My mother and I used to adore going to Sharks' Fin City. Back then, it was located on the tenth or eleventh floor of Times Square, making it the perfect lunch or dinner spot. We got to know a really nice waitress who was working there too, and we would talk to her every time we were there. But a couple of years ago, it closed down and was replaced by another restaurant - and with that, our fortnightly, if not weekly, visits to Sharks' Fin City ended right then and there.
Fast forward a couple of years: I'm talking to my mother and suddenly bring up the fact that we haven't been to Sharks Fin City in ages, and that there must be another one maybe in Kowloon or New Territories. I did a quick search on Google and found that the only one remaining is at Olympic City, and that it's been rebranded to 'Tang Xin Xuan', or 糖心轩 in Chinese.
I've since been here a couple of times, and nothing much has changed; there are still chandeliers hanging from the ceiling and televisions permanently set on TVB, and the waiters and waitresses' uniforms are still the same. The purple and gold color theme of the restaurant still stands, and is evident from the menus and the wet tissue packet that looks like they did eight years ago. The food, just like I remembered it, generally doesn't disappoint.
We order pretty much the usual fare of dimsum, like shrimp dumplings, shrimp rice rolls, meatballs with bean curd sheets, etc. We also get the mini sharks' fin in chicken soup. Even though it's called 'mini', I think the portion is just right for lunch. I like to have mine with rice, so it fills me right up. The food here is great and the portions are decent too.
The service here is good - waiters are polite and the food comes quickly. We usually come at around 2pm because that's when their half price for dimsum promotion is in force, and it never is very crowded. But today, we had to wait more than fifteen minutes for a table! It might be because it is the summer holidays now, so that makes sense for the restaurant and Olympian City to be busier than usual.
After a satisfying lunch here, I normally cross the bridge to go back to the MTR station and walk through to Olympian City Phase 2 to proceed with some shopping. Phase 1, where the restaurant is, is about 70% tuition centers, so nothing much to see here! read more