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My Neighbours the Dumplings – restaurant review - East End Review
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We tried about eight dishes and although the general quality was high, some were more successful than others.
The lamb and coriander potstickers were crispy without greasiness and the turnip cake with Chinese sausage and shiitake mushrooms was outstanding.
The siu mai, however, weren’t firm enough, and the pork in the filling overpowered the prawn rather than hitting a balance.
Far and away the best dish was the whole steamed lemon sole in a coriander butter sauce, the coda to our meal.
Although the daily fish selection changes, I expect the quality will remain outstanding.
My Neighbours The Dumplings | Clapton Chinese Restaurant
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Because My Neighbours The Dumplings is a little family run restaurant specialising in handmade dumplings (who knew?)
Dumplings make up the majority of the menu, made fresh on-site every day, you’ll find steamed ones stuffed with pork prawn, or shiitake mushroom, as well as crispy dumplings fattened with lamb coriander.
Or, should you be in the market for something a little stiffer, you can swap out the tea for sake.
In fact, they have a sake list so special it’s even earned itself its very own specialised bar downstairs.
Matilda’s Sake Bar they call it; a dimly lit space where – propped up on a wooden bar stool, or from the depths of a leather sofa – you can either sip on sake (all sourced from another family-run business in Japan), or alternatively try a cocktail from their weekly changing list, one of their many Japanese whiskies, Shochu (a traditional Japanese Liquor), or beer.
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My Neighbours The Dumplings, London E5, restaurant review
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Pork belly is a masterpiece, pungent with five spice, the meat tender, the fat almost slurpable, the crackling a dangerously good crunch of piggery.
The couple who own it recently opened a divey sake bar downstairs, named after their own “little dumpling”, baby Matilda.
It’s a long time since I’ve eaten in a back alley with a view of what looks like a fly-tip, complete with abandoned mattress, but here at weekends, improbably shod artist/designer Meihui Liu “curates” (sorry) a small number of handmade Taiwanese-style dumplings from a tiny wooden shack at the Cleve Courtyard market just off Boundary Street (due to reopen in mid-January).
We sit outside at oil-clothed tables under bunting, necking vegetarian ones, silky and swollen with glass noodles, sesame oil, kale, spring onions and tofu, and all lacy-bottomed from the frying; and wonderfully juicy pork and cabbage versions, neatly pleated, potsticker-style, and eight to a portion.
There might be udon, or pork belly rice, or a heroically gooey fried pancake of spring onion wrapped around kimchi and cucumber with sriracha on the side.
My Neighbours the Dumplings | Restaurants in Lower Clapton ...
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Purists, take note: this isn’t your traditional dim sum restaurant and doesn’t claim to be.
Instead, My Neighbours the Dumplings has adopted the dim sum dining style of shared small plates and given it a hip east London twist, combining traditional Chinese dishes with other popular Asian influences, including Thai-style green papaya salad and a saké-based drinks menu.
Heavenly chocolate dumplings were like naughty, deep-fried Milky Ways while the matcha tea rice pudding with coconut jam had me licking the bowl – although I was so full it was hard for me to move even this much.
After running a series of pop-ups, MNTD has wisely chosen to settle down on an increasingly popular stretch in Lower Clapton that’s full of new restaurants, and it’s already attracting a loyal local following with friendly service, distressed walls, communal tables, glowing street food signs, reasonable prices and a buzzing atmosphere.
Yes, everyone knows that most of the best dim sum in London is to be found in Chinatown, but if you’re in need of a dumpling fix and can’t face battling through the throngs of lost tourists in Leicester Square, MNTD offers a pleasing alternative that feels far more like ‘the place to be’ than your average restaurant on Rupert Street.