Fremont’s nascent downtown got a must-anticipated boost with the late August opening of Din Ding Dumpling House. Just a few doors down from Banter Bookshop and across from the Fremont Hub Shopping Center, the family-owned restaurant has already attracted many customers, and hopefully gained some new fans.
Yelp reviewers praised the large portions across dishes and the thin skin and juicy filling on the soup buns—xiaolongbao, but abbreviated to XLB. (Sometimes the table can get crowded if you order too many at one time, but it’s a good problem to have.) In addition to a menu with a range of options for dumplings, noodles and appetizers, the restaurant does moon cake boxes in the fall and special promotional buns for Lunar New Year themed around that year’s animal.
It’s a happy return for the business, as their previous Fremont location in Walnut Plaza sustained damage in a fire—and a much-anticipated one as well, as fans on the restaurant’s social media expressed impatience to see the new Fremont location open its doors. The business has one other location, on Decoto Road in Union City.
An introductory video on Din Ding Dumpling’s website says, “In everyone’s heart, there is a memory of a delicious meal. It doesn’t change with time, and it stays in the mind.” For Fremont fans who have had dim sum on their mind for three years, it’s a happy development to see the loved business replanted in the developing downtown area.
Din Ding Dumpling House Fremont, 3768 Capitol Ave., Ste J, Fremont. (510) 797-8122. dindingdumplinghouses.com
