Dump City Dumplings

I have a love-​hate relationship with this cart. The first time I ever had it, I was drunk off my horse and it was incredible. The next time I was stone cold sober and it was kind of meh. The next time, sober and starving, pretty good. The time after, sober and starving after a long day of work in the cold, amazing. The price is right and the 4-​cheese pizza is pretty good.

Delicious dumplings, nice people, awesome sauces. Wish I heard of them sooner because i have been missing out for a while!

The most amazing things on earth! I go out of my way to get these whenever I can. Friendly and caring staff as well.

If dump city is near I go! Awesome dumplings I am vegan and get the pad thai! Nomnomnom! ! !
:-) great staff

Great local option for steamed bun dumplings! Fresh and Tasty w 3 options: Classic Pork, Pad Thai, and Chz Pizza. Go for the first two with all the sauces.

I guess I’m not a fan of these dumplings. Not sure what to say other than I just don’t like them.
Big mouth full of dough, sparse fillings just not that exciting for me.

Fillings ok. The dough was not cooked, took it back and the guy just gave me cold shoulder. Will never be back. Very disappointing.

Food = 3
Price = 3
Experience = 3
Pork dumpling are the best…

My first impression of Dump City was not a favorable one in the cleanliness department. I do hope that their practices behind the scenes are better than those presented to me last night at Octoberfest. A couple friends and I approached the booth in the 8 — 9pm hour Saturday evening to find the person supposedly serving the fare chatting up a friend. As he is finishing his conversation prior to acknowledging us he is casually rubbing his vinyl gloved hand up and down the shock supporting the open window. One of my friends and I notice this immediately but chose to try the dumplings for our first time anyhow, hoping there will be a glove change. We are greeted by a flippant «there are the flavors», pointing at the counter where short menu descriptions are displayed, then left alone again as a friend of his appears at the rear of the booth with a large beverage container of some sort which he grabs with both vinyl gloved hands and takes a nice swig. Returning his attention to us, his customers, we order a couple dumplings, more reluctantly considering how many things besides food his gloved hands are touching by the minute. After we place our order he moves behind the booth to retrieve a couple containers which hold uncooked dumplings I presume as he loads a steamer basket touching the raw product with his touch everything gloves. After waiting for him to load the dumplings he moves to another basket and removes our hot dumplings, again with his amazing touch anything gloves, and presents them to us. we pay with cash which he receives willingly with those wonderful gloves. I, for unknown reasons to my better judgment conscious, eat the dumpling (I’m hungry) which has very good flavor. Had the service experience not been so unsettling I may return for another try. As of now I am awaiting the Montezuma’s Revenge that is most likely on the way after such haphazard cleanliness practices. Please all you service persons out there, wearing gloves does not abdicate you from proper food handling practices. Best of luck DCD but I will not return any time soon.

We were driving on a 16-​hour road trip and Bend was our dinner spot. We scoured Unilocal,followed a lead, which was a dead end since the spot we picked was only lunch. We literally stumbled on this oasis of food.
Having lived in Japan, it immediately flooded warm memories of hot dumplings of all different flavors at 7−11s. Of course Japan is very season centric, and these can only be devoured in the dead of winter.
Anyhow, we ordered the pizza, Chinese pork, and Pad Thai flavors… all were delicious and we ate six between the two of us… the Labrador was anxiously aspiring for crumbs to drop… he was out of luck!
Thanks for a welcome fast food which sated our souls on a long drive!

Delicious! Flavorful! Fun!
Three words that pop into my head when I was eating my Dump City Dumplings. I ordered a Pad Thai dumpling and a four cheese pizza dumpling. I tried a few sauces with them (I don’t remember which), and I was thoroughly impressed!

The BD and I bought two of each dumplings (4 different ones) which cost $ 20 all together.
My qualms about the baos here are:
— there seems to be a higher ratio of dough to meat.
— the insides are pretty dry and sauce — less.
— which leads to the dipping sauces. They could be useful but DCD doesn’t carry any containers for you to put these sauces in, so either bring your own togo containers or you can clumsily make ones out of the thin pieces of foil he gives you. Or you can eat right there in front of the cart. BD is a sauce man so it was kind of annoying.
— The baos didn’t seem to be cooked through or something… it had a very strong raw smell.
1. Mediterranean lamb — this one was my favorite. It was minced lamb with some herbs (mint/​rosemary?). it was a little dry and would have been wonderful with a creamy tzaziki sauce or something.
2. Chinese pork — very high on the sesame oil but still tasty.
3. Pizza — four different cheeses but we took the baos togo and by the time we got home (about 12 mins later) the cheese inside turned into rubber. It was tasty but texturally it was like eating the rubber off the bottom of your shoes. The dough was noticeably doughier.
4. My absolute least favorite was the pad thai. I don’t even know what was in there except thin vermicelli noodles that tasted nothing like pad thai. In fact there wasn’t much taste at all.
BD didn’t care for any of them… he tried them all but threw most of it away. I think about the African kids so I like to clean the plate, out of guilt, which is not a good thing when you’re trying to lose weight, but that’s another story.
The guy behind the cart was really friendly. He was saying hello to everyone that passed him by and it was a very cold and snowy night. Stars go to him.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to find DCD cart unless I was really drunk from a bar and I chose to eat my baos right then and there where it’s hopefully a lot hotter and tastier.

