Frisco | January 2025

Dining

BY KAREN CHANEY

Jacob Jiang opened Dumpling House with his wife Dan Jiang in Frisco in 2020 o Preston Road.

Chicken mushroom dumplings are available steamed ($11.99) or fried ($16.99) .

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Dumpling House nds success in niche market As the manager of Dumpling House, which his wife Dan Jiang owns, Jacob Jiang said his favorite thing about his job is making new friends.

Sesame chicken lunch special ($11.99) includes hot sour soup, rice and eggroll.

What’s on the menu? Dan is the head chef and comes in everyday to make sauces and menu items. “Dumplings are our traditional food. Every fam- ily in northern China knows how to make them,” Jacob said. “We know how to make them right. We make fresh dumplings, we don’t do frozen.” Dumplings can be ordered steamed, pan fried or boiled. The restaurant also oers traditional Chinese restaurant menu options such as Kung Pao chicken and Szechuan beef. “If you keep good quality, people will always think about you,” Jacob said. “They say, ‘when I want to eat dumplings, I always choose Dumpling House.’”

When Jacob Jiang was 21 years old, he moved to California from China and worked at his parents’ Chinese restaurant. In 2009, he and Dan moved to Frisco and opened Dumpling House in Plano in 2015 followed by a Frisco location in 2020. The inspiration Jacob said they could have opened a Chinese restaurant but decided to ll a food void. “We tried to do something unique, because there were a lot of Chinese food [restaurants],” Jacob said.

3231 Preston Road, Ste. 1, Frisco www.dumplinghousetx.com

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