First impressions of Jin Jiao Gold Dumpling Bar – worth checking out if you’re in Tai Hang
This corner spot in Tai Hang doesn’t take bookings and the stools don’t encourage lingering. Traditional boiled or fried dumplings with fillings such as corn and beef with celery and cumin were nothing special
New restaurants continue to open in Tai Hang, and the latest is Jin Jiao – Gold Dumpling Bar. Although the restaurant is on a corner and has signage on both sides, it’s easy to miss and we walked right past it.
The dumplings are worth checking out – home-made with a good variety of traditional fillings. It’s really an eat-and-go kind of place: diners sit on stools, which don’t encourage lingering. They don’t take bookings but if you eat earlier at lunch or dinner, you probably won’t have to wait.
The menu is straightforward: choose the dumpling fillings, decide on six or eight pieces, and how you want them cooked – boiled or fried.
We enjoyed the vegetarian boiled dumplings (HK$42 for six), filled with chopped Chinese chives and black ear fungus. Three of the dumpling wrappers were green because they had been dyed with spinach, while the other three were red from beets, but we couldn’t detect the taste of either.
We were surprised that this place doesn’t offer a plate of vegetables to go with the dumplings, although snacks are available. We ordered the finger spring rolls (HK$38 for three), which were fried and piping hot, but they didn’t have much filling.
Jin Jiao – Gold Dumpling Bar, 9A Sun Chun Street, Tai Hang, tel: 2618 8782
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