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|129 E Street
|(Next to Sophia's Thai Kitchen) in Orange Court
As of January 25th 2022, Dumpling House is open again. Dumpling House was closed from March 2019 because its building is being remodeled after a non-Dumpling House related fire. They also have a Sacramento location and have been seen selling at the Davis Farmer's Market.
The Dumpling House is a Restaurant that serves dumplings, including vegetarian dumplings. It is owned by the same person as Davis Noodle City. The Dumpling House offers convenient and fast service for those needing to grab lunch and/or dinner. It's located downtown within easy walking from campus, with take out just a phone call away.
They still serve Fish n Chips and the deep fried snickers bars they were once known for. Alas, no Twinkies, though. They also now have wait service, instead of the counter service that the fish n' chips restaurant had.
Diners report that you can also buy frozen dumplings (no veggie or seafood) in bulk at a significant discount ($18.75 for 50 dumplings). This works out to $0.375 per bulk dumpling, compared to the $0.521 per dumpling at 12/$6.25 dine-in, or a 28% discount. Be sure to call ahead—they can't always fill a bulk order if you just drop by.
Here's a YouTube video of the owner forming her dumplings by hand.
The location became The Dumpling House on 2010-01-25. It was formerly London Fish'N Chips, and retains that name on at least one sign. Many items from the old menu can still be found at the Dumpling House. On 2010-01-31, they donated proceeds to relief for the 2010 Haiti earthquake disaster.
|Non-Dumpling Menu - incls. fish and chips
2010-01-26 16:14:15 I just ate there on opening day and the dumplings (the vegetarian are awesome) are delicious. Sunday (January 31st), they will be donating proceeds to Haitian relief so I plan to eat there again! By the way, they still serve Fish 'N Chips and they have very pleasant service and nice background music. —GarySaylin
2010-01-28 16:24:43 I ate there today, the inside decor is very nice and cozy. My waitress was very friendly and nice, I asked for her recommendation and she said the pork with chives dumplings. She gave me a little tray of spicy cucumber salad as an apetizer and gave me seconds when I asked for it. My dumplings came as a very big portion for $6.25 (12 dumplings). They were very tasty, the meat and ingredients tasted fresh and flavorful but not oversalted or sweetened. I really felt like I was tasting pork, chives, garlic, and ginger instead of msg, vinegar, salt and sugar. The dipping suace was very good, that added the before mentioned acid, salt, and sweetness I was needing. The noodle wrapping was very chewy and moist, man it was damn good. Overall this place is very nice, the service was great and it is a very cozy place, I would recommend it for a date on a budget. The portions are good enough to share, or eat all for yourself like I did. I have had the fish'n chips here in the past and I would not recommend them Update: I had the seafood dumplings and they are very tasty as well. The wrapping on the seafood dumplings is thinner than the pork and they are mostly chicken dabbled with shrimp and a bit of fish. I also had the calamari which was much less than unimpressive (bad). The calamari must be from the old fish n' chips menu because it tasted like something from Jack n' the box. It is not rings of whole calamari but chopped up bits clumped together and deep fried with too much batter. Stick with the dumplings and you will be very pleased. —DagonJones
2010-01-29 21:47:33 Ate there tonight with my partner. We had the above mentioned spicy cucumber salad, veggie wontons, veggie dumplings, and a broccoli dish. The dumplings were plentiful though a little on the bland side, the sauce that came with them helped a lot. The wontons were quite good, similar to but a bit better than the Davis Noodle City wontons, but by far the best dish was the broccoli, which maintained a nice crispness and was served with slivered almonds (blanched, maybe?) and baked garlic in a broth that may have contained a bit of butter or some other fat. All was combined with tremendously good service, even as our waitress seemed to be the only one working a busy Friday night. Highly recommended! —IAmNewHere
2010-01-30 20:20:47 Wow! This place is so good, and you get alot of dumplings for the money also. The cucumber salad and fried green onion bread were also very good. The waitress always kept our water filled and was great. I love the Anne Frank quote on the wall. I hope I go back soon! —NickSchmalenberger
2010-01-31 14:16:03 My wife and I recently ate here, our bill was about $20, and we ordered eggrolls, pork wontons, and basil-tomato chicken with noodles.
We recieved immediately a small spicy cucumber salad, which some varitation of should be on the menu, since somethng this simple and tasty should be consumed in larger quantities.
The eggrolls were amazing. They came six in an order for about $4, and were hot, crispy, lots of fresh ginger, some veggies. They were, doughy?, inside, but doughy in a very hot delicious way. My wife doesn't like eggrolls with lots of "stringy vegatables" in them, so she loved these; they are almost pastry.
My wife ordered pork wontons. Now, sometimes wontons are a little scary, cause who knows what the hell is in them? This thought often crosses her mind when ordering Chinese, but she is always willing to give a new place a shot, because she LOVES wontons. She is ordering these again next time we go. Enough said. Well, I do want to add that these are absolutely the heartiest wontons ever. The order is equal to ordering over a pound of cooked meat (about $6) and it is some of the best ground pork you will ever put in your mouth. It is juicy, fresh, and very porky. The flavor is very simple, not clouded with alot of spices, just PORK PORK PORK. It is served in very thin noodle wraps with a light gravy (wrong word, but closish). If you were a Chinese body builder, you would probably eat this every day. For its price, it is an incredible deal for the amount of sustenance and protien you get out of it, not to mention that THIS IS THE CLEANEST, PUREST PORK YOU WILL EVER SHOVE INTO YOU MOUTH. IT is close to God in its purity of form. Eat it.
I ordered the Basil-Tomato Chicken with noodles. Sometimes, something tastes so delicious, makes you feel so aware of the beauty in the world, like you are consuming art. This is a dish so wonderful, it will make you cry. And if that does not make you cry, the 80 pounds of chile peppers will. This dish is labelled on the menu as "hot, hot" (or maybe "spicy, spicy") and it is. When it first came to the table, all I could smell was peppers, all anyone could smell was peppers, which was amazing since I am tired of being told something is hot and barely having my eyes water. This stuff is plutonium. The amazing thing though, was behind the peppers, sneaking in through mist of crying eyes, was the basil and tomato, not part of the usual line up of Asian flavoring agents. But as they entered, so faint and undetectable at first, they grew in power, until you did not even notice the spicy, only the basil-y goodness. It turned into a dish, flavor wise, that was so unexpected. Where you are usually punched in the face by someone's tomato-basil sauce, some wannabe Italian chef who buys the bulk tomatoes and 2 pounds of Basil and thinks blending these two tired ingrediants is art, you have here a subtle application, a sneak attack, a creeping sweetness, a hint of herb, a play around the edges of fiery goo formed from peppers and flour, something that you would not imagine you would find on this continent, something only cooked somewhere dark and magical. The chicken itself, was cooked perfectly. It was dark meat, juicy, succulent, full of flavor, lightly coated in flour, NOT some battered and deep fired heart stopper, cooked to a golden glow, red, almost orange in the basil-tomato-pepper sauce. I told my wife after only a few bites that if I only ever ate chicken cooked like this, for the rest of my life, nothing else but this chicken, I would be so happy, that it would be far worth the sacrfice of every hollow, breast meat only orange chicken culture fuck sprayed out of Panda Express' orifice all over the face of Chinese Cuisine. (By the way, what is UP with this white meat fetish? Seriously, go dark, now, before it is too late, before you lose your culinary soul to blandness.) Anyways, simply, BEST, CHICKEN, EVER, go eat this, right now, stop reading (if you haven't already) and go get this.
