Eat
McDumpling.
Pork-and-chive potstickers, still hissing. Not yum cha.
Location
What people get wrong
MC means My Chinese Dumpling. Potstickers, not yum cha. Restaurant Guru hedges maybe-closed. Uber Eats still lists 106 Hopkins. Call (03) 9191 6511. We last walked this on 2026-09-20. Hours move with the week. Checking the shopfront keeps the night easy.
What is Mc Dumpling known for?
Mc Dumpling is known for pan-fried pork-and-chive potstickers in a bright Hopkins takeaway that borrowed a fast-food look on purpose. You walk in from the market edge and the room does not bother with lanterns. Fluorescent, a counter, stools if you wanted to sit, a bag if you did not. Consider the Sauce, December 2017, named the joke and then the method: MC means My Chinese Dumpling, and the franchise fascia was the process, not a mistake. Bright, clean, brisk service, cheap dumplings. The plate was the argument.
You are not walking into a critic's palace. Time Out's Footscray lists we last walked do not give this door a card. Broadsheet does not. Good Food does not send a crawl here. The press that exists is a west-side blog on opening week and a March 2019 plate diary that stayed for the Sichuan mains. That is enough to eat with. The suburb uses 106 for a hissing bag between Golden Horse trolleys at 81 and Nhu Lan at 116, or instead of both.
The dumplings are small on purpose. Opening week they were steamed pork and chive, sixteen to a plate, dainty, juicy, not much chive in the bite. The live delivery board is pan-fried pork and chive, fifteen pieces, the chive louder. Mandarin and English both work at the counter. Directory cards still point at Facebook under mychinesedumpling. The Google business site 404s. There is no polished house page in this directory. You order, you wait, you leave with grease on the paper.
Some people bounce. A thin dumpling list for a shop that put dumpling in the name. A pork-and-chive that tastes like lawn to one table and like home to the next. Tripadvisor still files diners who skipped the fascia for years because it looked like a franchise, then ate the pan-fry and stayed. That split is the room. This is a Hopkins takeaway, not a revival speech.
What should you order at Mc Dumpling?
Order the pan-fried pork-and-chive potstickers if you came for the house default. Uber Eats still prints them as A1, fifteen pieces of pork and chive, the most-liked line by a mile. Delivery tills are not the street till. Do not recite 2017's nine dollars. Ask what the pan is doing. If the chive is a wall, say so before they bag fifteen.
Chicken and prawn is the second plot, boiled or pan-fried, twelve pieces. Recurring notes: a burst of liquid, the dumpling that behaves like a soup dumpling without the ceremony. Beef and onion, fifteen, is the other pan-fry people keep naming. Lamb was leek in 2017 and onion on later boards. Confirm the filling. Vegetarian pan-fry and boiled plates exist if the table needed them. Tripadvisor regulars still talk about a chilli-sesame oil and soy that lands with the plate. Bring vinegar if that is how you eat jiaozi. The house is not a condiment lecture.
Then decide whether this was a dumpling stop or a Chinese meal. BBQ pork buns, two to an order, keep showing up as the bun people actually like. Spring onion pancake. Pumpkin cakes, six, sweet and crisp, the snack diners warn you about. Mapo tofu with minced pork and spicy duck in a Sichuan wok sit on the same board as Singapore noodles and chicken fried rice. Foodtrip, March 2019, stayed for fish fillet in hot chilli soup and a spicy griddle of pork intestines, then shrugged at tofu and vegetables in Sichuan sauce. Chicken ribs were a free opening extra in 2017, well fried, no chicken taste. Do not hunt the freebie.
Takeaway is the format. Sit if there is a stool. Walk if you were already mid crawl toward Nhu Lan. This is not a trolley sitting. Golden Horse is 81 Hopkins if you wanted steamers on a cart. Evening is when delivery copy says the orders pile up. A lunch bag is quieter and still the same pan. Cook to order is the promise. A cold bag from yesterday is not.
Hours, payment and queues at Mc Dumpling
Quoted hours disagree: daily about 10:30am to 9:30pm on several cards, 11am starts on others, or a lunch window then dinner on Uber Eats. Restaurant Guru hedges maybe-closed and prints Monday shut. Uber Eats still lists 106 Hopkins with thousands of ratings. Call (03) 9191 6511. Last checked 2026-09-20.
Walk-in. Cards are normal on Hopkins counters. Do not assume a fifteen-piece bag needed cash. Queues are short compared with Nhu Lan. If the shutter is down, that is the publisher. Do not invent a second dumpling house on Barkly from a 2017 post.
Public holidays shuffle Chinese rooms whether a widget says so or not. If you wanted yum cha and dumplings in one walk, check Golden Horse first. Their 2023 close already taught this street not to trust last year's open sign. Pair this counter with a bakery that is actually trading.
How do you get to Mc Dumpling in Footscray?
You get to Mc Dumpling by walking Hopkins from Footscray station to 106, a street number between the market-complex yum cha and Nhu Lan, not a shop-in-shop. Look for the fast-food dumpling fascia, not a roast-duck window and not a baguette queue. Mappaus puts the Leeds Street tram stop for the 223 and 406 about thirty metres away.
Irving deck if you already parked for the market. Hopkins bays are short. Do not test a 2P through a sit you did not need. Eat on the street or take the bag. After dark stay on Hopkins. Nicholson Mall is not the night cut.
Uber Eats copy sometimes files this shop under Seddon West. That is delivery-zone noise. The door is Footscray 3011, 106 Hopkins. Do not get off at Seddon. Hung Vuong at 128 is pho, closed Wednesday. You can walk dumplings then pho. You should still name this door as dumplings.
What do people mix up about Mc Dumpling?
They treat the fascia as yum cha, or as McDonald's, or as a Seddon address, or as a corpse because an aggregator hedged maybe-closed.
- 106 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Phone (03) 9191 6511.
- MC means My Chinese Dumpling. Potstickers, not trolleys.
- Golden Horse at 81 Hopkins is the yum cha room.
- Hours and closed stamps disagree. Call. Look at the shutter.
- Not Seddon. Delivery copy is not an address.
Questions people ask next
- Where is Mc Dumpling?
- Mc Dumpling is at 106 Hopkins Street, Footscray VIC 3011. Footscray station is the nearest train. Golden Horse yum cha is 81 Hopkins. Nhu Lan is 116. This door is a street number, not a market stall.
- What are Mc Dumpling hours?
- Directories disagree: about 10:30am-9:30pm daily, or 11am starts, or split lunch and dinner on Uber Eats. One aggregator prints Monday closed. Call (03) 9191 6511. Last checked 2026-09-20.
- Is Mc Dumpling permanently closed?
- Restaurant Guru hedges maybe-closed. Uber Eats still lists 106 Hopkins with thousands of ratings, and Google notes from mid-2026 still describe a dumpling order. We are not declaring the door dead from an aggregator. Look at the shutter.
- Is Mc Dumpling the same as Golden Horse yum cha?
- No. Golden Horse at 81 Hopkins is trolleys, har gow, roast duck in the window. Mc Dumpling at 106 is pan-fried potstickers and a Chinese takeaway board. Same street, different job.
Where we checked
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