Fat Dumpling

Came here for the 1^st time with my husband & a friend. We wanted to grab something to eat before downing some drinks at the Golden Tiki next door. I was pleasantly surprised and will be returning for another round.
Ordered 2 boba slushes — ok. A little bland but not bad.
Chicken & cabbage dumplings — D’lish, liked those a lot
Vegetarian buns — ok. kinda small and a bit bland — was expecting more seasonings
Takoyaki — my husband liked it. I wont eat octopus, lol
Lemon crispy chicken — soooo good! the lemon sauce was thick like honey and oh so flavorful!
Eggplant in garlic sauce — Loved it! The garlic sauce was a little spicy and warmed you up from the inside!
Thank you Fat Dumpling! We stopped in to grab a quick bite and were delighted to receive a good meal! We’ll be back.

I always come here to get my boba drinks.
I like to get the lychee coconut. It’s delicious! My son likes to stick to the taro. My husband likes to try different flavor a each time. We like that they offer a wide variety of boba drinks. They have frequent buyer card, so occasionally I’ll get a free boba drink.

This place only stays open till 1am so make sure you get there in decent time. The food was great the service was great the prices were reasonable. The portions are big and the leftovers the next day tasted even better!!! They have the largest variety of Boba I’ve ever seen in my entire life. They have tofu dishes good for vegetarians like myself.

Cute little restaurant, we came here for lunch but they also have a lot of drinks that we didn’t try. We ordered the beef noodle soup, pork soup dumplings, and shrimp dumplings, all were tasty. The beef is fine but I’ve had more tender ones, that’s why I docked a star. The 2 dumpling dishes were great. Will definitely return if I’m in the area again.

I was on this side of town and since there aren’t much boba tea shops in old henderson I decided to get some boba over here. What a mistake!
I got a strawberry mango smoothie with boba and this smoothie tasted more like! WATER! than mango and strawberry.
They do have a good veriety of drinks but they just put too much ice in them.
Also the boba was tastless.
I wouldn’t recommend this place sorry but no.

This has become one of my favorite spots. I originally went here because the phở restaurant was packed. Now I choose to go. The dumplings are great and so is the tea. Service was quick. They aren’t warm and fuzzy there, but I’m ok with it since the food is so good.

Was craving Boba tea after dim sum.
.thought it was a pure Boba tea place… but it’s a sit down diner plus smoothies and bona tea.
My fav niece got the taro milk and I got the payapa pineapple smoothie… not too bad… but next time. I’ll go to a pure Boba tea shop

I’m totally a fan of this place!
Reading the less than stellar reviews. I was wary– but when a number of people mentioned that it was an «above average» establishement. I was willing to give it a try. I’m very glad I did.
While it’s true that there is nothing over-​the-​top, or stand out about what they do. What they do offer, is well executed and really delicious.
Since it was my first try I stuck to favorites like Singapore style noodles, Bok Choy, and Pork Dumplings. All delicious and served up hot!
I highly recommend it for good, fresh eats — and open until 2 am! All factors in what I like about a quality and delicious Asian style restaurant :)
I will be back — Happy Eating !

After being away for almost a week, I needed some dumplings. I had the shrimp and the pork with shrimp dumplings. They were pretty good. My honey makes better ones, but she was 280
miles away. Also tried the chive pancakes, and they were excellent, as good as I have had in the 626, If I found myself in Las Vegas again, I would return, and try other dishes.

The food portions are good for the price, able to order a few different doshes to try.
Service — not bad, the servers were quick to get our orders in and the wait wasn’t too long for our food to be served. When we asked for extra plates and utensils, they brought it to us quickly and even came back to make sure everything was good.
Food — overall tasted great. Fried dumplings tasted good, the meat was chewy and flavored well. Fried perfectly and not sticking to each other. Shanghai dumplings were OK, pork meat was soft, soup was inside, but the skin was a little thicker than it should be. Fried Chicken Wings was not what we expected, it had a hint of sour, either lime or vinegar, it’s a taste we have to get used to.
We’ll come back to try other dishes that was interesting!

This place focuses on dumpling and variations of dumplings such as steamed xiao long bao, pot stickers. And they execute dumplings very well indeed. I’ve also had teriyaki chicken which was very good. Sauce tasted like home made. The grilled chicken is drenched in teriyaki sauce, so I’ll ask for light sauce next time.
Their boba drinks are made with real fruit (Saw them cut up a huge watermelon for my smoothie), so to find a few seeds in my drink is really no big deal. Unlike a Unilocaler who gave them 1 star because she found a seed in hers — sounds like someone being a PITA (pain in the a**.) Anyways the teas /​smoothies are made with fruits, they are excellent, go get them.

