The dumplings at this place were really quite average and disappointing. The flavours were pretty bland and only tasted decent with sauce. Definitely not one of the good places for dumplings.

Lok Lok Dumpling Bar is the new kid on the block in terms of food restaurants inside Rhodes Shopping Centre. Seeing a big crowd gathering and the restaurant name being my nephew's Name in Chinese, had to come and see what the hype was about.

This place has fresh dumplings of all kinds - pan fried, Hong Kong Style, Shanghai style,vegetarian and dumplings with soup, all made fresh and on site. Other dishes on the menu include stir fries, rice and their tasty hand made noodles.

This place was packed and so popular with other diners but we found a table and squeezed ourselves onto it. Grabbed a menu and we ordered the special pan fried pork buns $10.80 for 8 pieces, pan fried chicken dumplings $9.50 for 8 pieces, 4 pieces of steamed prawn dumplings (har gao) $6.80 for the kids, pork and prawn siu mai $6.80 for 5 pieces and some handmade rice noodles with beef for $10.80 - all this was to share amongst our family of 4. So I was given a buzzer after ordering and paying at the counter. Complimentary chopsticks, chilli sauce, soy sauce, vinegar , plastic cutlery all available to eat with your meal. Dumplings all came out within 20minutes and I was quite suprised at how big they looked , thought they would only be tiny, which was good as we were all hungry. Dumplings were moist and juicy, very flavoursome, loved the pork ones. Before long the noodles were ready,both kids enjoyed this.

Overall a great experience, food was great and didn't take long to arrive hot and fresh from the kitchen, service was quick, will be back for more. Not hard to see why this place is so popular... try and avoid lunchtime peak hour as it's a mad house!

Approximate cost: $6.80 +