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.
LittleJu
01/30/2007Yeah, i tried dim-sum there twice. Most stuff is fried; definitely not authentic Chinese food. I stopped going there almost 2 yrs ago.