One of the better dim sum places around!…read more Arrived right around 2pm on a Sunday right before last call. Place was definitely crowded and can see it filling up during peak hours. Plan accordingly. The food was Delicious. Must haves: the steamed Charsui baos and the Shrimp topped Shumai. Would order 10x of those if i had the stomach. Other hits were the Lo Mai Gai, Spare Ribs, Vegetable dumplings. Overall, some of the best Dim Sum food around that comes at a steeper price. No push carts so everything is made to order and comes out super hot. Push carts are always a nice experience but you never know how long food has been on those carts.

Wow, I was super psyched to eat at The Square for dinner after reading the reviews about them on…read moreYelp and Google, but after my dining experience this evening, I am most definitely not going back. It's no wonder they lost their Michelin star. There are WAY BETTER places for authentic Cantonese cuisine, for a more reasonable price, and that won't "sell out". We made a reservation at 7pm but was running late. At 7:05, we get a call from the front desk asking where we are because if we don't show up, they are going to release our table for other waiting parties. I tell them 5 minutes, and I show up in 5 minutes. No problem. First impression, this restaurant is LOUD. It's crowded, it's LOUD. Chairs and tables are right next to each other, it's hard to get between tables. You would expect that at a formerly Michelin restaurant called "The Square" at Exchange Square in Central, would be relaxing and nice, and somewhat quiet. It was quite the opposite. While the seats were a little more upscale and comfortable, the atmosphere felt like a zoo. The tea menu was confusing - there was a standard tea/water charge of HK$18 per person. But if you ordered a "premium" pot of tea, the pp tea charge would be scrapped and you'd just pay for each tea pot. Not sure if they were going to charge you that fixed amount every time you refilled with hot water... But we didn't bother as we didn't want to drink tea at night. The edamame and mixed nuts snack that they provide on the table at the start of the meal is NOT complimentary. It's not free and they charge you for it. HK$28 per bowl. How sneaky. We only found at at the end when paying the bill. There were two bowls of it on our table, so we were charged HK$56. It's not a large sum of money, but to misguided your customers like that? Not cool. Strike one. By the time we were ordering our food, at least half of our desired selection was already SOLD OUT. I say this is poor ingredient planning on the food manager. If you are expecting some dishes to be ordered more than other, be sure to have more stock of those. It's that simple right?! The roast goose was sold out, char siu (barbecue pork) was sold out, the classic Cantonese dish of minced pork meat pie, also sold out. At this point, I wanted to just walk out of the restaurant. Why stay if they can't offer the best food? We asked if the set menu was available, the manager said they couldn't serve it because some of the dishes were "out of stock". Strike two. Or maybe it's three at this point. They also sold out of the fried red bean pancake for dessert when I tried to order it. Definitely a strike three now. When we asked for hot water refills, the servers kept trying to put a pot of tea on our table when we hadn't even ordered tea. What kind of BS is this? I hand you one pot of water, and you return with the water plus a pot of tea we did not request? The same thing happened twice, with the SAME server, with the SAME kind of tea! Unbelievable... Strike four. Customer service was meh. Food tasted average, and not worth it. At this point, they're OUT. Bye-bye!

Dim Sum in a hot pot place? Or is it hot pot in a dim sum place? Typically in Asia, it's best to…read morestick with a niche, but in the case for Budaoweng (BUTT-DOU-WONG 不倒翁), they've defied the odds and somehow managed to do a great job at both. Couple the fact they're located on one of the highest floors of iSQUARE (#1), this means one can enjoy their food and a view at the same time. Let's start with the dim sum. It's all very good. I have to give them kudos for high quality renditions of spring rolls, egg tarts, rice noodles crepes, shrimp dumplings, Malay sponge cake, and number of other items. The tea is good as well and for the most part, everything is high quality. Speaking of quality, the hot pot presentation is definitely IG worthy. More importantly, the broth for the Chinese herbal and mala were very clear and full of flavor. Sure, their a la carte ingredients are a tad spendy and somewhat portion challenged, it is still completely legit. Reservations are always recommended at places like this. There is no hard dress code per se, but I wouldn't recommend coming here dressed terribly. Service is always very good and super courteous. I would highly recommend coming here in a group because hot pot and dim sum are best enjoyed with others. ____________ (#1) A beastly mall in TST: http://www.yelp.com/biz/ECraV3C99IfQIrE_hCB9Ng

Seated by the window at the booth with view. All the dim sum dishes was amazing! Service was very…read moreattentive! Love this place. Will try to come back before going back to state.

It's been a long long time since I've dined here so I don't remember it. I just remembered I had a…read moregood time. It was a fairly quiet night for a Friday with about 1/2 the restaurant full at 8pm. High quality food & high end prices. If you go with meals, expect to pay HK$500-800. If you go ala cart, who knows, as each item about $150 and not very large. But the service is attentive and the do a good job all at rounds.

Come here once in a while for very fresh and delicious Japanese food, and it's longevity is…read moretestament to the quality of the food - it's one of the first ever restaurants in Lan Kwai Fong and still going strong. In fact, when the chef here walks into Dragon-i, they give him a table with bottles and celebrity treatment. Such is the stature of the patrons and this establishment over the years. All the sashimi dishes are amazingly fresh and well-conceptualized, the plating is aestheically-inclined and a bit Western in fact. You won't just get the basic silced sashimi here, it will usually come plated and sometimes with a tangy sauce or complements. I cannot single out a single sashimi dish but I am a big fan of the lobster congee with is wonderful near the end of a cold meal and before dessert, very moreish, very flavorful. It's around HKD 1,000 per head for omakase, and may be more expensive depending on what you want. But a good thing is you can tell them your budget and they can also figure out if that's doable. I did a ~HKD 600 omakase, but ended up spending another HKD 600 on sake. But hey, it's in Lan Kwai Fong after all, So is it cheap? Not really. But is the food delicious? Fresh? Totally. Am I drunk? Yep. But hey, I'm a functional drunk, you can trust me.

