Dumplings & More - Footscray

Very cheap and great quality for what you get. The fried lamb noodles are really really nice. It’s got handmade noodles that are nice and chewy. It’s a bit oily though. The cucumber salad is very refreshing.

Cute, cheap and cheerful. Service is always the same and it has a lovely dumpling house vibe. Always really enjoy the food here and would recommend to anyone who loves dumplings.

Great food, order the Chinese broccoli and prawn dumplings. Its cheap. And staff are super friendly. Have been here a couple times and will continue to return.

Cleanliness has never gotten between me and a good meal – I am from Malaysia, after all, where I grew up on open-air dining in a humid, tropical city and its accompanying creepy crawlies (I’ll stop there because I want people to get hungry reading this review) – but Northern Chinese Footscray stalwart Dumplings More is nothing like what Zomato reviews suggest. Could the restaurant have cleaned up its act in the last few months? Perhaps. Was my cutlery wet? Yes, but at least I knew they’d been washed! Was the restaurant grimy and dirty? Far from it. It was plain and bare, yes, and I wouldn’t nominate its interiors for Best Restaurant Design, but I was pleasantly surprised by how clean it was after reading the ghastly Zomato reviews.

My score 4 stars. J I had lunch here on Thursday 4th of April.  We had been here before had Vego dumplings, Tofu skin salad, Eggplants in Sichuan sauce (a cheap, huge, but quite sweet dish .  <br/ <br/ This time we swapped the Eggplants for Fried Lamb noodles (now $12 Handmade noodles were plentiful quite chewy (but in a soothing way .  Thin pieces of lamb were soft flavoursome, but not “fatty or muttony” – the sauce was similar (so J could eat some .  It also had celery (quite small pieces, a big tick , bok choy, a little bit of onion tiny bit of tomato.  Gravy was nice – you need to mix it around to make the noodles moist slippery.  Only chopsticks were supplied, so the long noodles were a bit hard to eat “daintily” don’t order if you’re on a date! <br/ <br/ Vego dumplings (still $9.80 for 15 Really good .  Nice flavour filling – exotic spices (maybe some cumin, but subtle so nice .  Quite different from most places (in a good way .  Wrapper dough thick a bit chewy, but in a nice way.  A bargain !<br/ <br/ Tofu skin salad (still $3 Tofu sheets softened in some sort of salty chilli dressing (but still chewy with carrot pieces. Unusual (for us quite moreish (I would prefer some of the carrot to be smaller, but J liked them .  Bargain for the amount !<br/ <br/ Free tea was tasty had no trace of bitterness . <br/ <br/ Overall cheap, no frills, out of the ordinary (Northern regional Chinese food – good dumplings noodles. 1 woman seemed to be doing everything, service was ok, some language issues, but she was pleasant we all got round it.  We had to take away about ¾ of a TA container of noodles, as there was too much food (for $24.80 .  If you’re fussy about ambience, spotlessness silver service – give it a miss.  If you like to wing it/slum it/eat good cheap food – give it a go. The vego dumplings by themselves are worth a return visit !