IT is certainly worth saying as well, that the noodles which came under the chicken and were coated in the spicy delicious, mob of a sauce, were as good as fresh bread, not greasy at all, cooked perfectly, dense, doughy, and mouthwatering.
So far, the food I have had here is simply constructed, simple ingrediants, and very high quality, prepared in an obviously masterful way, portions that would make card carrying members of a Roman vomitorium blush, and an elagance and complication of taste, an ambiguous muddling of flavors that leaves you confused and enlightened, and ceratinly full and happy. I cannot wait to eat here again. Restaurants like this, food like this, is what being alive is for; this is art worth dining for.
2010-01-31 14:55:44 Tasty (I had basil chicken) and pretty good portion sizes. I would have preferred fresh basil to be cooked with the chicken, not dried, but I can't really complain with the price. It's no fancy Thai restaurant with a focus on basil. Very attentive service. Certainly one of the best values in downtown. —RyanMikulovsky
2010-01-31 15:32:23 Sounds great! That said, am I the only one who for some reason reads the name as "The Dumping House?" —rfrazier
2010-02-02 13:40:36 I'm shocked at all the great reviews here, maybe I went at a bad time? The food did not amaze me like it did everyone else. I came here with a friend to get dinner; we ordered the hot oil wontons, pork dumplings, onion bread, and a hot and sour soup. Hot and sour soup is one of my favorite soups to order at Chinese restaurants. The dumpling house's version should be relabeled as salty and spicy; it was not sour at all, instead it was like licking a salt rock. The onion bread was great, just like Noodle City's.
The dumplings and hot oil wontons are a bit off. I think they were good. However, when I noticed that the meat on the inside of both of these things were still pink it left me a little worried. Is this the way it's suppose to be? —ktru
Dont be scared, it is supposed to be pink. I have had a lot of dim sum from several places (some of them were even a bit creapy in San Francisco) the meat always seems to be a bit pink. I think it has something to do with the seasoning. -dagonjones
You've never had sausage that was pink? You've never had a medium rare steak? Pink with chicken is a no-no unless you are in Japan or some other place where you know the chicken is awesome. Pork, steak, and lamb are best pink. Say no to overcooked meat. http://www.chow.com/stories/10144 —CoffeeSnobDavis
2010-02-02 21:27:31 So my friend and I decided to eat here on sunday Jan 31st. We arrived around 1:30pm and it was actually a bit busy. We ordered the pork and chive dumplings as well as the pork and vegetable dumplings and chicken pot stickers.
We received the pork and vegetable dumplings first; it took them about 25 minutes to get to our table. These dumplings were a little bland, but the sauce they provided gave some taste to them. Then about 10 minutes afterwards the pork and chive dumplings came and they were pretty good. After waiting about 50 minutes total the pot stickers finally came and they were awful. It looked like they boiled them, but when they tried to fry them potentially they used to much oil and or the oil was not hot enough and so they were very oily and not even fried.
Overall I'd just get the pork and chive dumplings. They give a good amount about 10-12 and the size are pretty big. I foresee myself going here again just for the dumplings which are $6.25 which is good considering quicklys charges basically 5 bucks for 4 pieces of pot stickers.
2010-02-05 14:49:32 I just had lunch there today with some friends. It was a cozy restaurant and the waitress/server was extremely cute and nice and hospitable. I felt so at ease there because she cared for us and made sure we were good. I had the pork and vegetable dumplings while my two other friends had the seafood dumplings. We also ordered a dish of egg rolls. They have very large portions and the food comes out steaming hot (the place was literally steaming), and looked so appetizing. I took a bite into mine and yes, it was amazing. I've had authentic Chinese food before and so I'd like to say I know my dumplings too. And I am so glad that this place opened up because they were delicious! My friends agreed as well. The dumpling wraps were cooked so it was soft, but not falling apart. The pork was hearty! They weren't bland, but they weren't overpowering. It had a crisp clean taste. It was definitely filling and the sauce that comes with it complemented the dumplings so well. The wraps on the egg rolls weren't too thick and it was crispy. Inside, it was well mixed and you could taste the different veggies in there which I guess means that they are indeed fresh and not frozen. We all felt sooo full afterwards and went home with full bellies and happy hearts. Yes, get the dumplings there. —PandasGoMoo
2010-02-12 13:58:01 This place is awesome and authentic. That is all. —tombrokaw
2010-02-12 17:17:30 The veggie wontons are my new favorite here. The veggie dumplings are really good, but there is something about the house sauce on the wontons that really set them apart. You wouldn't expect a plate of veggie wontons to be very filling, but they truly are. And I'm definitely a sucker for great service — this place does not disappoint. The main waitress here is quite a character and she makes sure you have everything you need the moment you sit down. Chances are you'll hear her before you see her! —MichellePalmer
2010-02-18 18:27:06 I had a random craving for Fish n Chips so I decided to give this place a try, again. I had the Fish n Chips about a year ago when it was London fish n chips and it wasn't very good. This time was about the same, the fish isn't terrible, it's ok...needed more salt but the french fries they serve with the fish are a disappointment. Overall, I ate the whole meal, but only because I was starving. I would not recommend this meal. The service was great! I'll forsure come back to this restaurant and try out there other items after reading the reviews (: —TICKtacTOEtag
2010-02-27 12:57:25 Tried them yesterday for lunch. All I can say is the seafood and pork/chive dumplings are DELICIOUS! Egg rolls and the won tons were good too. Kind of bummed that the won tons weren't deep fried as I'm used too. This spot is going into the rotation for sure. If I can make one suggestion, make the dumpling portions smaller and lower the price. This will allow people to order different kinds of dumplings without getting burnt out on one flavor. —103
2010-03-03 17:40:27 The "wontons" are authentic, Hunan (SE China) types, big ones, not the Cantonese type (the smaller ones from Southern China popular in places like Hong Kong). The "peanut/whatever" else sauce is not authentic, though more suitable for American taste :) —LeeY
2010-03-10 22:39:28 I just came by tonight and I would definitely come back for their SEAFOOD DUMPLINGS. Its the meatiest, tastiest shrimp/chicken/pork filling and its super fresh! I wouldn't get them "gyoza"/fried style, the steamed ones is better. The friendly lady who took our order was so sweet and gave us tons of reccommendations. The restaurant looks really nice now and has lots of seating indoor and outdoors. I did order the calamari, which I'd pass, it didn't taste that great and was really breaded. OH, and the dipping sauce for the dumplings was a nice touch, its vinegary/sweet/tangy. —MissAmyQ
2010-03-17 17:05:25 I love Davis Noodle City and the Red Orchid Restaurant (run by the same owners), so I expected to love this place, too. Unfortunately, the dumplings were not to my liking. I will say that everything seemed fresh and freshly made — it's just that the flavors were not to my liking. (I liked the veggie a bit better than the beef, but not enough to get it again). But since taste is a personal thing, others will have to try it themselves to see what they think. Oh, and the other downside was that they were woefully understaffed the day we went there, and so had to wait a long time to get waited on, to get our check, etc. —CovertProfessor
2010-03-20 20:21:49 I can't get enough of the seafood and chicken dumplings there! They are extremely delicious. However, I would prefer a different dipping sause. —StellaTo
- You can ask for different sauces. Spicy house sauce is the best! —EdHenn
2010-03-21 17:35:51 Just tried this place today. The seafood dumplings were tasty, filling, and reasonably priced. We tried a few other dishes, and the onion flat-bread appetizer stood out as particularly delicious. Service was very friendly and everyone working there seemed genuinely cheerful. I'll definitely be coming back in the near future. —ScottMeehleib
2010-03-25 15:48:13 Does anyone know who the managers are? Is it the same couple who ran the previous restaurant? I can't wait to try these dumplings! I'll go and visit for lunch when school starts up again! —ArianeMetz
- Ah I see who the owners are! Ahhh I can't wait to try this place out!
