My husband and I are huge dumpling fans, in fact we make it our bussiness to visit yumcha restaurant at least once a week. When I saw a picture of dumplings at Luyu & Yum Yum I had to make the booking right away! We arrived the restaurant on Sunday early lunch at 12PM. The restaurant is located in middle of busy King street area in Newtown. Upon arriving, I noticed interesting dumpling decor at the gate of the restaurant. As you walk up to the stairs you are greeted by a golden statue with a bottle of Lemann's Shiraz :-)
The restaurant decor is modern with pleasant and comfortable lighting throughout the interior. We were the first came in the restaurant so place was quiet and I can see the chef's dumpling making room over the glass window.
We set down on a corner table and looked at our yellow paper menu, ordered green tea and few different dumpling dishes.
They also have an extensive Tea menu, we ordered one pot of Iron Buddah Tennin.
The tea was absolutely beautiful, made with fresh tea leaves. It tastes rich and of great quality.
Tea pot was rather small, through out our lunch I think we refilled with water about 4 times and it tasted still great on each refill. I would've like more if they had used a bigger tea pot.
First dish we had was Duck Pancake at $16.80 (4 pc). The tender duck breast pieces were wrapped in fresh filo pastry accompanied by beautiful hoisin sauce, chili, cucumber and shallot pieces. I love the presentation and the taste was great.
Next dish was Luyu mixed Steamer $18.80(6pc) which is mix of herb dumplings, fungi dumplings & starburst dumplings. They also brought three dipping sauces - chili oil, vinegar & soy sauce. I loved the chili oils. I think it brings out the flavor nicely.
I loved fungi dumplings, I am a fan of vegetarian dumplings and this was done well. Herb dumplings were my favorite out of the three, it taste so refreshing with touch of chives combined with prawns.
I did not like Starburst dumplings which explains 'chicken & Mr Luyu homemade soup in fruit infused flour dough steamed'. I found this dumpling to be rather gamy and didn't taste very nice.
We ordered more dumplings, Caviar dumplings $13.80 (4pc) , flying fish dumplings $13.80 (4pc) and Snow White rabbit dumplings$12.80 (3pc). Caviar dumplings and flying fish dumplings were incredible. Best dumplings ever. So fresh and tasty not to mention how beautifully they are made!
The Caviar dumpling tasted amazing with the chili oil sauce.
I think these dumplings are decent sized and the ingredients are really fresh.
The next dish was Snow white Rabbit dumplings and as name suggests it looked like little rabbits. It is almost too cute to eat! although I didn't enjoy this one as much. I found it tasted little bland.
Our last dish arrived. It is called Manga Dumpling. $12.80 (3pc) A.K.A Hedgehog. I absolutely loved this dish. I have to say this was my favorite dish from the lunch. This is vegetarian dish made with King oyster mushroom, Chinese mushroom, fungi, carrot, coriander in flour dough baked. The dough was fresh straight out of the oven. It was so pleasantly crunch outside and the slightly sweet dough was complimented by the savory mushroom fillings. Total Heaven. I can tell this would be something I will crave and made me want to come back!
All in all I really enjoyed our lunch here, most of the dumplings were amazing and service was great.
Final bill came it was $103.80.
Yes the dumplings are more expensive than the average Yumcha restaurants in Chinatown however I think it's worth that extra dollar. They are made so beautifully and unique. If you are a dumpling fan I think this place is a must visit.
I wouldn't recommend Starburst or Rabbit dumplings but other than these two all other dishes were better than any other dumplings I have tasted before.
I would definitely come back and to try other dishes next time.
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