I got nervous when I heard pizza dumpling, but I did enjoy the pork one. Its doughy and not fried and filled with tender meat and tons of dipping sauces. Pad thai dumpling was also good. Two for 5 bucks. Two are plenty for a full meal. And two were plenty for sampling and sharing cut in quarters with chopsticks.
Curious about other flavor options.
Kudos for Bend in following the PDX food cart scene.

My honey brought some home after a sampling, preparing to use them for an upcoming company event. Anything that tastes that good cold & after the fact has to be amazing hot off the grill. Cant wait to have it again.

Dumplings have never been very appealing to me — they look like a ball of paste and there is usually a mysterious mutton like substance that emerges when you least expect it. However, given assurances from the dumpling street vendor in Bend Oregon that the pad thai dumpling (in addition to the four cheese pizza dumpling and some sort of kale concoction) in his bamboo steamer vendor apparatus was not of this variety, the decision was made to march forward into the unknown.
The pad thai dumpling was steamed with a peanutty noodle filling which was all very fine but the crowning achievement of the dumpling man was the variety of sauces at hand: several types of hot sauce, a teriyaki sauce and some sort of ketchup type substance. After testing all of these on their own it was determined that the combination of them all was the best and the final bites of this particular ball of paste were quite good.
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For clarification, these are the bao-​style dumplings, not the dimsum/​potsticker kind. They were out of pork so we tried the lamb and ostrich. Lots of dipping sauces to choose from and the outside is nice and soft.

My friends and I drove by this place, looked at each other and turned around with a screech. The idea of warm dumplings was too much to resist (even though if memory served we’d eaten a couple hours before).
Nice soft dumplings with delicious filling. I tried a bite of the pizza one, the Pad Thai, Southwestern chicken and the sausage and cheese (probably my favorite thus far). I think I would need at least 3 or 4 for a full meal which would be 10.00, but then again I’m a big eater. There was an array of sauces as well to pair with each flavor.
My only complaint was that I brought a couple home with me for my boyfriend to try and the paper boat thing that to hold them stuck to the bottoms, so by the time I got them home about an hour later and scraped them into bowls they were deconstructed dunplings. Still delicious, but the bottom dumpling wrapper was toast. I think if the boats were made of a more waxy substance they wouldn’t stick? Of course at night downtown most people are scarfing them down immediately and it doesn’t matter…

These are some pretty fine dumplings. Huddled in the cold on the corner by the US Bank downtown, these guys do pretty darn good work, steaming up some unusual and not so unusual bao-​style dumplings hot and fresh to order for as little as $ 2.50 each.
I’ve tried the pad Thai (a brilliant idea if I’ve ever heard one), the Chinese pork (stuffed with cabbage and veggies and soooo good), the Mediterranean lamb (not my favorite, not fond of the mint, but good with some hot sauce), the Southwest-​style Chicken (absolutely killer with some Frank’s Red Hot), and the pizza (which was strange, but cheesy and delicious).
If you’re in the mood for some cheap eats in Bend, this is a must stop, especially late. This is the kind of fast food we need in this country. Food carts forever!

This is a foodcart, usually on the corner of Bond and Oregon. I’ve had a couple different dumplings, and they are very delicious; steamy and well-​made. A good selection of sauces too.
A notable gripe however: to be a viable lunch option, this cart needs to have something like foil or containers available. A big reason why Soupçon and Sancho are such popular foodcarts is that lunch breakers and those downtown can grab something to go, or pickup food for the whole office. Not here. Dumplings loose in a fry boat are very inconvenient if i’m walking a few blocks or driving back to work to eat. There’s not even little containers for sauces, so either I’m eating my dumplings right there in front of the cart, or I’m getting my lunch somewhere else.

These guys have a little dumpling cart in downtown Bend and their dim sum really hits the spot. We tried vegetable ones and some beef I think, it was back in July. They said they were going to make ones with fresh local ostrich. I can’t wait to try them again next time I’m in Bend. Check em out!