2010-04-01 00:03:18 i had the potstickers here with a couple of friends, and they were pretty delish! :) and really filling too. and at only $7+... not a bad deal, either!
however, the service here was HORRIBLE. :( i'm sorry, but waiting 1 hour to get your food (as one unfortunate soul in my party had to do) is ridiculous. i think this was partly due to the fact that the place was pretty much packed when we went, but still. i think they also automatically assume that everyone does family-style (and thus bringing out plates of dumplings one at a time instead of all at once), which would further explain the delay in food.
all in all, the food is good, but the service is iffy. —sugarpop
2010-04-26 13:23:32 Wow, I'm smitten. These dumplings are delicious! I called in a pick up order today and the woman on the phone was incredibly nice and friendly. I got the restaurant in under 10 minutes and my order was piping hot, ready to go. The transaction was smooth, and the lady was so cute amd happy, you couldn't help but feel the same. Took the food back to my office, opened up the container, and was shocked to see a dozen huge, succulent looking dumplings! All for $6.25! I took the first bite and was intstantly in love. I couldn't believe that someone was making pork dumplings out in Davis that tasted as authentic as anything you'd get in SF Chinatown. I could only eat about 5 dumplings before I was stuffed, but I'm definitely calling in another order after work today so I can bring home dinner to the family. I will definitely be back! —j0liefllle
2010-04-30 23:59:19 Showed up late to dumpling house after randomly discussing it with a friend. We got seated, the fish and chip menu remains, and the dumpling menu is nice and new! Good service, can't really beat the service of Miss J. We order five spice fried calamari, two piece of fish on a basket of fries, and pork chive dumplings. Calamari came first followed closely by the fish, I enjoyed it. The fries solid, the fish was light and flaky, and the dumplings were excellent, they took a tad longer cause they are handmade fresh! Told them they earned a solid review, and that I would bring my better half (which I plan on)
good to see this place continue! —StevenDaubert
2010-05-05 20:34:27 and I finally got around to the deep friend snickers
it's an interesting treat, and the warmth is a nice touch —StevenDaubert
2010-05-12 00:02:18 Sesame chicken- Yum! Pork chive dumplings- Alright, not bad. Five spice crispy chicken- Alright. But maybe I shouldn't judge because I'm not a big fan of five spice. My friend ordered this. He said it's basically popcorn chicken with five spice powder sprinkled on top. Cheese wontons- I can never NOT like cheese wontons. So cheesy and delicious. Fave fake Chinese appetizer ever! Fish and chips— Awesome as always!!! Nice and crispy. Large portions. Fries were good. Better than Redrum's fish and chips... (Their fries are terrible, by the way). Anyway, my only complaint was that the tartar sauce had too much mayo. I like mine with more relish.
2010-05-18 10:47:22 Tried the dumplings (pork and vegetable) and chicken pot stickers. Both were very good, but we didn't notice a huge difference in flavors. One was fried and one was steamed. We also go the onion bread. Very good. Will go back for sure. The portions are surprising large. We also had great service. Almost entertaining. —LokiAbbi
2010-06-02 10:20:50 just had a deep fried snickers yesterday. Mmmmmm.... good! —ARWENNHOLD
2010-06-09 10:39:34 We had tried a few things from London Fish n Chips before, and it was okay. My boyfriend and I were trying to decide what to eat and finally settled on the Dumpling House because it was "right there" when we were deciding. I had the veggie dumplings and he had the seafood dumplings. We shared an order of the fried green onion bread (a childhood favourite of mine). I was blown away. The veggie dumplings had the perfect ratio of skin to filling, and the fried onion bread was crispy without being oily. I just finished eating some leftover dumplings for breakfast. —pwong
2010-06-10 09:44:26 Delicious food, lovely and most entertaining hostess, I'd love any occasion to visit this wonderous house. —DavidPoole
2010-06-24 12:31:10 Went there and ordered the unagi bento. The size of the unagi was disappointing and I was still hungry after eating it. My friend ordered chicken dumplings and they were enjoyable. The egg rolls were nice and crispy and pretty good even though they were vegetarian. Finally, a meal for two with an appetizer came out to about twenty dollars, so the price was reasonable. Will return in the future. —hankim
2010-06-25 20:39:15 Very impressed with the pork and chive dumplings. I disagree with other reviews about them being bland - I thought they were very flavorful. Didn't care much for the sauce but it was okay. Service was great - the woman was so sweet and cheerful. Overall, I thought it was a great value - 12 huge dumplings for $6.25. Will be going here again. —StephanieRobinson
2010-07-10 13:48:31 Went here yesterday for the first time. We ordered the teriyaki chicken bento box, the sesame chicken chef's special, and egg rolls and cream cheese wontons as appetizers. For the same price as a chef's special ($6.55), the bento box came with the entree, rice, steamed vegetables (mostly broccoli) and a salad (green and red cabbage, carrots, and dressing), whereas the chef's special was just the entree and your choice of rice or noodles.
The egg rolls were okay, there were 6 tiny ones for $4.35. The cream cheese wontons were good for being what they are (as opposed to being crab cheese wontons that you can get at Ding How or Silver Dragon). Again, there were 6 for $4.35. The sesame chicken, however, was unlike any that I'ver ever had before and not in a positive way. I was sort of expecting Japanese-style sesame chicken like from Osaka Sushi before they went out of business, but still, the Dumpling House's menu lists their sesame chicken as being "breaded chicken fried with a sweet house sauce". Well, the sweet house sauce had an odd taste to it and the chicken was not breaded at all! Instead, it was the teriyaki chicken that was breaded.
