portions for noodles were HUGE and enough to split between two people

Would highly recommend it for the food! Service was ok and there's not much space to eat so I advise doing takeout and walking across the street to eat...

Disclaimer this isn't a dine in spot, so my photos are from my vehicle. Now that, that is out of the way. The food was pretty good. The portions where better than I expected. The lady was friendly and even informed me of the sweetness of one of the items i choose. Which I personally appreciated. I greatly enjoyed all 3 dishes that I ordered. Granted due to the portions, I was unable to finish any of them. But rest assured dinner is covered tonight. Star of the show was the pork...