513632 Sun Apr 27 18:16:41 -0700 2008 3 46 China 0 3634892 Hi, We have been here in HK for 2 weeks now, and strangely enough we have not had Dim Sum yet .. Eaten everything else, but would love to try some good dim sum ... I am hearing good and bad reviews about Dim Sum in HK... Any good tips from you guys would be a great help .... Enjoy dave Sun Apr 27 18:16:42 -0700 2008 187358 mzungu 1 3635174 Almost all Chinese ( Cantonese ) restaurants inside four or five stars hotels serve very good to great Dim Sums. On Kowloon side, I would choose amongst the Intercontinental, Peninsula or Langham TST. On the Hong Kong island side, I would try out the Four Seasons, Conrad or JW Marriot. Other top quality non-hotel places would include Fu Sing in Wan Chai, Star of Canton inside Causeway Bay's Lee Theatre complex, Shark's fin city next to Times Square and Tao Yuen opposite Lee Garden. Stay away from the over-mentioned and overly rated Maxim palace inside City Hall. Very mediocre dim sum! If you want to narrow the choices down to one. Four Seasons on HK side and Intercontinental on Kowloon side would be my choice. Happy Chowing! Sun Apr 27 20:26:00 -0700 2008 3634892 10810 Charles Yu 1 3639026 I'd go to West Villa in Tai Koo. It was the best of the three dim sum places I tried (Victoria City and Lin Heung were the other two), and even though they didn't have any hum sui gok, I'd still go back! They have another branch in Causeway Bay, if that's closer to you. Tue Apr 29 05:04:25 -0700 2008 3634892 55178 prasantrin 1 3639711 it really depends what you want from your dim sum 'experience'. for huge selections, you usually have to go local/mass - although places like maxim's city hall doesn't have the best food, it still has a huge selection, actually any maxims or jade garden will do. lin heung is a personal fave for the unbeatable local experience - hustle-bustle, cheek in jowl, fight for a table, push and shove through the crowds to the carts - but the food is very good - if you like old school chinese dim sum (it's unlike most dim sum you'll have outside of HK), and if the environment isn't going to affect your appetite. hotels do very refined dim sum - almost perfect when it comes to precision, but much less to choose from - i like one harbour rd at the grand hyatt and four seasons. local foodie haunts include fu shing that charles yu mentioned, and west villa that prasantrin mentioned - the chefs from fu shing came from victoria city seafood - also a local foodie haunt - and apparently fu shing is even better than vic city now. i went to vic city recently and wasn't too impressed (fine, but nothing special) note also that many mass market chains now do 'innovative' dim sum, which isn't everyone's cup of tea - e.g. jasmine at festival walk does a type of cheung fun with a spring roll wrapped in the middle (idea comes from a 'zar leung' - which is cheung fun wrapped around a fried dough stick - scrumptious!) so back to my first sentence - depends what you want. dim sum isn't 'just' dim sum anymore :) Tue Apr 29 09:19:12 -0700 2008 3634892 119622 e_ting