If I ever went back again, I'd probably get the teriyaki chicken and maybe try some dumplings since that's what most of the positive reviews on here seem to be for. But we had wanted something filling for lunch and to us, dumplings just seem more like an appetizer than a meal. For sure, though, I'm never ordering the sesame chicken again! —pvo
2010-07-12 12:59:06 When I get a lunchtime hankerin' for some Chinese, I trek over to the Dumpling House. A dozen pork potstickers is plenty to last me well into the evening; the skins are thick and doughy, wrapped around a generous dollop of pork, garlic, ginger, and green onion, served with some potsticker sauce. At $6.80 ($6.25 + tax), it's really quite a deal. I'm always in and out in 10 minutes, free to spend the rest of my lunch hour enjoying the meal. The service always brings a smile to my face: the hostess is perpetually cheery and sprightly, reminiscent of those beloved nannies we see in TV shows (no, not THAT nanny). —AbbYu
2010-07-18 13:18:11 onion bread is good, the tofu is good yet small portions. Dumplings always solid, fish good. —StevenDaubert
2010-07-23 12:12:14 The best Chinese food in Davis, hands down. The tomato basil chicken is probably my favorite, but the dumplings, potstickers, rice bowls and appetizers are also great. Not too expensive either —AldenSeabolt
2010-08-09 10:04:57 I had been meaning to come here for quite a while now, and finally made it on Saturday. Man, this place is awesome. Super friendly service (the proprietor is hilarious!), and very cheap, very tasty food. We assumed the dumplings would be small-ish, so my wife and I decided to order three things between us. We got the pork chive dumplings (fantastic!), the chicken dumplings (also great, although we both liked the pork chive better), and the basil chicken entree (couldn't detect any basil, but it was absolutely delicious). Our friends ordered the green beans side which we all shared around a bit, and it was excellent. The green beans are pan fried to get very slightly crispy, and probably tossed in sesame oil. A delicious, healthier alternative to french fries. They also had the chicken pot stickers. We swapped a couple of chicken dumplings for pot stickers, and I think I liked the pot stickers slightly better. The texture and flavor from being pan fried after boiling were great. The filling is a little different (cabbage instead of corn, not sure what else), but equally good. —TomGarberson
2010-08-15 18:26:05 $6-7 will get you 12 large dumplings that they make themselves. Would not recommend the potstickers. —ahbeeahpo
2010-08-28 11:45:54 Had a really great experience here with my wife. Our server was this incredibly friendly lady. Each time she passed by our table or brought us something, she'd stop for a few seconds and chat. She had a great smile and was very fun. The food was quite good and plentiful. My wife ordered vegi wontons and vegi dumplings. I had the fish & prawns. The total was $20 for a table full of tasty food. I wish we'd have discovered this place a long time ago. —willwallace
2010-08-31 12:01:03 The dumplings are excellent. Handmade and steamed to perfection. The potstickers are the same thing, just pan fried. I don't recommend much else on the menu, however. And I say that because the teriyaki chicken that they have listed as "grilled" is actually deep fried - and I don't care much for deep fried foods.
All that aside, the dumplings are (as I said earlier) excellent and I highly recommend you try them.
The restaurant itself is cramped but quaint. The service is honest but far from 5 star. For a small little "mom and pop" type place they do a very nice job. —browneyedblues
2010-10-05 22:02:23 Great prices and huge portions. Friendly owners too, I really like going to eat at this place. —NorCalFoodLover
2010-10-11 20:57:49 You can purchase frozen dumplings in bulk. I got 50 pork dumplings for $18.50. Pretty rad for handmade deliciousness (and they were fresh too, despite being frozen!) —ChristyMarsden
2010-10-27 21:26:28 Some time at the beginning of this year my boyfriend and I went here to eat for a late lunch/early dinner. He ordered something from the asian menu and I wanted to try the fish and chips. Well, we were unpleasantly surprised with the food we got. Neither of us really liked what we had each ordered, and we chalked it up to maybe we just weren't hungry. I got my food to go, took it home, and the take out box sat there for a few days until we threw it out. I am sad to learn that The Dumpling House is owned by the same people who own Davis Noodle City, cause DNC is just SO good and we were so disappointed with The Dumpling House.. —KaprilWooley
2010-12-03 00:48:24 Holy Cow, this place is epic! —CarlosOverstreet
2010-12-03 19:46:35 So I guess if you don't want to take any risks, the dumplings and potstickers seem to always get good reviews. We got pork chive dumplings and potstickers (like the last time I went) and they were good as usual, good portions. This time, I also ordered the unagi bento since I had been craving some unagi for a few days. You only get a strip of unagi... :( Other than that, I suppose the bento box was kinda filling (but I also ate 2 potstickers and maybe 2 dumplings). Came with some veggies (carrot, zucchini and five star powder), some shredded cabbage salad with dressing, rice. —JenniferGiang
2011-02-17 22:56:11 I don't understand what people see in this place. My friends and I all decided to eat here one night and everything was just awful! First off, the unagi rice bowl was hardly worth the price. The bowl was just filled with rice and the unagi was just one thin strip and most of it was skin. And what was wrong with the rice?! It was just mushy and reminded me of the time I left my rice in the rice cooker for days to collect moisture. The sesame chicken was just a mushy salty mess, and for the price you pay for this, you might as well go to a Panda Express and obtain better quality food. The rice that accompanied the chicken was slightly better than the one in the unagi bowl. It had that nice hard texture that tells you its been out for days but hasn't collected the right amount of moisture for spoilage to occur. And to round out the night we had fish and chips. The fish was less flavorful than a cardboard box. But thank goodness for the fries. The fries were probably the best dish tonight. Our table basically used them as a way to cleanse our palate. This place makes Old Teahouse food seem like home cooking and Oshio's fine dining. Would not recommend coming here. Save your money, and just cook your own food, chances are it'll taste better and be thrice as fresh. —DavisFoodie
And I have tried the dumplings, nothing special, just buy yourself a bag from Costco and you've got an even tastier meal. And for your information DavisWikierr, I said it makes other mediocre eateries taste like home cooking and fine dining. Who would confuse the Dumpling House with fine dining?
- So, you tried everything but the dumplings at "The Dumpling House," and are surprised that the food they don't specialize in doesn't compare to "home cooking" or "fine dining"? —DavisWikierr
2011-03-14 07:24:04 Shady as hell. Tried to charge me $1.00 for deep-frying dumplings (which is NOT on the menu) and then when I asked for a receipt I got something that looked decidedly unreceipt-like. Add to the fact that their bill only lists out items in Chinese and this place was a big fat no. —rrenati
- Look at the menu again — it's linked above. It says explicitly that it is an additional dollar for deep-frying the dumplings. And they would not be the first Chinese restaurant not to have the items listed in English. That doesn't make them "shady." —CovertProfessor
2011-03-20 03:47:36 Love this place, I've never tried anything bad yet and the people that work there are so sweet :) I love the fried Tofu! —SaherR
2011-06-12 00:38:36 I don't think there is any restaurant in Davis I will miss more than this one—and that is saying a lot since I have lived in Yolo County my whole life. "Vegetarian dumplings and wontons"—need I say more? The house sauce the wontons are served with is almost ethereal—it is so good.
