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    Dumpling Empire

    4.6 (145 reviews)
    ModerateDim Sum, Noodles, Salad
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:30 pm

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    What's the vibe?
    Moderate noise
    Casual
    Dogs allowed
    Outdoor seating

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    Multicolor soup dumplings!!
    Cam J.

    Amazing authentic dumplings and hand made noodles in Omaha! Can't recommend this place enough. Friendly service and even better food!

    Cayden R.

    I think I may have died and gone to heaven when I stopped in here. The crab soup healed me in a way I didn't think soup could heal me in! The meat was perfectly cooked, fell apart as soon as you touched it with the chopsticks, literal perfection! The dumplings were delicious, so warm and stuffed with amazing fresh ingredients. The crab rangoons are some of the best I've had in a while (I say this as a crab Rangoon enthusiast). They were crispy but not hard and full of real crab! The cucumbers were crispy and sweet, with a perfect snap! Our server was quick with our orders and answered any questions we had with enthusiasm! It's a laid back shop, nothing fancy, but WOW is it a great bite!

    Sam W.

    I was impressed by all the positive reviews, so I was really excited to try Dumpling Empire! It did not disappoint! They have a large menu and we decided to try a few different items. The service was great and prompt with getting orders and bringing items out. I have never had buns and the menu was comprehensive with a description of each item. We got the Takoyaki appetizer and holy moly it was hot. I recommend poking them with a chopstick to let out some of the steam before you bite into it. We got the tri colored soup buns and the chili oil wanton soup for main dishes. They were both really flavorful. I added some of the sauce provided on the table for the buns and it was even better! I also got to try a little of the pork belly bun and it was delicious with a soft bao bun. The overall vibe of the restaurant was very casual but warm. There were several items I was scouting on the menu and checking out on others' tables, so we will be back to try more!

    Cucumber salad
    Nosa E.

    I was running errands in the area and had heard about this place so I decided to check it out! I had been to the eye doc earlier in the day but the lack of near vision could not keep me from seeing the mouth watering menu and finding some interesting items! I started with the cucumber salad. The size and make up of this plate caught me completely off guard! I don't know what I was expecting but somehow I didn't expect sliced up cucumbers in chili sauce . Frankly, that was probably my favorite item of the day. It was so refreshing and not spicy in the least bit (to me anyway). Next was the chili oil pork noodles. Coming out of the kitchen, it lacked any sort of spice so I needed a lot more chili oil. It was good before and after my alteration. It was perfect for a cool day. The broth was perfect and light. The chili oil clung to the noodles perfectly. Service was quick and attentive. I was sat as soon as I walked in and my order was taken shortly after I indicated I was ready. I'll need to come with more than just me to fully take advantage of the menu offerings here next time!

    Crab leg soup
    Chad C.

    Awesome spot on 72nd! Been here a few times and this is a great place for grabbing a warm meal. My favorite is the steamed pork dumplings, as well as the wonton soup. This last time I tried the crab leg soup which was a special, and it was also fantastic. One of my favorite appetizers is the cucumber salad...it is mixed in a spicy sauce that is incredible to use for dipping the dumplings or wonton in as well...I order this with every meal and it never disappoints.

    Chicken Fried Rice
    Cat F.

    First thing that I noticed is, the music is loud. We were greeted and seated immediately. I ordered the hot black tea and was kinda surprised that it was simply Lipton. The black tea was hot, but it didn't have much flavor at all. The wife's Hot green tea was much better. The Chicken Fried rice was delicious and there was plenty of it too. The Braised beef was served cold, I had never had it that way. The oil it was in was super good. I'm not sure that I am a fan of the cold beef dish. The dumplings were awesome and I highly recommend them. The service was lackluster and almost uncomfortable. There wasn't much of a drink selection. I will wait a bit to return.

    Pan Pan-Fried Pork Dumplings (8)
    Kathy T.

    It was my first time visiting this place and we were all excited to try a Chinese dim sum place. Overall, it was good. We ordered the steamed and pan fried pork dumplings, chili oil flat noodles, pork buns, kung pao chicken, and eggplant salad. We all really liked the flat noodles and kung pao chicken. The pork buns had a slightly different taste than what I was used to. The bun part was soft, but had a slightly fermented taste. Service was quick and the place was nice to take your family. Noise level was low and the place got filled pretty quickly during lunch hours.

