A new dumpling restaurant opened near NRG Stadium Jan. 18, the restaurant confirmed to Community Impact.

The overview

88 Dumpling House is a new restaurant that focuses on serving both Americanized and authentic Chinese dishes, as well as a selection of Southeast Asian specialities.
88 Dumpling House is a new restaurant focuses on serving both Americanized and authentic Chinese dishes, as well as a selection of Southeast Asian specialities. (Courtesy 88 Dumpling House)
88 Dumpling House is a new restaurant that focuses on serving both Americanized and authentic Chinese dishes, as well as a selection of Southeast Asian specialties. (Courtesy 88 Dumpling House)
On the menu

The restaurant serves classic dumplings such as pork and cabbage fried dumplings, spicy wontons in chili oil and pork soup dumplings. They also deviate away from traditional dumplings with dumplings filled with crayfish, a four-color dumpling platter featuring purple, green, yellow and white dumplings, Spanish mackeral fish dumplings and even chocolate xiao long baos—also known as chocolate soup dumplings.

Aside from dumplings, 88 Dumpling House serves Chinese and Southeast Asian specialty dishes such as Malaysian laksa, the numbing mapo tofu, Americanized orange chicken and Thai basil beef.


Customers can also buy their dumplings frozen to cook at home later, including 50 piece dumplings and 30 piece soup dumplings.