🥟 Best dumplings in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best dumplings. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Gold Coast has Australia’s strongest dumplings — led by Yumpling Dumplings (5★ across 221 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best dumplings	Rating	Reviews
1	Gold Coast	Yumpling Dumplings Molendinar	5★	221
2	Adelaide	Mandoo CBD	4.7★	1,069
3	Melbourne	HuTong CBD	4.1★	2,328
4	Sunshine Coast	Dee Den Restaurant Buderim	4.8★	2,205
5	Cairns	Malatang Noodles Cairns City	4.8★	2,016
6	Wollongong	Lee's Dumpling 小李汤包 Haymarket	4.7★	2,555
7	Canberra	CBD Dumpling House CBD	4.2★	1,833
8	Newcastle	Light Years - Newcastle CBD	4.7★	1,632
9	Perth	Fortune Five Chinese Restaurant Northbridge	4.3★	1,540
10	Geelong	The Arborist CBD	4.7★	1,125
11	Brisbane	Little Red Dumpling Carseldine Carseldine	3.8★	374
12	Darwin	Nonna dumplings Darwin City	4.8★	318
13	Hobart	Pot Sticker Dumpling House - Hobart CBD	4.4★	865
14	Sydney	Laneway Dumplings and Momo CBD	4.6★	641

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own dumplings ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Gold Coast · Adelaide · Melbourne · Sunshine Coast · Cairns · Wollongong · Canberra · Newcastle · Perth · Geelong · Brisbane · Darwin · Hobart · Sydney.