Dim Sum King Seafood Restaurant

Excellent food — we ordered Delivery thru Ubers Eats (get $ 20 free food when you use the coupon code eats-​sl3yy). The food was delicious! We had the BBQ pork with steamed rice — one of my all time favourite Chinese dishes — The pork was outstanding. Sui Mai was delicious — the spicy mustard sauce a revelation (and very spicy!) Singapore noodles were great, as was the shrimp wonton soup. Highly recommend!

⁹⁄₁₀ | I don’t often go downtown for Chinese food since it’s always so busy, but I saw that it was cart service in Chinatown and my friend and I wanted to eat fast before getting a train. Service was quick and efficient this morning (10:45am) and it wasn’t too busy. There was a medium sized variety coming out but it was all the good stuff like pork buns and egg tarts and beef ribs. For morning service midweek, there was at least 15 different options being rolled around including congee, chicken feet, dumplings (shrimp and other), beef balls, tofu etc. — so not too shabby. Food tasted pretty okay too (y).
It was a great time to go since we finished in 35 minutes including paying for the bill.*
I switched between Cantonese and English, and staff weren’t giving us worse service because of it. This is *really* important to me as I usually bring non-​Asian friends and sometimes traditional places can be quite rude. Brownie points for them!
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DIm Sum King is just upstairs in the plaza it’s in, and it is close to 2 Green P’s nearby if you’re driving and really easy to get to on the Spadina streetcars.
*In dim sum places it usually takes 1 hour min. to get through everything from my experiences so WOW.

Wow! Yum yum yum!
My colleague from China brought a group of us here for lunch. He swears by this place and I was a skeptic because I’ve been to many dim sum places and didn’t think this could be much special. The place doesn’t feel like much as you trek through china town and up the 2 flights of stairs to this place… Once you are there, you sit and are inundated with people asking if you want things… And once you fill your table with way too much food (eyes are always bigger than the stomach), you figure out just how great the food is. Everything was delicious!
Definitely try the pork buns, egg tart, dumplings, and chicken feet… Really everything was great! I left way too full.

Honestly dim sum in one place taste the same as it does to me in another place so I rarely choose a dim sum restaurant for the food quality. Although the asian friends of mine will tell me there is a huge difference between downtown vs uptown dim sum.
Not enough to get me north of the Bloor so this one has become one of my preferred locations to hit on dim sum Sundays. (Yes that is a thing)
They are able to accommodate large groups, I have had 12 people on one of their large tables once. The service is quick and the staff are great.
This is trolley cart dim sum but you can ask one of the many servers for something specific should it not come around or order from the menu.
Price wise it is good, obviously works out better when it is al large group.
Oh on a plus when you ask for hot sauce they don’t stinge out.

This was more than a restaurant, it was cultural experience! The food was great. We shared an order of large pork dumplings and they were delicious. A server brought an extremely hot pot of green tea to our table that was also very good after it cooled down a little bit. We didn’t see a lot of tourists in the restaurant, it seemed to mostly be locals. The staff speaks some english, but not a lot. There were no menus on the tables, you order from the servers who circle the room with carts full of food. When you are done, you pay at the register on the way out. We really enjoyed the experience here, and highly recommend it if you are in Toronto. It’s located just down the street from the Art Gallery of Ontario.

An interesting Dim Sum place. I’ll admit my knowledge of the cuisine is limited (shamefully I’ve only been to Dim Sum places a handful of times) but I found most things here very good. Some of the seafood dumplings were quite good. My gf really loved the curried cuttlefish complete with little tentacles. I wasn’t a huge fan of the texture of those…
Service was very brisk and there seemed to be a good selection when we went. Only downside was the price (according to the gf) is a little high compared to some of the other options in Chinatown.

My sister and two cousins decided to stop here for dim sum. It’s okay overall.
Good
~ got seated fairly quick; no waiting time when we went at 11 am.
~ food came by via carts often but lacking in selections.
Bad
~ very few selections, mostly shu mai came by.
~ very elderly (retirement age) nonspeaking ladies came by with carts; appeared annoyed when ask them to show what’s in the bamboo containers since they don’t speak English to describe them.
~ very unfriendly staff who barks «what you want?» when trying to ask if we can get vegetables.
~ spent 60 CAD for four people and we didn’t eat that much.
~ tea pot looks unclean for ages.
~ can’t get a constant waiter to help you. You had to hail a walking server to tell them what you need and hope they remember.
Just like any Asian restaurants in ANY city, do not expect high level of customer service. Just hope that they understand what you’re asking for.

I honestly don’t know how anyone could enjoy the food here. My boyfriend and I went on Friday night around 7, service was alright. I knew we had to ask for condiments so after flagging a server down we were given soy sauce and hot sauce. I asked about the ginger sauce which I could see on the table next to us and was basically told three times they don’t make it until I pointed it out, at which point I was told that «probably the kitchen can’t make it, we’re very busy right now». Huh? You can’t even ask?
There were a few dishes that probably would have been decent had there been a ginger sauce to go with it, particularly the one that said «ginger and scallion», because everything we ate was extremely bland. I will happily eat food that is delicately flavoured and appreciate the subtle nuances, but this literally had none of that, no fragrance, no flavour, just oil and meat.
I’m honestly baffled.