    Pork Soup Noodle
    Monica C.

    Service was great, food came out fresh and quickly. Loved everything we ordered. I got the pork soup noodles (not spicy), my brother got the Szechuan soy noodles, my parents both got dumplings, and we also got soup dumplings and the eggplant salad. Obsessed with whatever sauce was in the eggplant salad, I added it to my noodles and soup dumplings too. Everything was delicious. I would come back again. (coming from an Asian who is picky about Asian food). This was authentic and I like that they have hand pulled noodles and make their dumplings from scratch! I want to try their chili oil wide noodles and beef noodle soup next time. Ambiance is laid back and comfortable! My family is in town just visiting Omaha, and we will be coming back to this restaurant for sure.

    Combination fried rice, one leftover crab Rangoon, a pork bun
    Sonia M.

    This place is small and you barely know it's there from the outside. But people are usually waiting around. We went in with another couple and the smell got to us. We were seated and ordered dumplings of course, Rangoon's, cucumber salad, and a few other things. I will get the cucumber salad every time I go because it was so flavorful and tasty. Nothing was disappointing. Everything was delicious and so fresh. They bring things out as they're done cooking, which is nice because everyone gets hot food. We dug right in so some of the food in the pictures is half eaten, but that shows how great it was. Now I know why this place is so popular and will have to come back to try other Things on the menu.

    Cucumber Salad - delicious
    Chad W.

    Very happy to say today was back to 5 stars! Service was absolutely amazing and food was outstanding! We had the cucumber salad which is a serious flavor bomb! So good! Had vegetable fried rice , Kung pao tofu, and scallion pancake. Everything was delicious!

    Vegetable noodles
    Heather W.

    My new absolute favorite!!!! So many vegetables in the noodles and the spring rolls were packed with flavor. The crab ragoons were very creamy and nicely filled. But the service is by far the stand out for this place. My son wanted the king pao chicken but doesn't do any type of spice.and the server said no problem. And it was absolutely amazing! Even as leftovers cuz you're going to need a box! The spring rolls and crab ragoons warm up perfectly in the air fryer!

    Front of building
    Jay B.

    The restaurant was about half full when we showed up around 8pm on a Sunday, and we were seated right away. The workers were friendly and helpful when we ordered. This was my first time and I wanted to try a little variety. I had chili oil wonton soup, Tri Color Soup Buns, Takoyaki, and a Braised Pork Belly Bun. Everything was hot, fresh, and tasty. The standout was the wonton soup, it was very flavorful with pork wontons and bok choy. Vibe was cozy and warm with attentive service. We will be back to try more from Dumpling Empire!

    Eggplant salad
    Barbi B.

    Perfect service, super friendly staff, easy to get a table and parking was easy! The food was very hyped and it was delicious but not completely up to my expectations. Overall a great meal! I would love to try more dumplings on my next visit!

    Cucumber salad

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    3.8
    (142 reviews)
    2.2 mi
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    Finally got a chance to try this place and it definitely something different. Nothing special to…read morewrite about the dine in portion since I think most of their customers are "to go" orders or delivery. The bao were good, but nothing spectacular. I'll try the other items on their menu if we ever get a chance to come back.

    We had one of our Supper Club group outings at Hip Bao a while back, and I have ordered delivery…read moreorders from them many times since. Each and every time, it has been consistently delicious and affordable! The ambiance when eating in is very colorful and fun. The staff we interacted with were all great about any questions we had or recommendations we asked for. We started with the Pork Potstickers. They were juicy and full of meat (no skimping, here!) that was perfectly cooked, along with plenty of sauce for dipping. Another starter we tried as the Dumpling Soup that comes inside a dumpling and gooshes out when you cut into it. The soup inside was salty and delicious, and I loved the style it was served in. Our last starter was the Beijing Noodle Soup. It came with Asian noodles, minced bits of pork, and lots of shredded veggies. It reminded me of a few other ramens I've had, but with a twist on it, as the meat was minced so it was a lot easier to have a bit of the meat in each bite/slurp! After our starters and soups, we obviously had to get a few bao buns each - I think we probably tried all of them when all was said and done. They have both steamed and fried bao buns, and we tried both. They definitely had a different texture than each other, but I liked them both; they were just different styles. My favorite was the pork fried bao bun. I liked the chicken and the beef steamed options too, but the pork seemed to work best as the protein along with the fried bao texture. Everything we had on our first visit (and that I've had in my subsequent orders) has been absolutely delicious and cooked expertly - so I don't think you can go wrong with anything you try!

