Like romance novels, dumplings fit tempting tidbits into a small but steamy package. Passionately devour cuisine with today’s Groupon: for $99, you get dinner for four at Hu’s Asian Bistro (up to a $199 total value). The dinner includes:

• Two appetizers (up to a $24 value)
• Two rice dishes (up to a $29 value)
• One seafood dish (up to an $18 value)
• One noodle dish (up to a $16 value)
• One order of thai fried rice or vegetable chop suey (up to a $17 value)
• Two banana-walnut spring rolls (a $12 value)
• One bottle of Flat Roof Manor wine (up to a $35 value)
• Four cocktails, beers, signature cocktails, or glasses of wine (up to a $36 value)
• Four teas, coffees, or pops (up to a $12 value)<p>

By fusing cooking techniques from Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese cuisines, the chefs at Hu’s Asian Bistro turn ingredients such as seasonal produce and Sterling Silver-certified beef into the menu’s creative, Pan Asian fare. Foursomes can flip a coin or hold tournaments of Hungry Hungry Hippos to settle on appetizers, such as vegetable-stuffed Japanese dumplings or Hu’s wings tossed in one of five signature sauces. After stoking appetites, groups assemble a shareable feast of dishes that can include wok-cooked mango shrimp and water chestnuts, barbecued Shanghai pork with round egg noodles, and General Tao’s chicken. The parade of Asian flavours concludes with the arrival of banana-walnut spring rolls, which double as a sweet dessert and a reward for mouths that have refrained from narrating their owners’ streams of consciousness. Between bites, guests sip libations such as the Big Buddha Brew, Hu’s exclusive Asian-style lager infused with ginger and lemongrass. The dining room’s plush booths and dark-wooden tables bask in the glow from studio and chandelier lighting.