What is Bellevue Dumpling Week?

Bellevue Dumpling Week is February 14 - 24, 2026, and that means local restaurants across Bellevue are serving up steamed, pan-fried, stuffed, and soupy dumplings inspired by global traditions. Some are menu staples, while others are special Dumpling Week exclusives. There's even a chance you could win an adorable stuffed dumpling keychain. 

Part of Visit Bellevue’s Culinary Weeks series, this delicious celebration also coincides with Lunar New Year, symbolically ushering in good fortune. Dumplings resemble ancient Chinese gold ingots called yuan bao, and eating them during the new year celebrations is believed to attract wealth and prosperity. So let's celebrate with these hand-crafted goodies!

Featured Dumpling Week Dishes

Dumpling Week is a delicious opportunity to expand our collective dumpling-pedia.

It's a handcrafted beauty, a little bundle of joy in the shape of confit wagyu tenderloin sitting next to ingredients like yuzu lace tuile at Ascend Prime Steak & Sushi, a 31st floor experience. On Main Street, Bellden Cafe is celebrating Dumpling Week with a very special menu item called Dumplins United, a fusion of two cultures on one plate, crafted by folding Ukrainian and Chinese dumplings together.

At Dough Zone, the Q-Bao® takes center stage - a fluffy bun filled with pork and savory broth with a pan fried bottom. It resembles a shengjian bao - a part of Shanghainese street-food culture, a celebration of daily life and the abundance of small joys. Baron's Sino Kitchen & Bar is cooking up a bold twist on the iconic Shanghainese xiao long bao, making it a Spicy Mala Soup Dumpling. These are delicately hand-pleated treasures, filled with pork in a numbing spice-flavored, savory broth. The long translates to dragon, and that's always prosperous.

Black Bottle Gastrotavern is celebrating with Tang Yuan, a traditional Lunar New Year dessert filled with silky black sesame and walnut butter. The pillowy rice dumplings translate to "togetherness" in Mandarin, or "reunion." It's typically eaten at the end of the meal with some tea, as the soft feelings of gathering with loved ones settles into a full stomach. Supreme Dumplings in Bellevue is featuring their Mini Pan Fried Dumplings (featured in this article's hero image), which has this beautiful lace of crispy, fried gluten gathering at base of the dumplings. Inside, a pocket of hot and juicy pork with a broth sit inside a hand-wrapped exterior. So many dumplings to eat, so little time.

See the Dumpling Week Map for all of the Dumpling Week participants. Here's who else is on the list:

• Earl's Kitchen+ Bar - Szechuan Shrimp + Pork Dumplings: Chili crunch, black vinegar, roasted peanuts, green onions
• Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar - Shrimp Shumai: Shiitake mushroom, scallion, ginger, and soy dumpling
• Shanghai Dumpling King - signature dumpling king: Shanghai Dumpling King’s dumplings are handmade fresh in-store, with thin wrappers, juicy soup inside, and rich, flavorful fillings, authentic, tender, and classic Shanghainese
• Hokkaido Ramen Santouka - "BOGO" GYOZA, Japanese Dumplings: Our most popular appetizer, GYOZA, will be on "Buy One Get One FREE" promotion for the week!!
• North All You Can Eat Dumplings - Signature Potstickers: Freshly prepared pork & cabbage potstickers with a golden, crispy exterior and juicy, savory filling.
• Facing East - Handmade Chicken Wontons: Handmade wontons with spicy Mala sauce
• Primo's - Moonlight Gyoza: Pan-seared chicken dumplings served with a black vinegar-chili dip — delicate yet bold.
• Uwajimaya - Wei-Chuan Dumplings: 21 oz. Assorted. Frozen. Juicy, savory dumplings for easy meals and celebrations.

Dumpling Making Classes

In Old Bellevue at Whisk, you can get your hands dirty and learn to make Everyday Dumplings on Sunday 2/15 @ 11AM, and you might be surprised how easy it is. Create a core memory as you chop, smash, crimp, fry and poach your way into making 3 dumpling dishes: Chicken Wontons in a Ginger Shiitake Broth, Pan -Fried and Steamed Shrimp & Vegetable Potstickers with a Soy Dipping Sauce, Fried Pork Wontons with a Pineapple Sweet and Sour Sauce, and a Smashed Cucumber Salad. 

Another class features Souped Up Soup Dumplings on Thursday, 2/19 at 11 AM, where guests will get step by step in instructions for simmering a flavorful and rounded stock, discuss herb, spices and philosophy of the Asian cuisine, and take the delicate wrappers to roll, fill and crimp your dumplings. Filled with Chicken Tum Yum, Hearty Beef Pho, and Pork, you'll get to enjoy them fresh from the steamer.

Earning Dumpling Week Rewards

We gamified Bellevue Dumpling Week through the Vibemap app so that you can get adorable culinary week rewards for exploring our culinary weeks. If you track your participation through the app and check in at three participating restaurants during Dumpling Week (February 14 - 24), you'll earn a plush dumpling keychain for supporting our local businesses! If you happened to participate in Berry Week, Crab Week, and Noodle Week as well, you will earn a Bellevue Culinary Weeks tote bag.

If you need help with the app, you can email the team at visitbellevue@vibemap.com.