On another note—does anyone know if one can order *vegetarian* dumplings in Guangzhou, China? —ArianeMetz
2011-08-16 17:16:09 The dumplings here are awesome and well priced, but what's REALLY AWESOME about this place is the customer service! I love the cute older ladies that work there! :D I would come again and again just to see their happy smiles! I don't have a mother complex by the way... >:D
I wish the AC was better though, ahem. —PaulV
2011-08-22 08:31:44 For a while I came here once a week right around the shift from Fish and Chips to Dumpling House. The lady that usually runs the place is funny and really nice. I really like their fish and chips, but their dumplings have become my reason of going there as of late. The pork chive dumplings and seafood dumplings with chicken are delicious. I still have to order fish and chips each time though. Where else can you get fish and chips and homemade dumplings at the same time?! —KurtG
2011-09-01 17:24:00 Like 6 bucks for a slab of fish, calamari, and fries?!?!?! Not to mention the dumplings. This place is awesome and the lady that works there (I think the owner?) is really nice. Would definitely recommend. —JamesThomas9883
2011-10-29 16:53:13 I went for the first time the other day, and I don't think I've ever had such good service anywhere before. —JessB
2011-12-28 13:23:02 The dumplings were tasty, but 12 of one kind was a little boring. I was eating alone, so I didn't have the option of sharing multiple dishes for variety. It would be great to have a "mixed dumpling" choice on the menu! —xarcadia
2012-05-26 03:44:28 I came here with two friends yesterday. The dining area isn't very large, but the food was great and reasonably cheap! The old lady that took our order and filled our water was awesome with a great sense of humor. She teased my friend who asked for a fork, hahaha. All in good fun. I ordered pork & chive dumplings, veggie dumplings, fried green onion bread, and basil chicken with noodles. Definitely will bring my friend back again haha. Cheers. —JournaL
2012-09-23 01:34:11 I went with two other friends for dinner and we all agreed that their dumplings are good. Although the place was small, the service is fast and friendly. Our server has an amusing sense of humor and interacts with us. Combined, we had the pork chive dumplings, chicken dumplings, and the beef dumplings. Even though the food is good, in my opinion, the pork chives' garlic + ginger taste wasn't very apparent. However, the house sauce is pretty nice. Overall, I will come back again for another meal. Note: the prices have changed. —AWai
2012-09-30 20:09:41 One word...BEST. 3 in Chinese 最好吃!!!! —Letian
2013-06-07 19:16:44 Greatly enjoyed the the large portions, quality and price! It is now confirmed their pork and vegetable dumplings and vegetable eggrolls are awesome. The people are nice too. Their website should be located at thebomb.com. —GrahamShepard
2015-08-08 00:34:25 The last time I went here was years ago, back when it was only London Fish & Chips. This place is totally amazing! The service is friendly and just the right amount of casual. You can get a huge (14'ish!) plate of fresh, insanely delicious pan-fried dumplings for ~$8. We had the pork & vegetable pan-fried dumplings, and an order of the vegetable pan-fried dumplings. Make sure to ask for chili oil! Totally on par with the kind of Chinese you'd find in the San Gabriel Valley, and now one of my new favorite spots here. —PhilipNeustrom
2019-03-19 22:48:37 I'm so sad Dumpling House is still closed :( It was one of my favorite spots as a freshman and sophomore. Admittedly the air inside the restaurant is quite greasy and service can be slow because the staff is constantly juggling takeout and in-house orders, but the dumplings were AMAZING. They were big and delicious and sold at very college budget-friendly prices. I'm just hoping Dumpling House reopens before I graduate next spring. —fruitpunchsam
2022-02-26 18:18:22 Davis Enterprise reports Dumpling House is open again as of Jan 25, 2022 https://www.davisenterprise.com/news/comings-goings-dumpling-house-and-bakery-news/ Anyone have more updated info, have tried calling but couldn't get through. —AlexMandel

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John Gotti, grandson of mob boss, arrested in drug bust
NEW YORK -- A grandson and namesake of the notorious mobster John Gotti has been arrested in New York City in connection with an alleged drug distribution ring.
Police say 500 oxycodone pills were recovered Thursday at the Queens home where the late mobster once lived.
John Gotti the grandson, 23, was arrested, along with his girlfriend.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown says the search was part of a probe that has led to seven arrests and the seizure of $40,000 in cash. Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce referred to the take-down as "Operation Beach Party" at a NYPD news presser Thursday, reports CBS New York.
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In an unrelated takedown, 46 alleged mobsters were charged federally in New York Friday, accused of involvement in a massive East Coast crime syndicate.
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Estimated Cost: $5.4 million
Start Date: September 2023
Estimated End Date: May 2024
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Paige Turley, 22, West Lothian
Lewis Capaldi's ex and the girl rumoured to have inspired his massive number 1 single Someone You Loved is enter in the villa.
Paige appeared on Britain's Got Talent on in 2014. "Paige is looking for love, and so when the team from Love Island approached her, she decided to take up the opportunity," a source told the Sun .
“Thanks to Lewis’s music, her relationship past has won her an awful lot of attention. So now she wants her relationship present to be in the spotlight."
They added: "She is very excited about Love Island and is hoping she'll find her perfect man."
Sophie Piper, 21, Essex
Sophie, sister of Saturdays singer turned TV host Rochelle Humes, was widely tipped to be in the villa for Love Island 2019 and is now going on Winter Love Island
Sophie is a dead ringer for Rochelle and viewers will love the likeness,” an insider told The Sun.
“ITV2 bosses are hoping she will be the star of this series.
“She’s got a really bubbly personality, plus they love the famous link.”
The builder and model dated Katie Price last year. “He was approached last year but was seeing someone at the time – but now he’s single, producers called him up and asked him to re-audition for the show,” a source told The Sun.
“ Katie will be furious when she finds out – he’d have girls falling over him, and he’s bound to talk about what dating Katie was like if he makes it into the villa.”
The footballer and model has 78,000 followers on Instagram and like Sophie, has been linked with Love Island before.
The model, who's shot for Nike and JD Sports, was rumoured to have been head-hunted for Winter Love Island, but poured cold water on the rumours, writing on his Instagram "Working and just across this geeza apparently going on Love Island – this is all new to me, fake news guys, sorry to let you down.”
“Alisha is exactly the type of contestant ITV2 are looking for – she’s gorgeous, body confident and isn’t afraid to be herself,” an insider told Mail Online.
“She already works as an influencer and has collaborated with brands like Pretty Little Thing, Missguided and ASOS, which all becomes part and parcel of being a Love Island star.


Upon its release in 2011 Narcosa quickly garnered support and love from Tobi Neumann, Ellen Allien, Steve Bug, John Selway and Anthony Collins, to name a few. The WetYourSelf! crew now release a killer remix package as they enlist the talent of Jennifer Cardini, Faster and Luke Solomun to reinterpret Cormac's cerebral techno ballad of 2011 ‚ "Narcosa", as well as showcasing an all-new original from Cormac.
The Original track on this release, "Haus", sees Cormac's continue his exploration of the Machina-Melancholia he has been refining over his past few records. Drum vocabulary is provided courtesy of the Roland-TR legacy, whilst subtle textures and sound design form a decisive nod to modern and established techno methodologies. Deep, fresh and seductively satisfying, this tune was designed for the discerning dancefloor.
Jennifer Cardini delivers an delirious wayward journey into Cormac's Narcosa. Deep synth notes, murky textures and drum machine hits are soaked in reverb. This mix recalls the work of Goblin and the glacial sounds of the 80s underground. Cardini has created an incredible hypnotising lullaby soundtrack for the now.
Offering up a streamlined dish in minimalism, Romanian talent Faster constructs an elegant labyrinth of percussive dub textures and sinusoidal tones whilst a firm kick drum and fast shuffling hats propel the track toward serious dancefloor language.
Luke Solomon takes us on a journey of a post-dystopian disco where human beings have been replaced by machines and robots who have learnt to dance. A dangerously funky bassline threatens to consume all with the help of flying hi-hat saucers and an armada of synths, pads and textures. An authoritarian voice creeps out from the wilderness. If DBX had been commissioned to soundtrack 1984 in a futuristic alternative universe, it would probably sound something like this.
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Excerpts from Jim Conrad's
from the March16, 2009 Newsletter, issued from near Natchez, Mississippi:
Upland Mexico is regarded as the center of oak-tree evolution, evidenced by the large number of species present there. In the same way, the US Southeast appears to be the center of evolution for crayfish. Mississippi itself is home to about 63 species of which at least 17 are endemic. About ten Mississippi species are known but not yet given names by experts. With so many species to choose from I had no idea what might be the name of the inch-long one shown above.