OK, expensive for what it is: works out to about $ 1 per dumpling, but holy cow these things are delicious.
I’d highly recommend the shrimp dumplings (pan-​fried) and the pork+shrimp dumplings (also pan-​fried).
Some in my party enjoyed the red bean bubble tea as well. The plan was to snack hard and that’s it. And this is a great place to do that. Probably wouldn’t ever settle down for a full meal here — it reminds me of a Taiwanese rest stop diner where you don’t really want to spend too much time there, you’re better off doing the eat ‘n’ run thing…
Bathroom is pretty gross, not super gross, but disappointingly typical of a Chinatown bathroom. Come on Fat Dumpling, clean up your WC — people remember that shit.

The food is mediocre, prices are ok.
Stopped here because we wanted to get a quick snack. Ordered 14 cabbage and pork dumplings and a boba milk tea. The food came out pretty quickly but the taste was very lacking. The boba was kind of hard and not very fresh. The dumplings had really thick doughy she’ll with a small amount of filling. Tasted like the frozen ones from the freezer at 99 ranch market.
The tables are also not very clean.

For some reason, I thought this place would be Taiwanese/​mandarin noodle shop like Noodle Pot on the next block.
I ordered beef noodle soup. My family got wonton noodle soup, phở, xiao long bao & green onion pancake. Yes, phở! The beef noodle soup was very herbal yet good. My child was happy with phở but I thought that was kind of odd. Xiao long bao, pork dumpling didn’t seem that authentic. Usually it’s very soupy but it was pretty dry.
They have a full menu of boba drinks. I also ordered Jasmine milk tea which was pretty good.
Service was ok. The server didn’t seem to care if we wanted water or hot tea even though the next table got hot tea right away.

Had some time before going to catch our flight home and didn’t want airport food. Dumplings were the the craving so we headed to Chinatown Fat Dumpling. No other customers was there before and after we finished 6 pm.
Drinks no boba were good.
Huge bowl of Hot and Sour soup (some of the lotus stem roots were left on)
String beans were good
pork and chive dumplings were good.
This place has a large menu maybe if they made a couple of items well they would get better reviews. Service was excellent since we were the only customers.

I’m looking to mark as many boba places off my list and find the best in Las Vegas. Serving up smoothies, milk teas, and other food items I did not try I came here for boba.
Their milk tea offerings are not a huge selection. After browsing for a few minutes I decided on a taro milk tea which was more like a thinned out taro slush. I don’t think there was tea in it. It was flavorful and had bits of taro in it. Boba was standard soft chewy and a bit mushy. Next time I’d like to try a smoothie since they add fresh fruit in their smoothies. If I do decide to come back but I’m not too sure I will. The cashier/​hostess was quite rude and the place was dead. Maybe it’s a sign. You’ve been warned.

Whyyyyyyy whhyyyy fat dumpling? Why you gotta do me dirty like that?! We could have had something special.
My boyfriend and I are hard core boba heads and we just needed our fix tonight. Being that it’s our first time here, we even went as far as buying 3 drinks total between the 2 of us. You really let us down! Weak flavor, mushy boba, whack customer service — all terrible.
Here’s the story:
I ordered the lemon honey green tea with half boba. Man, I didn’t expect it to come out with the whole lemon, seeds, bitter rind, pulp and all. The wide boba straw slurped up all of the seeds every time I would take a sip. I choked on a few. Then I decided I couldn’t go through with it, it just didn’t taste right, and brought the drink back to the counter.
The guy was not having it. He told us that the drink is not for us to taste, but for us to buy… Whaaa? Wait huh? Accent or no accent, those are some fighting words mister. He then said he would pick out the seeds for us. Ugh. No, the drink tastes weird mister. It’s not good. At all.
He said he would not exchange the drink out for something else. We had to stand at the counter for a while and firmly tell him that we would like to have the almond milk tea instead, that the the lemon seeds were horrible. After a few minutes of going back and forth he then tried to exchange it out for a small almond milk tea with no boba. Lol. This guy is a character. So stingy!
In the end he gave in and we got the almond milk tea with boba — woohoo an even (embarrassing) exchange.
To my dismay, the drink tasted like a lot of hatred went into it. My almond milk tea tasted like pure powdered thick milk. That’s the flavor I got. Why you gotta hate to hard?
Not to mention the other 2 drinks we got: durian slush and red bean slush — were super watery! Icy slushy ice is what we ended up getting.
To be fair: they were clean inside, had a huge menu (they even have a vietnamese menu!) the drinks were cheap, not a sugar bomb, and they are open late!
Sorry fat dumpling. Your antics are too much for me to handle. I don’t want to hate a hater, but you’s terrible!

