Bafang Dumpling

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| name = Bafang Dumpling

| native_name = 八方雲集

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| image = Bafang Yunji Wanhua Guiyang Store 20170624.jpg

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| image_caption = A Bafang Dumpling store in Wanhua District, Taipei

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| founded = 1998

| founder = Lin Jiayu

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| hq_location_city = Taipei

| hq_location_country = Taiwan

| area_served = Hong Kong, United States, Taiwan

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| products = dumpling, potstickers

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Bafang Dumpling is a Taiwanese restaurant chain. Outside Taiwan, Bafang Dumpling also has branches in Hong Kong and the United States.{{Cite web |title=About Bafang Dumpling |url=https://www.bafangdumpling.com/about |access-date=2022-10-23 |website=About About Bafang Dumpling |language=en}} The company exited the Mainland Chinese market in December 2022.

History

File:Soy milk and pan fried dumplings of Bafang Yunji 20130827.jpg at Bafang Dumplings]]

Founded in 1998 in Tianmu, Taipei by founder Lin Jiayu, Bafang Dumplings specialized in potstickers and dumplings as its main products. Since 2008, the restaurant chain has expanded to Hong Kong, and in 2014, it further expanded its overseas locations to mainland China. In September 2021, Bafang Yunji International Co., Ltd., the restaurant group of Bafang Dumpling, became a publicly traded company in Taiwan.{{cite news |title=Pot stickers go public |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/08/13/2003762501 |access-date=23 October 2022 |newspaper=Taipei Times |date=13 August 2021}} Then, on 26 March 2022, the first store in the United States was opened in the City of Industry, California.{{cite news |author=Cathy Chaplin |title=Taiwanese Dumpling Empire Opens First U.S. Location in the San Gabriel Valley |url=https://la.eater.com/2022/4/6/23005032/bafang-dumling-taiwanese-potsticker-restaurant-los-angeles |access-date=23 October 2022 |publisher=Eater Los Angeles |date=6 April 2022}} As of May 2022, there were 998 stores in Taiwan and 1100 stores worldwide.{{cite news |author=Stephanie Chiang |title=Taiwan's Bafang Dumpling opens 1st store in US |url=https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4487425 |access-date=23 October 2022 |publisher=Taiwan News |date=27 March 2022}}

In November 2022, it was announced that Bafang Dumpling would exit the Chinese market and shutter all of its 17 remaining stores located throughout Fujian Province.{{cite news |author=江明晏|language=zh-tw|title=八方雲集年底全面撤出中國丹堤咖啡續整頓|url=https://www.cna.com.tw/news/afe/202211220275.aspx |access-date=9 February 2024 |publisher=中央社 |date=22 November 2022}}