Dr. Susan Adams at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station in Oxford, MS is a crayfish expert and she identified the picture as a PROCAMBARUS of some sort. Procambarus is the largest of Mississippi's seven crayfish genera.
The above picture was taken in a mudhole half filled with water. As I sat waiting for the frogs who had jumped into the water as I approached to reappear, the mud beside me began working as many little crayfish just like the one in the picture began emerging -- not from holes in the mud but from the mud's flat, gravy- like surface. It's hard to imagine a muddier, gummier, seemingly suffocating world, but those little critters appeared very much at home. Footprints of a large heron, probably a Great Blue, crisscrossed the mud and I visualized the bird casually stalking across the mud probing here and there with his long beak.
A few feet from the mudhole rose the mud chimney shown below:
That chimney is much too large to have been built by a crayfish as small as the one photographed, and I don't know whether the crayfish in the picture is the adult of a small species or the juvenile of a species that gets bigger. The chimney was about ten inches high and you can see that its top was darkly moist, apparently having been placed there the previous night. The lower part is older and therefore more dried out and paler. Sometimes mud chimneys display variously colored mud layers because as the crayfish digs deeper different colored soil is passed through. Crayfish dig up to three feet deep and more. Sometimes a chimney rises above a single burrow that goes straight down but more often the main tunnel has a couple of side tunnels, each with a room at the end. Often you can look down a chimney and see water, for crayfish are aquatic, absorbing oxygen through interior gills.
In Mississippi some people call crayfish "mudbugs." As a kid in rural Kentucky I was taught to call them "crawdads," and we thought only people trying to act smarter than they really were used the name "crayfish." That word "crayfish," however, has honest roots. It's thought that it arose in English around 1400 from the Old French word "crevice."
The US Forest Service hosts a very nice "Mississippi Crayfishes" page produced by Dr. Adams in Oxford at http://maps.fs.fed.us/crayfish/.

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Hear Ill Bill’s Boom-Bap Tribute to Exodus Singer Paul Baloff
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Kings of Leon Announce New Album ‘Can We Please Have Fun,’ 2024 TourThe first single, "Mustang," is out now
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Gigi Hadid was spotted out in New York yesterday sporting another new beauty look; richer caramel coloured hair paired with grey lipstick. Quite the combo.
We imagine the make-up was for a photoshoot, given the matching grey nail polish on her fingertips, which suggests it’s touted as a hot colour for autumn/winter 2017 around the corner.
Not the most wearable shade–that’s a given–but Hadid, naturally, pulls it off. Considering last winter black lipstick made it mainstream, we wouldn’t be surprised if grey lipstick peaks for Halloween and stays on trend through to 2018.
While it may not be the biggest catwalk hit, grey lipstick has been trending on Instagram for a while, with Smashbox’s Be Legendary Lipstick in Deep Grey, £17.50, being the shade of choice for many beauty bloggers.
????Ok I’m in LOVE with this #greylipstick from @smashboxcosmetics in #PUNKED. ????From their new matte line. ?????? Thanks to @mrsdnoodle for literally RUNNING to our local @sephora to grab me one before they were all gone! Lol. ????? #beauty #cosmetics #instabeauty #instamakeup #lips #lipstick #makeup #greylips #smashboxcosmetics #mattelipstick
The jury may be out, but we’re in.
This article originally appeared on Harper’s BAZAAR UK.


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"Today I was a Mittagskind" – a Small-Scale Study of the Home Literacy Practices of a Four-Year-Old Multilingual Girl
Studying home literacy practices offers possibilities for learning how children in the early years acquire and use their multilingual abilities in multilingual contexts. Here it is argued that examining the home literacy practices of early years children within international contexts and discovering how these children use their different languages may teach us about how their literacies are developing in a multilingual environment. This article begins with an overview of research conducted in the area of home literacy practices as well as a brief review of some multilingual research conducted within the New Literacy Studies perspective. It then reports on one four-year-old child’s home literacy practices. It explores the multilingual usages within the home and tries to discover what role multiliteracies are playing in literacy development. The findings support the significance of authentic literacy encounters in the emergent literacy perspective including environmental print and popular culture texts.

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There is currently a raging confusion among the leadership of Homeland Study Group, a secessionist group claiming to have formed Western Togoland from Ghana as a new group has emerged
Seth Mifetu, the who claims to be the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the latest group known as the People’s Liberation of Western Togoland has denied their involvement in the recent attacks in Ghana.
“We the People’s Liberation Council of Western Togoland have no hand in what is going on…we are seriously against violence. We the People’s Liberation Council of Western Togoland shall always distance ourselves from acts of lawlessness. I want to state here clearly that Ghana must be held fully responsible for mismanaging a union with Western Togoland. We are calling on the government of Ghana to see a need for a review of the union between Ghana and Western Togoland”, he stated in an interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com.
He called on the authorities of Ghana to work towards resolving the matter amicably stating that perpetrators of the latest attacks are politically sponsored.
“We believe that the people who are doing these things have a political motive, they have political elements behind them and pushing them. They are using the name Western Togoland to discredit a beautiful course so I want to caution them”, he warned.
Seth Mifetu also denied the recent erection of signages on section of the major roads entering in and out of some parts of the Volta Region indicating that those were imposters.
“The People’s Liberation Council of Western Togoland is not behind that. We also woke up one day to see those signboards. We initiated investigations into the matter…we tasked a few people but their lives were in danger so they abrogated the investigations”, he disclosed.

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During the night of September 12, the Armenian armed forces units committed large-scale provocations in the Dashkasan, Kalbajar and Lachin directions of the Azerbaijani-Armenian state border.
At night, the sabotage groups of the Armenian armed forces using the mountainous terrain of the area and the existing ravine gaps mined the territories and supply roads between the positions of the Azerbaijan Army Units in different directions.
Confrontation occurred as a result of urgent measures taken by the Azerbaijan Army Units in order to immediately suppress these actions.
The Armenian armed forces stationed in the directions of Basarkechar, Istisu, Garakilsa and Gorus settlements using various caliber weapons and mortars subjected to intensive fire some positions, shelters and strongholds of the Azerbaijan Army in the territory of Dashkasan, Kalbajar and Lachin regions. As a result, there were losses among the military personnel, the military infrastructure was damaged.
The Azerbaijan Army Units deployed in these directions are taking decisive retaliatory measures in order to suppress provocations committed by the Armenian armed forces and military threats to the territory and sovereignty of Azerbaijan, to ensure the safety of the military personnel, including civilian workers involved in infrastructure work in the territory of Kalbajar and Lachin regions.
Necessary measures are being taken to suppress the firing points of the Armenian armed forces and to prevent the expansion of the scale of the confrontation.
There are losses among the manpower and combat equipment of the Armenian armed forces involved in sabotage operations.
In general, over the past month, provocations of the Armenian armed forces in the direction of Lachin, Gadabay, Dashkasan and Kalbajar regions of the state border, cases of shelling of the positions of the Azerbaijan Army in the territory of these regions using various caliber weapons are of intensive and systematic nature. At the same time, it was observed that Armenia concentrated offensive weapons, heavy artillery, and military personnel along the borders of Azerbaijan.
All these facts once again demonstrate that Armenia is getting prepared for a large-scale military provocation.
By taking such actions, Armenia also aims to slow down the implementation of large-scale civil infrastructure projects carried out by Azerbaijan in the border areas liberated from occupation and maintain a tense atmosphere near Azerbaijan's borders.
