Steamed — Restaurant in Madison

Steamed was such a nice surprise. Upon entering you are immediately hit with cozy, relaxed, simple, and the aroma of yummy food. This is a basic, to the point menu - drinks, soup, bun, cold noodles, edamame and tofu, sticky rice, and dumplings.

We went in for a late lunch, there was the cook and the server; three other tables were filled and two more small groups came in as we were leaving. We were immediately seated, got our drinks and our food arrived as ordered.

As vegans we found a number of options, all were good sized portions as we ended up taking food home (which was still delicious the next day). Overall and a positive for me, is all the food was evenly flavored, nothing was over sauced or seasoned; but if you like you food smimming in sauce there are a number of options right on the table, so you can add as you like.

Both starters were light and tasty - the edamame and smoked tofu and spicy cold noodles - great combo with the noodles being one of those foods you keep eating even after you are full.

For our mains we overordered! Vegetable Bun (moist and filling), Vegetable dumplings (great texture and veg flavor) and the Spiced Shumai (reminded us of winter flavors). Looking forward...

I love the food here but the service leaves a lot to be desired. I ordered lunch for takeout and when the food didn't arrive in a timely manner I called the restaurant. I told them that I was hoping to have food for my lunch break and I was told they were waiting for someone to pickup my order. So while they're waiting what's going on with my food? I asked if I could cancel my order and was told "what do you want us to do with the food we already made?" When I explained that I couldn't wait I was rudely told, "what do you want me to do?" I ran to the corner store so I could have food for lunch while I waited for my order. It arrived an hour after the estimate and it was cold. I will think twice about ordering from them again. I understand delivery can be tricky but there was no reason for...

I came in on a whim while walking around the shops in the area. The restaurant is small but decent as far as appearance goes. I was very excited about the food because they have good reviews, and who doesn't love dumplings?

I ordered the chicken dumplings with a side of chengdu sauce, and a pork bun. The sauce was definitely the star of the show. The dumplings were very good, but if I hadn't gotten the sauce I would have felt they were missing something. As far as the bun goes, while the bun itself was the perfect texture, the pork inside left a lot to be desired and lacked flavor. I remedied this by pouring the remainder of my sauce into the opening of the bun I'd made when I bit into it.

Overall, it was good, and I didn't hate it. I probably should have gotten a boba or tea on the...