Beijing Pie House北京餡餅 — Restaurant in Monterey Park

The service is horrible! The food wasnt impressive either. Overall a disappointment.

Food lack flavor and takes a long time to cook. Under seasoned and underwhelming. Ordered pork/shrimp pan fried dumpling, beef roll and pork/green onion pie. The beef roll needed some hoisin sauce. The meat pie was juicy and heavy, full of meat but needed some salt. It's like the basic tenants of cooking: salt. If you can get salting your food right you have no business having a hole in the wall restaurant.

Oh, don't come hungry. It took 40 minutes for us to get our pie. It's like wth you doing? Killing the pig fresh is the back?! The table next to us sat down, ordered and within 10 minutes go theirs. So of course I had to get ignorant to get my food.

Also, apparently you have to be aggressive. I was trying to be civilized, got my number for a table like it was posted on the door. But apparently tables are a free for all, if it's open, just sit down even if it isnt clean. I waited for my number to be call to only be cut off by aggressive people more hungry than I.

If you want service... (laughs) yeah, goodluck. You either gotta yell at them in mandarin or just yell lol. No joke. We asked for a box and our bill, they brought it to the table next to us that recently got there and was still eating. Both our tables looked confused and the lady yelled at the server in chinese and said, 'do not see that we are still eating?! Why are you rushing us, you're rude and not well mannered.'

This place got me feeling like one of those privilege chicks (公主) didn't get their way. Should had went to...

The star of the show here is the pies, and they are AMAZING! You can't go wrong with any flavor. Just order them. I got the Lamb & green onion and they broke my mouth. The top and bottom are seared enough to give it some texture and hold it together while you're holding it. Trust me--it's necessary because of how much literal soup that comes out of it, and every drop is delicious! That being said, have a good amount of napkins readily available 'cause you'll need them. The inside was a mouth singing trip to flavor city, and worth it!

I also got the Lamb & green onion dumplings, and they were amazing as well. The insides were also swimming in their own soup as the pies surrounded by a soft wrapper which could barely contain itself. 2nd verse same taste as the first, but different delivery this time. In this application, they were marinating in a container of the chili oil they supplied, but not without tasting one on its own first. Unfortunately, I carefully ate it in the car due to Covid reasons. I chased the dumplings down with the pool of it's own soup created by the dumplings I mercilessly devoured.

I would've ordered more, but the day was early. I had to save room for a few more places. There's not question that I'm going here again the next time I'm in the area albeit with more room reserved for...

One of my favorite things to eat in L.A. is here: Pumpkin with Pork & Shrimp Dumpling, pan-fried... the dumplings lightly stuck together with a crunchy bird's nest-like thin crispy batter.

Don't let the words Pie House fool you... This small formica table bare-bones restaurant is not the Beijing version of Marie Calendars... there's nothing dutch-apple about this place. The menu is divided into sections: Pies, Pancakes, Dumplings, Soup, Appetizers, Noodles&Wontons.

The "pies" are hockey puck sized dumplings, pan fried on the sides, crammed with your choice of fillings: Summer Squash & Lamb, Fennel & Pork to name just a few favorites.

The "pancake"s are not of the Grand Slam Denny's variety... but flat pan-fried crisped dough (a slightly thicker flakier distant cousin to a flour tortilla) filled with your choice of Lamb or Pork or Beef with Green Onion.

And the dumplings... filled with delicious combinations like Leeks with Pork & Shrimp, Basil Eggplant & Pork... and the before mentioned mind blowing Pumpkin with Pork & Shrimp... should not be missed.

Start things off with an appetizer plate of Cold Cucumber with Garlic and you will be happy that you're not in a Baker's Square eating a slice of Corporate pie... you're eating some good pie, though......