Vancouver’s Best Dumplings

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From xiao long bao to cheddary pierogies, we’ve got ’em hot, steamed, fried, juicy and waiting for you to click through right here.

• Pork & prawn wontons at Bao Bei

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  It’s tough to pick between these XO-curry consommé-lapped babies or the delicate truffled pork dumplings. Just order both.

• Hot Chili Veg Dumplings in Garlic at Green Lettuce

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  This Indian-style Chinese restaurant makes perfect, pungent, savoury vegetarian dumplings lashed in hot, garlicy sauce.   

• Ricotta gnocchi at Nicli’s Next Door

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  Cloud-textured nuggets are auspiciously paired with chanterelles, chestnuts and smoked porchetta, and lasciviously butter-browned.

• Vegetable Bean Curd Dumplings at Ningtu

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  The best textural combination imagined (c’mon, saucy, fried, and veggie-filled? Mercy). 

• Gyoza at Gyoza King

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  Fantastic in every flavour (pork, chicken, spinach…) these unite a perfect crisp-chewy wrapper with juicy fillings and call for a splash of vinegary dipping sauce and an Asahi.

• Siu Mai at Golden Paramount Seafood

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  Golden Paramount’s strip-mall locale is often described as "nondescript," but its juicy siu mai? Super descript. 

• Pierogies at Ukrainian Village

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  Filled with cottage cheese, sauerkraut or potato and cheddar, these home country faves are second only to you babcia’s. 

• Cho Muang at Sawasdee Thai

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  Get a load of these dumplings! Stuffed with spiced chicken and artistically shaped like purple blossoms, they’re almost too pretty to eat.

• Momos at Gurkha Himalayan Kitchen

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  Served alongside chutneys for dipping, these Tibetan-style steamed dumplings come with a wide array of fillings (try the yak).

• Matzoh Ball Soup at Solley’s

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  Is this chicken soup the best comfort food in the known universe? Probably.

• Spring Rolls at Bao Chau

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  These chewy, deep-fried Vietnamese spring rolls are widely considered to be the best in town.

• Teppan Gyoza at Gyoza Bar & Ramen

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  When you want the exterior-crispness factor amped up so each bite perfectly shatters, try these addictive teppan gyoza, served in a cast-iron pan.

• Afghan Mantu at Downtown Donair & Kebab

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  This under the radar West End spot makes killer donair, but don’t miss their beef and onion filled Afghan dumplings smothered in tomatoes. 

• Spicy Tangy Dumplings at Peaceful Restaurant

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  Swimming in a chili-oil licked broth, this dumpling soup’s been called "Vancouver’s most awesome."

• Mushroom Dumplings at Jade Seafood

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  These translucent steamed dumplings burst with meaty mushrooms and are fragrant with truffle oil.

• Xiao Long Bao at Lin Chinese Cuisine & Tea House

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  Conde Nast Traveller deemed these savoury soup dumplings the world’s best, and they’re $4.99.

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