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    Blue & Fly Asian Kitchen

    Blue & Fly Asian Kitchen

    4.3
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    What can I say, transparency is an attractive trait on a restaurant…read more Started off with their Crab Rangoons, neatly plated with some great drizzle. Very little crab flavor, and its texture was damn near close to ricotta cheese but they were DELISH! Anyone else save the corners for a little texture in their next dish? No? Just me? Yall, I am telling you... their Peanut Butter Chicken was PHENOMENAL, and definitely have some real peanut on board. MUCH appreciated that. Their breading to chicken was by far, near perfection. More protein than breading is always a win-win in my book... it was like little puffs of breading, versus cakey/battery. Comes with your choice of steamed or fried rice, egg drop soup or hot and sour soup. Their Hot and Sour was SO good, with just the right amount of tofu. Highly recommended either honestly. Now the Sesame Chicken? Dare say I should've gotten that dish? It too, was AMAZING. Especially with those warm green peppers, onion, rich brown sauce that has just the right amount of garlic that made me ask kindly, with doey eyes, for a second piece off my husbands plate. SO good! We brought home a good amount for left overs tomorrow; assuming they last till midnight... We must've gotten in at the right time, because she was BUSYYYY with maybe 3 of the 15 (I could be completely off!) tables. Staff didn't just stick to one table, they were definitely tag teaming and that was neat to watch them work so well. We got checked on a few times and they're attentive as heck! We will DEFINITELY be back to try some of that Garlic Chicken and Cashew Chicken, extra cashews.

    I had heard great things about Blue & Fly but it exceeded all expectations. We had their yummy…read moredumplings to start with our winner and beer. These were the best deep-fried dumplings. I ordered Kung Pao Chicken from their Authentic menu. He ordered Sweet and Sour Chicken from their Chinese American menu. We also ordered soups. Hot & Sour for me and Dumping for him. Both entrees were delicious. Authentic Kung Pao Chicken is the same as Chinese American Kung Pao Chicken except they use dark meat. That dark meat was so tender and moist! You must have their hot & sour soup. I think it's better than I've had in SFO or LA Chinatown. Go!

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    Grand China Buffet

    Grand China Buffet

    2.8
    (160 reviews)
    5.3 mi
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    COME HERE IF YOU WANT TO BE SICK! Walked into the most horrible smell, ordered a drink , had food…read morechunks in it , and old crusts on my silverware! Didn't even get any food. The service was horrible and they kept pointing and whispering. I was charged $44 for two drinks that were untouched and no food. Actually horrible customer service. Not to mention the attitude I got when I didn't tip for my two drinks and two meals (Didn't even get food) . Just go to Panda Express you'll get better food there

