Is it worth the long wait? Depends on your patience. Having said that, I do think that Tim Ho Wan is a very good dim sum place. They were tasty, perfect dumplings I guess, but nothing to remember. To be honest, I didn’t find the shrimp and fish dumplings that spectacular though. My favourite was the latter – the buns were so freshly baked, they were almost falling apart and you could also feel cinnamon inside. You do have a wide choice of dim sum on the other hand- I had steamed fresh shrimp dumplings (18 HKD), steamed catfish and celery with turnip dumplings (12 HKD) and baked buns with BBQ pork (12 HKD). You don’t even choose your lunch companions here.
As I was alone, I had to share my tiny table with another person. I was lucky, I had to wait for only one hour- arrived at 12 pm, was seated by 1 pm.
Roughly 4 euros for a meal at an internationally recognized restaurant is surely a good deal, but first, you need to get a queue number and an order form from the not very nice lady organizing the seatings, then you need to wait, sometimes 3 hours they say. Of course, I could have used the public transportation, but I thought hours of waiting at this one Michelin starred dim sum canteen would be painful enough. My lunch at Tim Ho Wan ( 8 Kwong Wa street, Mong Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong) was 44 Hong Kong dollars, the return trip from the Central Hong Kong – more than 200 HKD. Top picks? The famed BBQ pork buns, vermicelli rolls, turnip cake, and the chiu chow style dumplings.Cheap eats Good Hong Kong Buns with BBQ pork in Mongkok has shut down caused by massive rent hike of the building owners. The chiu chow-style dumplings were also beautiful notorious for having soggy nuts, they had steamed these to perfection, with the crunch still intact amongst the soft exterior. UPDATE: Tim Ho Wan restaurant on Kwong Wah St. BBQ pork buns are notorious for being overly sweet, so biting into Tim Ho Wan’s buns I was pleasantly surprised to be met with a beautiful sweet interior filled with soft pork pieces. One branch was selected as a Michelin 1-star restaurant for 2010, and. Tim Ho Wan is internationally distinguished as among the cheapest 1 star restaurants in the world. At Tim Ho Wan, theyll serve the traditional tea (for yum cha) with your dim sum.
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A full meal to feed three to bursting point cost less than AU$20/GBP£14/US$21 – and that’s with leftovers. Tim Ho Wan, The Low Cost Dim Sum Specialist.
Despite this fast-paced attitude the food is worth it. Seated in the 17-seat canteen the fast, hectic pace of the restaurant will keep you in the fast lane: have your order ready before you come inside, eat fast, and get out or watch as you get stared down by one of the grumpier ladies. This is Yum Cha heaven, so if you need your fix you have certainly come to the right place. Welcome to Tim Ho Wan, the one of the world’s cheapest Michelin star restaurants. They are most famed for their mouth-watering BBQ pork buns and the queues of people that congregate outside their blink-and-you’ll-miss-it canteen. Delicious! - Details Tim Ho Wan Tsui Yuen Mansion, 2-20 Kwong Wa St (廣華街2-20號翠園大樓2期地下8號舖) Mong Kok, Hong Kong Other branches: * Sham Shui Po G/F, 9-11 Fuk Wing Street, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon * ICC Mall in Central (Shop 12A, Hong Kong Station (Podium Level 1, IFC Mall), Central, Hong Kong Top picks? The famed BBQ pork buns, vermicelli rolls, turnip cake, and the chiu chow style dumplings. The chiu chow-style dumplings were also beautiful notorious for having soggy nuts, they had steamed these to perfection, with the crunch still intact amongst the soft exterior.
A full meal to feed three to bursting point cost less than AU$20/GBP£14/US$21 – and that’s with leftovers.
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