I recommend upper level for the Teppanyaki experience and sushi. Ground level for the robatayaki…read more(yakitori) they will bring you food from upstairs if you seat downstairs but not the other way around. So depending on what you want to eat, you will have to choose first where to seat. Not a problem but just spent 10min trying to understand the menu first in the lobby before choosing where to seat.(downstairs...) Now for the good stuff: - prices are not cheap but value is great. Tiger prawn, Japanese beef, etc. A lot of very premium items that they carry super fresh and delicious. Tenderloin beef melts in your mouth and the tiger prawn is just pure poetry. This little surf & turf got my bill north of $2000 but it was completely worth it. Many restaurants in HK will advertise on the menu the Japanese beef but when you want to order it, it is not available. This happens quite often and it is frustrating - grilled skewers were good but not great. Unlike yakitori-focused restaurant, it is not the only thing they do, so they are not amazing at it. The deboned stuffed chicken wing was excellent though. The vegetable skewers were just OK - 1 toro scallion roll was amazing - sake selection was good - cheesecake was good. not too sweet. - service was attentive Highly recommend this place and hope to return

Upon visiting this area of HK, I grew hungry and in the mood for some food. I walked into the first…read moreone that's open, which happens to be this establishment. The staff greeted me and took my orders. I decided to order a noodle dish with some sweet sauce. It's actually very good, an enjoyable meal even. The sauce was perfect that adds a bang to my tongue noodle by noodle. I give this restaurant a thumbs up.

Traditional Taiwanese style's hot pot restaurant. You can…read morerecall your memory taste which you felt before, all fresher food and very yummy. Apart of this all staffs are nice and friendly. Nice partition let you can enjoy your food very relaxable. Overall highly recommend all of you go try this but remember make reservation first.

While the food was good and the soup base yummy, can't justify the price for the portions. When…read moreyour veggies start from $50+ and it's a small portion, and you get like 8 small cubes of tofu - it was a bit of a shock when our bill came out to over a thousand. We didn't even order any meat or alcohol and all the seafood we wanted was all out. The decor was nice however the ventilation was quite poor so expect to come out wreaking like mala soup and boiled meat. The patio for smokers seems like a great idea so maybe worth going if you have big pockets or someone else is footing the bill.

Came here for dinner, having the pictures on there site was looking forward to have sushi and uni,…read moreafter we sat down we qr code menu, it showed they were out of tuna and uni. We asked when will a fresh shipment of fish would arrive, was told they would not know, very disappointed we left.

What's better than a big bowl of ikura and uni? The creamy, briny uni goes perfect with rice. The…read moreikura pops in your mouth for a perfect textural contrast. There is no better breakfast, especially with a nice hot bowl of miso soup. Taste: **** Service: **** Ambiance: **** ------------------------------ Big Bang Don 57 Shantung St, Mong Kok, Hong Kong ------------------------------

You might be able to cram into this small restaurant, but after the meal, I'm not sure if you can…read morewalk back out... The food here was delicious and affordable! We came here for a late night dinner as we had the Thai food craving. The first one we wanted to go to closed early at 8pm, so we walked a couple of blocks to arrive to this little gem. If you've always been how I used to be at Thai restaurants, ordering the safe dishes like green curry, Panang curry and the rest of the curries, Pad Thai, drunken noodles, chicken satay, then maybe you'd wanna try some other Thai stuff here, because this place is really authentic and the chef cooks good food. I highly recommend their cold appetizers such as the spicy papaya salad with salted crab and the minced pork salad. The dishes don't taste simple as they sound because of all the special Thai herbs and spices they use. As a person who has never attempted cooking Thai dishes before, how they cook always baffles me. Watch out for the Thai spicy level. I'd go with a 3 only if you just want a little bit of kick. If you can do a Thai 10, more power to you! The papaya salad with salted crab, as the name spells out, can be a bit on the salty side, so it's good if you have some white rice as a filler. The minced pork salad is to be eaten like a Chinese chicken wrap where you scoop the minced pork into the cup-shaped lettuce leaf and shove it into your mouth. The one hot dish I absolutely devoured was the stir-fried morning glory Thai style! It tastes like what a lot of HK locals would refer to 夠穫氣 which literally means "enough wok essence" Yeah it sounds so dumb... What it means is there is enough fire, heat and power to make a good stir-fry! The curries there were just okay, but definitely decent enough to fulfill your curry cravings. To wrap the meal up, how can we forget the mango sticky rice! I made my own mango sticky rice before, so I know what's good and not, and this place got it right! The rice was chewy and soft, and the coconut sauce had the right consistency and flavor. The mango would not be in season in the winter so it might taste a bit sour, but it wouldn't be their fault, so if you want a perfect mango sticky rice, order during the summer. Definitely a good spot for Thai food in Wan Chai!

Delicious and authentic thai food. Reasonably priced and nice service…read more As a thai person, this is one of my go-to Thai places in HK ... so that says a lot? There is actually another branch on stone nullah lane which is less crowded than the one next to the lee tung avenue.