House of Hong Restaurant

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3.0 rating over 2 reviews

409 8th Ave S
Seattle, WA
(206) 622-7997 View the Menu

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Description: House of Hong Restaurant is a Dim Sum, Chinese, and Vegetarian restaurant where most Menuism users came for fun with friends, paid between $10 and $25, and tipped between 15% to 18%.  Tags: , , and
   
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January 28, 2007

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Good for large crowds

Food is decent. But it’s still americanized chinese food. And I felt really thirsty after the meal. We had the set dinner so I can only remember the names of some of the dishes. The other dishes look suspiciously western-style like and didn’t taste very good.

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Smoked salmon fried rice

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I didn’t taste the smoked salmon actually. And with a name like that it was obviously not a very authentic dish. Quite bland too.

Hainanese chicken

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i actually think this is one of the better hainanese chicken I’ve had in this area. the ginger sauce that comes with it is good too.

Roast duck

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The roast duck is good too. Not too fatty and the neat was tender and moist while the skin was crispy

Soup with shrimp

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Not bad. Quite a light soup and lots of veggie in it.

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December 5, 2008

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House of Hmmm...

I have been to HoH a few times for dim sum and it’s weird how inconsistant they can be!

If you go early-ish, say around 11 then you get a lot of your normal dim sum goodies like sticky rice in lotus leaf, ha gau, ha cheong fen, egg tarts etc. It’s not super killer terrific or anything, but it’s good and the prices are ok.

Now supposedly they serve dim sum until 4, but really they serve SOME dim sum until 4. I understand that it would be expensive and pointless to have every item available from opening until 4 pm. When we went at 3 we got some good things, but were told by the waiter that if we came earlier we could have gotten more selection and things would have been fresher. Well, at least he told us :)
They should really cut down their dim sum hours to cut down on dissapointed diners.

My worst experience here was when a club I belong to decided to hold a 1pm lunch here. I’m sure the reason was the size of the place and the available parking, not the food. Anyway, we ended up with only 6 people instead of the 10 who RSVP’d. Not too terrible. However we were almost ignored by most of the carts (strange because there was another large table near us) and were only offered fried items. We lucked out that a Cantonese speaking club member was able to get us some shrimp dumplings, other than that it was just fried-ville for us. I guess they had stopped making steamed things? By 2pm we basically gave up on getting anything much to eat and left. It was a very strange situation. Unfortunately it was also 3 of the people’s first experience with dim sum. I hope they will give it another try.

The food is good (not great, fabulous or wonderful) if you can get it. Definitely worth it when you don’t feel like waiting an hour to get in at Jade Garden.

Dishes I tried:

Har Gau

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Really full of big fat shrimp pieces and nice thinnish wrapper.

Sticky Rice in Lotus Leaf

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I like their sticky rice, and they do put chunks of Chinese sausage in it. However not as good as the one at Jade Garden.

Ha Cheong fen (rolled rice noodle with shrimp)

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I love this stuff in general, and House of Hong’s is pretty darn good. I like the light, slightly sweet sauce they pour over.

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