Palace Dumplings — Restaurant in Town of Wappinger

Driven past this place numerous times without a second thought. Then I read the reviews and had to try it. I was not at all disappointed! Ordered the panfried lamb & mushroom dumplings, the flavor green bean sheets, and the flavor crispy potatoes.

The dough for the dumplings was light and silky yet chewy. The filling was moist and flavorful and the dumplings had a light crisping. Forget the heavy dumplings you know from your typical Chinese joint. These dumplings, with more varieties of fillings than you'd ever think of, are a totally different type of food.

The Flavor Green Bean Sheets and the Flavor Crispy Potatoes are both listed as "salads" although that's a bit of a confusing classification. The green bean sheets are thick, wide "glass noodles", and I now understand where that term comes from. These noodles are as clear as they can be, deliciously chewy and slippery, and wonderfully flavorful dressed with cucumbers and what I think was a few strips of chicken in a clear, spicy sweet dressing with a distinct taste of horseradish.

The potatoes are like the best straw potatoes you will ever have! Hard, crispy shreds of potato with a vinegar and cilantro flavoring. The potatoes are dry, and a little sticky almost. I almost wish they had a sauce-y accompaniment, but nevertheless I ate the full serving.

I thoroughly recommend this place if you are feeling like something out of the ordinary. The food was delicious and interesting. Try things you've never seen on another menu before and appreciate the warm service, the authentic food and the reasonable prices (all three dishes and a soda came to less than $30).

I will definitely be back...

Discovered this place just by luck, went to pick apples first and my daughter was begging for dumplings for quite some time. Looked up for place and this one showed up on my maps, looked at the reviews and seemed decent when I got there with my family of seven the place does not look anything like outside and aside from that. There’s a pizzeria right next-door. There’s two different entrances so just be careful on that and don’t get confused. We asked for a seven top table and we seated pretty fast. We went around 6:30 and there was a few tables already eating we looked at the menu and wasn’t sure what we were gonna get but for sure dumplings. We picked shrimp w. pork, pork w. chives, we got chicken lo mein and wonton soup. There were a couple of sauces at the table to choose from anything from soy sauce, garlic vinegar and the best one of them was the spicy chili sauce. My family is Hispanic and man that sauce made everything taste BETTER!!!!! Do I recommend yes my daughter loved their soup! 1000/10 🤭 that’s how good it was but if you don’t believe this try it for yourself definitely worth it. Mind you my last thing is we are from Brooklyn, and there are other places probably closer and good as well but I would definitely be back to get this soup and try all the other choices all orders are 12 steamed if you do want them fried it’s another $2 but I can’t say much to that because we didn’t try them but I am sure they are...

The dumplings here are excellent, on par with Chinatown in Manhattan. However...some of the other food like the Lo Mein is really sub-standard. Chicken Lo Mein really ought to have chicken in it that you can find. There was literally one teaspoon's worst of chicken in a whole plate which is ludicrous. It was also very sweet which is odd.

Plus twice we've had something bad happen. The nice little old dude who takes the order wrote down the wrong thing and brought us dumplings of a variety we would never eat (mushrooms, which we both never eat). You can wait 20 minutes to get dumplings when they are busy, so when he brought the wrong dish you'd think they'd move the corrected order to the front of the queue, but no, we waited another 20. At that point wasn't worth sitting there.

Worse, one time I got an order to go and bit into something hard. It was a severed human fingernail, manicured on one side a jagged on the other. Clearly they mix the fillings by hand but it's hard to believe the woman in the kitchen didn't feel the nail break off in the mix. I have to assume she couldn't find it and just didn't want to pitch the whole batch. Kind of grossed out about that one. OK, perhaps she didn't notice, but...ew.

That being said, best dumplings in the area by far. The hot tea is nice as well, steeped fresh in a teapot for $1 per person. So, yes I recommend the dumplings which on average are 12 for about $10. On the small side,...