Preserving a 點心 heritage, one dumpling at a time
Yum cha culture has been part of Melbourne since the 1980s — but it's a dying trade. Mankee is dedicated to preserving and revitalising this heritage: an extensive range of freshly made dim sum, snap-frozen so you can enjoy authentic Cantonese flavours and textures at home.
Those flavours are achieved only through experienced artisan hands. Each dumpling is handcrafted using age-old recipes that travelled 7,416 km across the seas from founder the Mankee family — one of the first wave of Hong Kong dim sum masters headhunted from the tea houses of Hong Kong to bring yum cha to Melbourne's Chinatown.
Family-run for over 10 years, Mankee’s kitchen team handmakes every dumpling on-site in Blackburn, then snap-freezes it — supplying home cooks and restaurants across Melbourne with authentic yum cha to steam at home.
