HuTong Dumpling Bar |
HuTong Dumpling Bar has your dumpling cravings covered!
HuTong Dumpling Bar consists of three layers, each matched to your dining needs. The simple ground floor offers the warmth and ambiance of a shop in Beijing HuTong, the second offers a more elegant dining experience perfect for banquets with family and friends, whilst the top floor offers four elegant private dining rooms and some separate tables.
There's more dumpling madness. You can go vego (the vivid green boiled spinach dumplings) or the dumpling answer to the luxe spring roll, stuffed with crab and prawn, corn, bamboo shoot, spinach and carrot. There are pan-fried pork dumplings embedded in a fine mesh of pastry. Sluice `em with vinegar and chilli sauce and die happy.
There's plenty more. Oh, so much more, the menu helpfully stamped here and there with the house specialty symbol (the scallop and eggplant claypot in Sizhuan chilli sauce is all soft-textured richness; the ma po tofu a fine example of the classic), and do beware any dish carrying the three chilli legend because it is liable to blow your head right off.
broadsheet.com.au says
The anticipation of plump, juicy dumplings takes hold quickly as you walk through the door of HuTong. In both venues - CBD and Prahran - there are vantage points where you can watch chefs make the small packets of flavour by hand, to then be steamed, plated and taken to tables adorned with chilli sauce and black vinegar to dress them in.
This is Shanghainese food from eastern China, where dishes are traditionally small and designed for sharing. HuTong does a great drunken chicken and the classic xiaolongbao - small dumplings filled with meat and soup - but watch how you bite into them or the soup may finish up in your lap.
The restaurant is always very busy which means the staff, while friendly most of the time, aren't looking to stop and chat. This is a high-turnover restaurant which aims to deliver good quality Shanghaianese food to the table with little fuss, and that's what it's very good at.
broadsheet.com.au
Sunday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Monday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Tuesday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Wednesday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Thursday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 10:30pm
Friday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 11:00pm
Saturday
11:30am - 3:00pm
5:30pm - 11:00pm
❊ Address ❊
℅ Naarm
⊜ 14-16 Market Lane Melbourne 3000 View Map
✆ Telephone: 03 9650 8128
❊ Web Links ❊
➼ www.hutong.com.au➼ www.hutong.com.au
❊ Also See... ❊
➼ HuTong Prahran
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