Ilpumhyang 일품향

The dumplings are the lean kind with almost no juice, and opinion splits on them. Fried dumplings come ten to a plate, their thick wrappers crisp like a cracker rather than greasy, and the boiled ones keep an old-fashioned aroma. The praise gathers instead around nanjawansu, flattened fried meatballs in sauce, and the five-spice pork, which comes with zha cai and cucumber and goes well with Chinese liquor. The salty cucumber side dish on every table is good to pick at between dumplings.