My Neighbours The Dumplings, London E9: ‘Delicious bedlam’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent

The food at this new dumpling joint achieves the same scrumptious heights as at its sister restaurant – but get there early

Restaurant names are important; they lure or repel. My Neighbours The Dumplings sounds like a post-post-punk group featuring Jah Wobble and ex-members of Gang of Four. It also sounds like a disrespectful jibe about the people over the fence post-Christmas.

But My Neighbours The Dumplings, which opened in Clapton, east London, some years back, and which has recently opened a second, roomier restaurant in Victoria Park, Hackney, is in fact named after the 1998 cult Japanese anime film My Neighbour Toroto. That has to be the most impudently east-London thing I’ll write in 2019, but there are 11 weeks left.