We declare once again that the military-political leadership of Armenia bears the entire responsibility for the provocations, confrontation, and losses.
The public will be provided with additional information about the occurred situation.


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A couple of weeks ago I got an email from one of my regular readers telling me that she had just published her first novel, set in 1917 St. Thomas. The book is called “Transfer Day”, by Sophie Shiller. It is available as a digital download on Amazon Kindle for 99¢. I believe it is soon to be published in paperback. If you’ve got a spare buck, give it a read. I bought a copy right away and found it quite enjoyable.
Here’s the description from Amazon.com:
As World War I intensifies in Europe, a mysterious stranger washes ashore on a remote Caribbean island. Abigail Maduro, an orphan with little hope for the future, stumbles upon Erich Seibold who asks her for help. Defying convention and despite the danger involved, Abigail shelters the handsome, erudite foreigner, and an unusual friendship blossoms between the two unlikely allies. In time, Abigail discovers the truth, that Erich is really a deserter from a German U-boat. Although Erich insists that he deserted to avoid sinking any more passenger vessels, Abigail is wary about his true intentions in St. Thomas, a strategically-located island in the Danish West Indies that is the center of an unprecedented $25 million transfer to the United States. An unexpected twist of fate brings Erich's identity to the attention of the island's German Consul, Lothar Langsdorff, who blackmails Erich into serving the Fatherland. Langsdorff forces Erich to join his clandestine ship surveillance and supply organization by threatening to expose his desertion to his superiors in Berlin. Finally, in a desperate attempt to thwart the upcoming transfer of the islands and pave the way for a German invasion, Langsdorff orders Erich to shoot the governor to make it look like an uprising. Overnight, Erich becomes a wanted German spy. When he is apprehended and thrown into Fort Christian, Abigail must act quickly to save his life or risk losing him forever. But, as long as Langsdorff and his men are still on the loose, Abigail and Erich can never truly be free. A lively cast of characters, including colorful West Indian characters, German spy characters, Old World Danish characters, a witty Irish sailor and a headstrong and resourceful heroine will keep you at the edge of your seat. Transfer Day is a celebration of friendship, loyalty, second chances, and the power of the individual to change the world.
The first thing I noticed was the Acknowledgements at the beginning of the book. In addition to thanking friends and family, Sophie lists a host of archivists and experts that provided assistance in the research for the book. In it she lists archivists at NARA, several universities in the US and Denmark, military historians, German U-boat experts, Danish and West Indian experts, and people whose real-life stories contributed to developing characters and plot lines in the book. I’m sure the research itself would be an interesting topic.
The main character of the story is a 16-year-old girl named Abigail (Abby) Maduro who has to leave her home in Colon, Panama and go to live with her elderly aunt in Charlotte Amalie, months before Transfer Day and right before the US entry into World War I. What follows is an interesting mixture of action/adventure and island life.
What I think Sophie Shiller really accomplishes in the book is making the period come alive. For those of us whose ancestors lived there through Transfer Day, it allows us to walk down Kongens Gade, stay at the Grand Hotel, and meet people in Market Square, while battling the oppressive heat and watching the people go about their business a hundred years ago. The depth of her research is evident and I think it really adds to the enjoyment of the book.
One of the things I found most interesting were her vignettes with Abby’s elderly Aunt Esther and her two elderly household staff, Nana Jane and Cooky Betty. Sophie’s description of the the old island ladies, their bickering, their stubbornness, their need to know everyone’s business, and their genuine goodness and strength of character, rang completely true for me. Somehow, I think I know these women. My grandmother Olga Conrad was born in 1899 and all of her friends were around the same age. The first time I remember visiting St Croix was 1972. Just about everyone we met was around 70 and the old ladies then were exactly like the old ladies on Sophie's book in 1917. Some of them are still living there today, in their 90s, and they are still that way.
I corresponded with Sophie and she has graciously offered to share her experiences researching the book with us on a future post.
If you’ve read the book, leave a comment with your impressions. As I said, the author is a regular reader and I know she would love to hear what you think.


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Santa Clara County is forming what they call a “county gun team” – a unit of lawyers, analysts, and prosecutors authorized to seek out and confiscate firearms from those the state feels shouldn’t have them.
Donnelly claimed the posts, including fantasies of hurting women, were jokes meant for his friends. He has no criminal record, and his lawyer described the weapons seizure as an intrusion on both his First Amendment and Second Amendment rights.
California adopted a controversial ‘red flag’ gun-confiscation law that expands an existing law that allows law-enforcement and family members to initiate a process to temporarily confiscate citizens’ firearms. The new law adds co-workers, employers, and teachers to the list.
Democrats want to remove guns and ammunition from individuals deemed as dangerous by any anonymous, unaccountable person, but it would not include the already existing lists of violent gang members. This is further evidence that Congress has no interest in reducing violence in America.
Trump directed the DOJ to propose legislation so that those who commit ‘hate’ crimes and mass murders face the death penalty, swiftly. [Yes, Trump said all of this – including the death penalty for an alleged hate crime. Hillary could not have said it better.]


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The Morrison government’s narrative chaos on JobKeeper reached a whole new realm of absurdity in the Senate on Wednesday night when it backed an amendment to Treasury laws for Pauline Hanson that would force ASX-listed companies to disclose their JobKeeper receipts.
How did the One Nation leader think we already know exactly how much JobKeeper was paid to Harvey Norman, Nick Scali, Best&Less and every other appalling grifter haunting corporate Australia? By osmosis? The Australian Securities and Investments Commission told companies back in July 2020 they “should appropriately account for each type of support and assistance from governments” in their annual reports and that “both the financial report and [operating and financial review] should prominently disclose significant amounts, the commencement date and expected duration of support or assistance.” Specifically, “examples include JobKeeper.”
The farce here is not that Pauline is creating a law to publish information that’s already been published – this is completely on-brand. The farce is the Morrison government proposing her motion to disclose information that’s already been disclosed as a transparency solution for the 97 per cent of JobKeeper expenditure that remains secret. It’s straight out of the Yes, Minister reruns Josh Frydenberg has been watching at The Lodge.
Also on Wednesday evening, Nine’s 60 Minutes dropped its first teaser for Sunday’s episode on JobKeeper waste (Nine, incidentally, also publishes this newspaper). Incredibly, Simon Birmingham, not Frydenberg, has fronted the program. Birmingham wasn’t even Finance Minister when JobKeeper was introduced, yet Frydenberg has thrown a helmet on him and sent him in as crash test dummy. Weak. As. Piss.
The Treasurer did, at least, front 7.30 on Wednesday, where he claimed that “JobKeeper was a very successful program that was well targeted and that actually delivered the strong economic recovery”.
It was the three-month review of JobKeeper by Frydenberg’s Treasury, of course, which adjudged the program “well-targeted”, the same Commonwealth department that got the program’s original costing wrong by $60 billion. We should take their word for it, then?
There is an equally risible basis for Frydenberg persistently claiming that JobKeeper “helped save at least 700,000 jobs”. But the most cursory look at the Reserve Bank’s paper on the matter shows these aren’t 700,000 permanent full-time jobs, but 700,000 casual jobs for four months – and at an annualised cost of $200,000 per job.
