Short Summary: Generic potstickers and dumplings in a generic setting. Better than your average mall food, but you can do better at Hilldale.
Everyone who works on this blog is majorly into dumplings, tacos, and just about anything else in a dough wrapper, so it's a wrench to give a dumpling-focused restaurant the thumbs-down. But none of us found much to recommend the Dumpling Haus.
"Bejing Style Dumplings" top the menu, and we tried the house ("haus") varieties steamed and fried ("stickers"). There's a little round ball of ground pork and spices in the center, pretty much like you'd get at any Chinese buffet. The wrappers were gummy and bland. Frying gave the potsticker version a little more crunch, but they were so dripping in brown grease that it didn't help much. Even our dedicated unhealthy-foods-lover (Geoffrey) couldn't get into them.
The "Haus Bao Zi" puts the same filling in a thicker, mushier dough. It sticks to your teeth less and is a little more filling. You also get less of them, so it all about balances out. The "taco style" they offer is probably your best bet, since you get a slightly more balanced dough-to-filling ratio that way.
We'd like to love this place as a shopping mall secret, but we can't. It's forgettable Chinese food court fare, and it can't stack up to some of the other offerings at Hilldale.
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