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| - This place is getting the 4 star upgrade! It's my new go-to place for dim sum downtown.
I've been 4-5 times now and the dim sum is consistently good. Much better than Rol San. I do recommend going in the evening though. They have all day dim sum, but it's the push cart ladies if you go in the morning/brunch time. When you go in the evening everything comes fresh from the kitchen, as most of the other diners are ordering from the regular menu.
(I cannot believe the review of this place saying the dim sum is from frozen dumplings...NO! I swear...it's obviously not)
Some of my favourite dim sum here are:
- The har gow (very thin skins, delicious)
- The chicken and vegetable dumplings (definitely home made, lots of herbs, veggies and chicken inside)
- The honey-lemon glazed short ribs (SO good...no fatty/gristly meat like at Rol San)
- The pan fried chives cakes (Must try! They are 3 small round disks filled with chives and whole shrimps. Not a big pancake like you imagine)
- Fried eggplant (very good here - stuffed with a shrimp filling, not overly greasy)
Prices are reasonable, the bill usually comes to $20-$23 including tax for 6 dim sum dishes (feast for 2 people)
The service here is great, really attentive. One time I even had a guy who was fluent in English serve me but normally you get people with only passable English.
The other food looks delicious. I saw some people eating big plates of crab last night and it really reminded me of a place in San Francisco I went to, so I might have to go try that out.
They also have really nice bathrooms. And on Friday nights, they have "dancing" with a DJ and dance floor set up and Asian couples doing ballroom and line dancing, which I found quite hilarious.
My only very slight moan is that they do not have my favourite spicy chili oil sauce. You have to ask for the sauces and you get a normal dish of chili sauce, but it's not the oily one. Boo.
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