Dumpling Home is known for its xiao long bao (soup dumplings). The restaurant is set to open a second location at 2114 Fillmore St. in San Francisco.
Elaine W./YelpA popular dumpling restaurant in Hayes Valley is expanding to Pacific Heights for its second location. The new outpost of Dumpling Home, from owner Lily Wong, is coming to 2114 Fillmore St., according to Eater SF, though an exact target date is still unclear.
Dumpling Home is known for hand-folded xiao long bao (soup dumplings) in a variety of flavors, from a crab-and-pork combination to a tingly-and-spicy version with your choice of pork, chicken or beef. Aside from dumplings, Dumpling Home offers an assortment of noodle dishes, such as dan dan noodles, as well as specialty items like sliced pig ear with spicy sauce and beef tongue in “thousand-year-old sauce.”
The Michelin Guide gave Dumpling Home a nod in the 2021 Bib Gourmand list, which highlights the region’s best “affordable” restaurants. The “casual eatery excels in the delicate art of soup dumplings,” the guide wrote. Diners can watch Wong and her employees folding and pinching, folding and pinching the entire day to keep up with the demand for dumplings.
The dumplings are worthy of “leaving the house to eat,” said San Francisco Chronicle food critic Soleil Ho in November 2020, when the world was still reeling from a pandemic without an available vaccine. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms).
The second Dumpling Home will replace Fresca, a Peruvian restaurant, which used to have four locations, but now only has two.
SFGATE reached out to Wong but did not hear back in time for publication.
