Restaurant Review: Dumpling Inn

Still from our San Diego trip, this time we asked a friend who lives in San Diego for her restaurant’s recommendation. One of many that she recommended was the Dumpling Inn. At first, we didn’t intend to go to this restaurant, just because it wasn’t nearby the hotel that we stayed at. After our long day in the San Diego Zoo, we thought that we should just tried nearby restaurant.

My friend, Heru, told me to try Phil’s BBQ, but we failed to do so, because the line was so long and we were starving. So we thought, we better hurry up and go to Dumpling Inn instead. After a 15 minutes drive, we got to Dumpling Inn, there was a line in front of the restaurant but it wasn’t as long as Phil’s. I put my name down and waited for 40 minutes. Yup, I never waited this long for a restaurant, but everything that people ordered in the restaurant looked so good, that we decided to stay.

The restaurant is really small. Close by the restaurant there is a Korean Market. We finally got our seats 20 minutes before the restaurant closed. We were very hungry and ordered a lot of food. Unfortunately, I failed to write down the price for each one of them. We asked for 2 orders of Xiao Lung Bao (Steam Pork Bun), 1 bowl of Lo Mien Noodle with 4 Ingredients (it comes with shrimp, pork, beef and chicken meat), 1 order of Jelly Fish and 1 order of Salt and Pepper Fried Calamari.

Restaurant Review: Albert’s Restaurant - San Diego Zoo

As some of you might have already knew, this year, we celebrated our anniversary in San Diego. We were trying to keep our tradition to spend our getaways in any cities starting with the letter ‘B’ (Honeymoon in Bangkok, 1st Anniversary in Bogor and 2nd Anniversary in Bandung). But we weren’t able to find nearby city that starts with ‘B’. So we thought, ok, let’s just go to San Diego which is like 2 hours driving. As part of our getaway, we decided to take Andrew to the San Diego Zoo. We left Santa Monica around 8.20AM and got there at 10.30AM. After a 45 minutes bus tour at the San Diego Zoo, we went straight to the restaurant to satisfy our starving tummy. From reading all the restaurants review in the Zoo, we picked Albert’s Restaurant.

It is a fine dining restaurant, where at the outside seats surrounded with the view of the zoo trails and a small waterfall. They have kids menu that comes with choice of milk or soda. We ordered Jambalaya Pasta ($17) for me, Fisherman Stew ($21) for Arman and Azizi’s Dog ($7.45) for Andrew. While waiting for our orders, we were given some breads. The bread is really good, soft and newly baked.