Northern Cafe Dumpling House

I and my friends went here several times when I was still studying at UCLA. I really like the food here, especially the fish. The restaurant was not crowded, and it had a Chinese vibe

WORMS in the soup!!! This place is unsanitary and unethical on so many levels, do your health a favor and do not eat here. I use to be a loyal costumer ordering several times a month. Last week I placed a soup pick up order and to my surprise the soup was full of these tiny WORMS!!! I called them immediately and they offered another soup which I respectfully declined so they offered to void the charge instead. I got food poisoning and went to the hospital and the doctors told me to not it here ever again. The worst part , this place still charged me !!! Despite telling me other wise. I called to ask for a refund and they told me someone will call back. They never did. DO NOT EAT HERE if you care about your HEALTH.

The chicken noodle soup is BLAND, has no flavor whatsoever and tastes exactly like thick pieces of rubber cardboard and I’m NOT JOKING. I’m not even sure if that’s real chicken… Imagine driving from Culver City, spending $31 dollars to be disappointed. I also ordered the pan fried pork and cabbage dumplings and they were a 3/5. Nothing to come back for.

From Texas we have visited the first restaurant in L.A over our expection. That’s the reason pushes me to rate 5 stars immedately!! The food is wonderful. We ordered 3 plates Onion Pancake, Chingqing Spicy Chicken and Juicy Pork Dumplings which were all made fresh when we had ordered. The meat was fresh, food was hot but the wait time was less. The service is great and friendly. The guy was with the hair a bit long and wears glass really nice and ambitious. The other guy with yellow hair also nice. They were unique. You order and pay first at the counter. Then you can looking for the empty table to sit and enjoy your meal. —> Overall, the restaurant is clean, the servers are nice and the food is tasty. Would recommend and come back next time if visit L.A.

Went here to satisfy our dimsum cravings. We ordered the Scallion Pancake, Pork Wontons in Spicy Sauce, Juicy Pork & Crab Dumplings, and Shrimp, Egg, & Yellow Chive Dumplings. They had good portions and were reasonably priced. The wrapper on the soup dumpling was a little thicker for my liking, but nonetheless was still yummy. The spicy sauce was so good that I dipped all of the other dumplings in it, though the filling in the actual wonton itself was a little hard (?). Scallion pancakes were flaky and yummy.