    The Grand China Buffet is super close to our house and we hadn't been there in a long time, so…read moredecided to pop in recently. It is pretty inexpensive, but unfortunately, you definitely get what you pay for in that respect. The decor is pretty cute, with little Pixiu dragons outside the entrance, high vaulted ceilings in the dining area letting lots of natural light in, and murals of different Chinese cities. But what really matters is the food when you're there for a meal, and the offerings were pretty standard, but nothing to write home about or plan a return visit. At any buffet, I like to get a small amount of each thing I'd like to try, instead of one large plate of one entree (I would go to non-buffet option for that). I started with a few appetizer style items: -Corn: This tasted like canned corn that you'd have at home, so a little disappointing. -Lo Mein: Okay for lo mein noodles, but pretty dry. I mixed this with some of the sauce of the proteins I got, so that helped. -Crab Rangoon: Not the best Rangoon I've ever had, but I did like the shape (little flower bud style) and the thinner consistency of the wonton. -Pork Bao: I was excited for this, but it ended up being very doughy with one tiny sliver of the Pork inside. For the entrees, I had small portions of a handful of them: -Black Pepper Chicken: This was actually pretty tasty and flavorful with the pepperiness. -Pepper Steak: This was similar to the Black Pepper Chicken, but it was a non-breaded style like the chicken had been so a different consistency. -Peanut Butter Chicken: One of my go-to favorites when I go to Chinese restaurants. This one was pretty dry and crispy so not the best texture of flavor I've had for this dish. -Broccoli Chicken: Another of my favorites usually, and this one wasn't terrible. The brown sauce was nice and the chicken was pretty juicy. -General Tso Chicken: I think this was my favorite of the entrees I tried. It had the sweetness along with a slight spice, so it wasn't a one-note flavor or too sweet, like some can be. And then for the dessert options, there were a few hits and misses: -The fried donuts were amazing, but you HAVE to eat them when they are hot and fresh. They become hard as a rock if you let them get cold. -There was a dark chocolate cake, that was the driest thing I had ever put in my mouth. I don't recommend that cake. -They had a cooler with Blue Bunny ice cream, and you can't go wrong with that. -There was an eclair style cake that was pretty dry so I wouldn't recommend that either. -Coconut Cake: I don't even like coconut usually, but this was pretty fluffy and delicious. The coconut was shaved on top so it wasn't as offensive of a coconut flavor as usual. Overall, this definitely is not the best Chinese buffet in Omaha (it's not even in the conversation), but it's a passable option if you have no other way to get to one of the better options in town.

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    Roaches at least what I was able to capture. It took me a while to pull out my phone but there were plenty more!!
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    Wow Bao

    1.7
    (3 reviews)
    4.3 mi

    Wow Bao is a "ghost kitchen" run out of Fazoli's. Some ghost kitchens can be pretty good, depending…read moreon which brick and mortar restaurant they're run out of - and I think that formula shows here too (in not a good way). I was cautiously optimistic because I like bao buns, so I gave this a shot. I ordered a few things to make sure I liked at least something: -Spicy Mongolian Beef Bao: This was my favorite thing I got. It was a nice little soft bun filled with a tangy beef mixture. It wasn't too spicy, so don't let the name scare you off. Just a little twinge of heat, but mostly for flavor and not blasting you out of the room with spiciness. -Teriyaki Chicken Bao: I usually love teriyaki chicken, but I didn't love it in this bao bun. The mixture inside was overly sweet and there was no other flavor to cut down on the cloying flavor. I tried dipping it in the provided soy sauce, but it didn't help very much, so I sort of gave up on this one. -Spicy Kung Pao Chicken Bowl: This was a nutty mixture of toppings with little bits of chicken, all over a big hunk of white rice. The chicken was good and packed a little punch of heat. The rice below was ok for a while, but it ended up not being super flavorful once all the meat and toppings were eaten. Maybe it was a little too much rice to mix with the small amount of toppings provided. -Ginger Chicken Potstickers: These were pretty flavorful and they did not skimp on the filling. The crimped spots holding the potstickers closed was a little bit too crispy (I like them to be a little crispy, but this was on the verge of burnt and hard.) All the items I ordered (including a $3 soda) totaled about $30 before tip, just to give you an idea. The packaging was done well and branded with the Wow Bao logo, which was nice when so many other ghost kitchens just use the host restaurant's packaging/containers. One thing I will note, though, is that the bao buns have a little paper underneath them that says what the flavor is, so you can tell which is which - but that paper sort of sticks to the bun, so be sure you take that off (it's a little hard to remove!) I'd say if you're craving delivery bao buns or rice bowls, this is an okay choice - but I'd recommend a few others (non ghost kitchens) before this one.

    Absolutely disgusting and it is clearly just frozen, mildly heated up, and ready to take your…read moremoney. I literally threw it all away after one bite.

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    Closer look at everything I ordered
    Closer look at everything I ordered
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    2 Pack of Bao
    One, look at this thing! no rice, no chicken, sauce is watery. Awful. Two, they forgot my order of orange chicken.

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    One, look at this thing! no rice, no chicken, sauce is watery. Awful. Two, they forgot my order of orange chicken.

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