Breakfast Menu "Mama Lu's Dumpling House" Monterey Park
Traditional Chinese chow such as dumplings & won tons, with frozen items available for take-home.
Mama Lu's Dumpling House, 153 E Garvey Ave, Monterey Park, CA 91755
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If you are looking for excellent and authentic Chinese food, then this is your place. We came on Saturday at 5:30pm, which I’m glad we did because we got seated in 5-10 mins for the two of us. Later in the evening, there were lines of people waiting get in. Although “dumpling” is in the name of this restaurant, I would say their main meat, seafood, and vegetable dishes are extraordinary in taste /flavor/seasoning, and cooking techniques. Don’t get me wrong , their soup dumplings are good too, but my favorites were everything else. You must come here when visiting L.A.
I saved this restaurant a while back on my maps as restaurants I want to try. Good thing when our friends happen to be visiting from Dubai this restaurant is close to the hotel we booked. I'm glad my wife called ahead of time to pick up food. Especially it's a Friday, dinnertime the place is packed. While some people are also in and out to pick up food To-Go. Ordered roasted beef noodle soup, spicy pork and shrimp wonton, shrimp fried rice, hot steamed chicken with ginger and scallions, and mushroom tofu. We are happy with our food selection. I enjoyed the steamed chicken. Good amount of food that can be shared with family.
the check in as soon as you get there is very informal, but it’s part of the experience. the waiters are constantly on GO TIME because of how busy this place gets. the good is honestly so delicious, I’d say the only thing out of everything that had a bit of a potent taste (not too big of a fan) was the sweet & sour soup. the fried dumplings & wonton soup were absolutely perfect.
Great prices and even better food. We ordered the pan fried baozi, soup dumplings, and scallion pancakes and all of them were great. Pan fried baozi was crispy and had a good amount of meat to dough ratio. Soup dumplings was amazing-- very flavourful. But the best had to be the scallion pancakes, which was thin and shattering flakiness of dough. Incredible price. Would highly recommend!
First time here. Food was plentiful. Dishes were not very favorable. It has a B rating. Place is not clean. Walls and ceiling were very dirty. Staff was very nice and efficient.
This was a highly recommend spot with a funny story to tell about the "3 different Mama Lu" so I went in for a quick order of dumplings but my son immediately thought we were eating here and marched in a took a table lol. He was happy with the rice and pancake and honestly that's a win for me. Didn't care for the dumplings.
Would definitely come back for the xiao long baos and spicy wontons. The corn & egg drop soup, shrimp fried rice and mapo tofu were also all delicious. The fish dumplings by itself could’ve used more flavor, it was good in the spicy wonton sauce though. The pan fried dumplings were also okay.
This was a nice place, honestly a huge menu to chose with all protein options and everything from dumplings to dishes. The interior is nice and modern. The dumplings were great, as was my chicken and beans, but I did try the Chinese broccoli and chicken and it was not flavorful at all. Like, maybe less than food court level food. I do recommend the dumplings though.