restaurant review: Qing Hua

I bought 80$ worth of dumplings for a party last night. Most were available as frozen but I also bought two uncooked dishes to be boiled at the party. Everyone enjoyed them immensely. They cost from 10-13$ for 30 frozen dumplings to cook at home (6 minutes in boiling water). You get 18 boiled or 15 fried if you eat at the restaurant.

This restaurant only sells these soup dumplings and a few appetizers. All the meat dumplings have a broth in them so when you eat them there's soup gushing out. If you are not careful you can burn your tongue or splurt liquid all over yourself and your dining party.

The best flavor combination is lamb and coriander, I also like the shrimp/egg/leek one.

The restaurant started as a small below street level join on St-Marc and Tupper. It opened last winter and has been a hit at the chowhound board. They recently moved into a larger location on Lincoln and St-Mathieu (see sidebar for a google map link).

This place is part of Montreal's "Chinatown 2" which is in the Concordia ghetto. I'll be reviewing more restaurants in this area.