Don't come here hungry or have high expectations. Came when Sap Lai was using Concept Kitchen. After waiting 30 minutes with no indication from the pager/buzzer my food was done, I went to the ordering window to follow up on my order. I noticed other people who had lower numbers on their pager (assuming they ordered before me) got their food before I did. Granted they ordered some different foods, but still. Looked like they needed more staff to help them out and better organization.
So in the end, waited just about 40 minutes for food to be done and when I finally received my food, they tell me one food item (shrimp rice rolls) I ordered, they didn't have it anymore. They did give me a cash refund for that food item. Also they don't make everything from scratch, including the soup dumplings, so I might as well have purchased frozen dim sum from Saigon Market and cooked it at home.
Of what I received, I tried the Crystal seafood dumplings (har gow), pork dumplings (siu mai), BBQ pork bao (char siu bao), soup dumplings, and sesame balls (both taro and mung bean).
Har gow and siu mai were not as good as actual dim sum restaurants but still decent.
Char siu bao was not the typical char siu bao, it was the bao sandwich type and filled with pickled carrots and cucumber. The whole thing was okay but I did enjoy the crispy bits of the char siu.
Soup dumplings were disappointing with barely any soup inside.
Sesame balls were not typical dim sum but still good. They had more flour on the outside which made it had kind of like a breaded coating and was not airy/hollow in the center. On the positive, it was deep fried crispy and sweet.
Maybe if I didn't have to wait an eternity taking up my precious time, I would have given an extra star. I won't be back. read more