Frydenberg is correct that JobKeeper was a material factor in delivering a strong economic recovery – that and the Morrison government’s decisive management of the early pandemic. That can be taken as accepted. JobKeeper saved many jobs and many deserving businesses.
The argument here is over the effectiveness of the administration of the whole program. JobKeeper 1.0 sprayed out $70 billion in 26 weeks flat, $13 billion of which was paid to firms while they enjoyed revenue growth. What’s more, Treasury knew that $13 billion was leaking out when it called the scheme “well-targeted”!
More than half of that $13 billion would not have been wasted if Frydenberg had opted to retest those firms’ revenue after three months instead of six, as New Zealand did. Oh, but “Treasury recommended…” Many of those firms would not have even applied if Frydenberg had established a public register of all entities receiving JobKeeper as a disincentive (shame) to blatant rorting, as New Zealand also did. CS Lewis said, “integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching”. Then what a low opinion he’d have of modern Australia.
But how could Frydenberg possibly maintain that money he gave to businesses with rising sales saved a single job in any of those businesses? He can’t. Treasury didn’t say that. The RBA didn’t say that.
Why does anyone maintain an implausible position? How can they simply disown the existence of the questions they can’t answer? Because the consequences of the truth are unbearable to them. And if anyone could teach the Treasurer to self-justify the unbelievable, to master the art of self-delusion, it’s his host at The Lodge.
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This piece is an original, Acrylic on canvas all materials used are of Gallery quality and ready to hang‚ has been signed front and back. The Canvas is 100% cotton and thick wooden stretcher bars are used. Has also been varnished to give the work a lovely sheen and to protect the paint. The surface is slightly textured as shown.
This large piece is a fun painting representing lights, sparkly on our waters.


Open Doors Streetball
At the Y, we believe everyone should have access to programs that enrich their lives and help them become healthier, happier and more connected. One way we do this is through YMCA Open Doors, an initiative that provides subsidised access to YMCA programs and services to those in the community who wouldn’t normally be able to access them.
Over the past four years, Y Streetball has supported adults experiencing homelessness or disadvantage in North Melbourne. The program runs every Tuesday and Sunday at North Melbourne Community Centre (NMCC) and gives participants a place to blow off some steam playing basketball, a shower, a filling meal and time to socialise with friends. It’s a vibrant community program that welcomes all people, regardless of their age or socio-economic background. We are proud to support this program with YMCA Open Doors funding.
Earlier this year, Y Streetball gave participants t-shirts to wear when playing basketball. With help from YMCA Gear and YMCA Open Doors, the team created a t-shirt that featured the YMCA logo and a refreshed Y Streetball logo, designed by NMCC staff member Chelsea Collins. The t-shirts are awarded to participants who have attended six or more sessions in a row. Only 60 t-shirts were made and NMCC Centre Manager Chris Harding hopes this exclusivity encourages people to regularly attend the program, which in turn provides them with a strong community support network.
“A lot of the people who come to Y Streetball are from low-socioeconomic backgrounds and part of vulnerable communities. This often leads to them turning to unhealthy and illegal coping mechanisms. We hope that by having to attend multiple sessions to get a t-shirt, it encourages people to stay in the program for longer, which then gets them away from those habits and gives them a renewed hope, outlook and sense of community,” said Chris
Y Streetball’s longest attending participants were given the t-shirts first and the effect on the wider community has been overwhelming. Participants wear their t-shirts like a badge of honour and are proud to represent the program. This pride has influenced other members of the community to want one too, resulting in more participants attending Y Streetball. Of course, the NMCC team didn’t forget Y Streetball founder Dave “Disco” Gunstone. Disco was surprised with his very own personalised polo which had “DISCO” printed on the back. This was a way to thank Disco for all his hard work running the program over the past four years.
Y Streetball has undoubtedly made a huge difference to the wider NMCC community over the years. The program even expanded to run an ‘All Abilities’ session on Tuesday mornings. During this session, participants with varying disabilities can come and play a game of basketball. Now, Disco is expanding this program to Carlton Baths.
I’m so excited to be living my dream of expanding Y Streetball. I hope by doing this, people who have a disability feel supported and empowered. I’ve got a lot going on at the moment so I’ve got some new guys to help me out with this program. I’m still involved myself, but I hope these new guys will support me and make a difference in these peoples’ lives.Y Streetball Founder, Dave "Disco" Gunstone
With trial sessions running over the next few months, Disco hopes to make Y Streetball “All Abilities” a regular program at Carlton Baths. To help Disco with this expansion, YMCA Open Doors funded audible basketballs, wheelchair balls and soft foam balls to ensure all participants have access to the best, most appropriate equipment.
We believe this program makes a world of difference in its participants’ lives. Without YMCA Open Doors so many of Y Streetball’s participants would still be on the streets and be on very different life paths to what they’re on today. To continue running this program and others like it in the future, we need your support.
Donate to YMCA Open Doors today and help us offer more programs and services to community groups who need it. As little as $45 can cover the court hire for a Y Streetball session. If you would like to donate to this program specifically, please select ‘North Melbourne Community Centre’ when filling out the donation form.


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Osteoporosis is a major public health problem. Women are at a particularly high risk for osteoporosis, and 50% of women age 50 or older may suffer from a fragility fracture in their remaining lifetime. Hip fractures are the most detrimental type of fractures. Research has been conducted to assess hip fracture risk so prevention methods could be used to reduce this risk in the growing number of older women. However, previous risk assessment approaches are limited to a few variables and linear combinations of these factors. Also, there is an increasing number of available measures, such as bone structures and skeletal muscle mass, and no reliable risk prediction model exists based on this wealth of information. The overall goal of this study is to develop a comprehensive and flexible model to assess the risk of hip fracture for a specific woman. There are three specific aims. The first aim is to generate a risk model, based on clinical data that accounts for the coupling effects of the factors involved in hip fracture. This research introduces a new approach in the field of hip fracture, Support Vector Machines (SVM), which explicitly identifies the configurations of factors that are likely to lead to hip fracture. The second aim is to refine the prediction/decision model from the first aim using both the SVM classifier and finite element modeling. A scheme has been developed to select, in a high dimensional space, data points that would improve the accuracy of the SVM-based risk prediction model. These data points would be evaluated (fracture or not) using a finite element model. The novelty of the proposed finite element model stems from its full parameterization so that the variability of the bone response can be studied with respect to variations (even small) of structural geometry and material parameters. The third aim is to validate and compare the SVM-based risk with and without the use of finite element analysis and develop a hip fracture risk calculator for the web. A cross-validation will be performed using data sets from the WHI as well as other cohorts. The flexibility of the SVM classification approach makes it easily deployable on the Internet. This study will be carried out using existing cohorts by an interdisciplinary team with experience in epidemiology of osteoporosis research, DXA measurements including hip structures and sarcopenia, fracture assessments, biostatistics approaches for large datasets, high dimensional analysis and finite element modeling, thus making this study highly feasible. The study results will have an extremely significant public health impact by providing an innovative tool for hip fracture risk assessments.
This study will use innovative approaches, existing cohort resources, and interdisciplinary expertise to address a significant public health challenge: assessing the risk of hip fracture, the most detrimental type of fragility fractures. The study aims for a better risk assessment tool on the web that can be used by researchers and clinicians to assess an individual's hip fracture risk. This research will test new predictors and use the assumption free modeling approach to capture complex and non-linear relationships of predictors with fracture risk
This study was funded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.