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Hello all! Hope you are enjoying your weekend. For me Saturday and Sunday is a great time to meet up with friends, chat, and catcha bite to eat. One of my favorite items are dumplings and I noticed that many here on the forum do too! Fellow PuristS 'spell...  

Our next stop was also in the Hacienda Heights area...New Noodle Garden: On the wall was a banner claiming to win some kind of major noodle or dumping award. The place was busy so that was a good indicator as we looked over the menu. For the hand made noo...  

Out in Monterey Park is a restaurant next to a Asian supermarket, K&Y: The place is small but very busy. Pickled cucumbers, very garlicky and a bit sweet. They are known for their Xiao Long Bao: These were very good but nothing exceptional as was the ...  

Went to Pine and Crane as a guest of a friend; and as you warned, it left something to be desired.

Pine & Crane is the only decent place in that area that's way it is so busy. What did you order? -MW

What was ordered: Beef roll. This had too much cucumber, and the menu didn't state the ingredients of the beef roll, so this was a surprise. I wasn't expecting cucumber to be the primary overall ingredient other than the beef. The hoisin sauce here was ni... 

Thanks DRMW for this post. Looks like more dumpling places that I need to try out. Regards, ED-209

I'll post some pics of the place we went to over the weekend, it was pretty good! -MW