Time for an update and an upgrade. Since discovering this place a few months ago I’ve found myself coming here quite often and pretty much anytime I’m craving a boba drink or fruit smoothie. Their drinks are the best in town and for the price ($ 3.50−4.00 avg for medium) you really can’t beat it in quality, especially because they use fresh fruit in their smoothies. I’ve never had a bad drink here and their consistency is what keeps me coming back. My favorite drinks here are their mango smoothie and taro milk tea. Don’t forget to grab a stamp card to take advantage of their Buy 10 Get 1 Free offer, although you can only choose from the medium tea drinks when you redeem a free one. Medium is the recommended size because the large is pretty big unless you’re drinking on an empty stomach or sharing.
I haven’t actually eaten an actual meal here in a while but regularly get orders of their popcorn chicken, which is probably the best I’ve had in town for the $ 5.50 price point. It’s always made fresh so it might take about 10 minutes to get it. I’ve also had their dumplings and green onion pancake and they were really good. I like the thick skin on the dumplings so they don’t break as easily. 1 order of dumplings is 14 pieces, but they now also have a smaller order of 8 which is good so you can try other things on the menu as well. The green onion pancake is freshly fried, greasy and crispy and for only $ 2.50, it’s a yummy good deal. They also sell phở now which is a little weird because the owners and staff are Chinese and the rest of their menu is Chinese/​Taiwanese.
The only thing I wish they could do better is their service since they usually only have 1 server, who also doubles as the cashier and is usually 1 of 2 teenage looking guys who sometimes seem like they have no idea what they’re doing. As long as the older lady makes your drink, you’ll have one of consistent quality. There was only 1 time where 1 of the kids made my drink and I felt like it wasn’t as good and I got less boba than usual.

I was meeting up with a friend who proudly tried a recipe from a cookbook called «Natural Harvest». Somehow looking up «Jesus jizz» on Reddit (that yielded to no result) got us so hungry and thirsty.
Strawberry Banana Chocolate Smoothie:
I got this with boba. This is one of my favorite flavor combos. Equal parts of delicious strawberry, chocolate and banana. The black balls were soft in the mouth. Mmmm… ⁴⁄₅
Thai Milk Tea:
As if a big cup of smoothie wasn’t enough, I also had to try the Thai tea boba milk tea — I love this stuff. This was a bit too sweet though. ³⁄₅
Pork and Cabbage Dumplings:
You can either get 8pcs or 14pcs. Make your own dipping sauce. I’ll give the sauce I made 5 stars (self love). The dumplings were a bit doughy but it has lots of hot steamy juices so it’s understandable. The filling was tasty. ³⁄₅
Beef Noodle Soup:
The noodles were thick like chow mein… maybe, it WAS chow mein. They’re a bit generous with the beef chunks and chopped Chinese cabbage. This reminds me more of Filipino beef mami than the mildly spicy Chinese/​Taiwanese beef noodle soup. If this was sold to me as beef mami then I’d give it 4 stars but since it’s beef noodle soup…2/5
Usually, the restaurants in this strip mall are packed. This one was pretty dead the entire 4 – 5 hours we were there.

This is my new go-​to place for bubble tea. I think that the value for the price and quality is better than most places here in Vegas. I’ve been here a few times and while it hasn’t been consistent most of the time, this is the place where I would frequently visit for my boba needs.
It’s a fairly new spot that’s been open for a few months. I’ve gotten turned in this place by the recommendation of some Unilocaler buddies. It’s located on spring mountain next to lees sandwiches.
Popcorn chicken — a Taiwanese speciality, the one at fat dumpling is nice and crispy on the outside, and moist and juicy in the center with an interesting seasoning. They give you an OK amount for the price, but I think they should give more.
Smoothies — order the jumbo size. It’s the best deal in town. It’s the Big Gulp of bubble teas. All of the fruit they use are real. The tea also has good flavor as well. I’ve never found boba quality as high as Half & Half tea house in LA, but… It’s good here. Sometimes a lil bit too soft, but better than a lot of places in Vegas. My total for a jumbo smoothie with boba was 5.14, not too sha-​bay!
What’s also great is that they are open later than most places. While most of them close between 8:30 to 10pm on the weekdays, this place closes at midnight. The same time the werewolves come out…