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| - After 18 months of searching, I've finally found a dim sum restaurant in the Chinatown/Spadina area that I am entirely happy with. And that is Dim Sum King.
Access to the restaurant is not the most convenient. It is on Dundas Street, a bit farther from Spadina, and even in the area it is a little hidden, on the third floor of a building. It's worth looking it up, though. Simply put, it has the best overall dim sum quality in the area.
First of all, this restaurant has the square footage to use the traditional dim sum carts, rather than written menus. While the waiters are just as busy as in other places in the area, they seem to have been better trained or chosen -- they are more helpful and courteous than in most restaurants of this ilk. Seating is plentiful, and this restaurant, to me, also doesn't have as much attitude about a single diner coming in.
The food is the main reason I keep coming back. Dim Sum King has the best beef tendon (??) in Chinatown, spicy but not overwhelmingly so, with a large enough portion, and a secret ingredient -- the small cubes of taro (??) at the bottom of the dish. They enhance the flavour of the tendon. Shrimp dumplings (??) are firm and flavourful. The shrimp rice-noodle wraps (???) are a little on the small side, but tasty enough. The fried shrimp dumplings (??) are massive and the shrimp inside are still juicy rather than dried up. They have both egg tarts (??) and milk (??) tarts -- I haven't tried the former, but the milk tarts are absolutely delightful. The bean-curd wraps (???) are quite good. Squid tentacles (???) are tangy and spicy, with the only down side being that they're not always completely hot. They also serve freshly made pan-fried dumplings (??) and the rare milk pudding (???). The variety of the dim sum here is impressive.
The pork dumplings (??) are one of the weak spots. No place in the Spadina area seems to get it right, and Dim Sum King does not distinguish itself here. The dumpings are too hard and dense. Palatable, but not worthy of praise.
There is only one down side to Dim Sum King, and that is that many of its dishes are put under the "Large" or "Special" category (some of them, in my opinion, shouldn't be), which means if you like ordering those dishes, your expenditure will be a little higher than in some other places in the area. The quality and overall dining experience, however, are still worth it.
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