Amazing cart service. Very impressive. Carts were consistent and had much variety. Best cart style dim-​sum I’ve found in the city core.
The only downside for me, which isn’t a big deal, is that it is not meant for one as many of the dishes are family sizes, although not all. Limited my selection a bit but outside of that, great for couples and family.

To find all-​day dimsum made us happy. After a day of filming, it’s what we all needed!

Two separate issues for me.
I had made reservations a week ago for 30 people to celebrate a special occasion for a friend. I assumed all the tables would be grouped together but this wasn’t the case. The third table was separated by another occupied table. Not ideal for celebrating this occasion. I brought this issue up with the manager but he just shrugged it off. Not the most customer oriented response especially with the knowledge they had about the numbers a week in advance. 1 star for that issue.
The dim sum was passable but I have to say the egg custard tart was really good. 4stars

Went to dinner tonight food was amazing service was great nice people only thing was me and my boyfriend were the only ones there so it had a «the shinning «feel to it but none the less a good time and good food!

Love this place! I don’t get to come downtown often but if I ever feel like dim sum (yum cha), this is the place to go! (It’s just a liiiiiitle loud on the weekends)
Cart service is on point. The ladies never miss a table. Other reviewers complaining about not getting cart service is kind of silly because they only serve it during 10−2pm. You can’t get breakfast options at certain restaurants after 11am either and you don’t complain about that either!
Service here is fast and waiters are attentive. It’s super busy though so you may have to repeat yourself a couple times either because of the noise or because they forgot what you asked for (I don’t blame them!)
Food tastes amazing. Can’t complain! I loved their shiumai (excuse my bad spelling), hargow, shrimp dumpling and flat rice noodles. Yum!
On a separate note, I never got to get my chow fun dish that I saw being carted around on the other side of the room because it was just too loud for my baby and he was getting fussy. Had I been there without the babes, I would’ve gotten the chow fun lol

Went there on the weekend for dinner with a group of friends. We ordered a lot of dim sum, beer, etc. For dim sum, everything was ok. Nothing stood out as being great or bad, pretty middle of the road stuff. Actually, the General Tso chicken was below average, like they just deep fried some chicken and added sweet and sour sauce.
However, I would like to compliment the service. The head waiter/​floor manager (?) was tentative, took care of us and genuinely funny. Even the others who actually did the serving, dishes removal, etc were very good and compliments to them all. Unfortunately with high volume restaurants, quantity and not quality is the usual so it was a pleasant surprise.
If the food was better, it’d be 4 stars but definitely 3.5.

In my limited dim sum experience, this place is pretty good! We were a big group and were able to sample many dishes, all very tasty. I didn’t have to worry about ordering, as a the two Cantonese speakers in the group took care of that, but I did notice that the food just kept coming. Some of my past dim sum experience s have felt painfully slow … not this one! Service was ultra quick. Overall a good time.
And for anyone with young kids, they’ve got the standard issue Ikea high chairs.

I’ve been craving for some dim sum and decided to come here for brunch with a friend.
My reasons to check this place out:
1) We’ve never been here
2) Cart Service
We were seated quickly upon arrival, and as usual we were asked what tea we’d like to have.
Then the carting game began. No-​no-​yes-​no-​yes-​yes.
We both loved the squid. It was perfectly cooked — soft and juicy.
Siu mai, egg tart, sesame ball, and wanton were alright.
Har gaw was above alright, so it was good.
Weekdays, before 4pm dim sum is $ 2.50.

Rating is for downtown dim sum (not comparing to markham). 3.5 rounded up to 4 because of service. Came here a little before 2pm on a Saturday and didn’t have to wait for a table. The interior surprised me because it was so large and spacious, with banquet hall style feel and cart service.
This was my first time here, and we experienced great service. All of the staff we interacted with were really friendly.
Food was good too! It was just two of us so we didn’t get to order that much variety. But the sui mai and deep fried shrimp wonton stood out to me, and I would definitely order these again. (Tip: ask for the mustard and hot sauce). The pineapple bbq pork bun is pretty good too, though I’d prefer more bbq pork inside. Beef tripe was average. We also got the crab claw thing ($ 5 each) which was average as well. I’m used to eating that for dinner instead of dim sum.
All in all, I had a really good experience here. Enjoyed the atmosphere, service and food.

Worse dim sum place I’ve been in toronto so far. Horrible service… The staff acknowledges you but ignores you.
Food is below average if you manage to get some food at your table.
There are plenty of dim sum places in toronto so spare yourself from the horrible food and service from this place.

In a world where cart dim sum service has largely become an inexplicable endangered species in Toronto’s Chinatown, Dim Sum King still does cart service… in the daytime only, that is, according to a server (which is quite the standard deal with traditional dim sum service). Otherwise it’s the a-​la-​carte off an order sheet deal as to maintain their all-​day dim sum restaurant cachet (dim sum, much like gwai-​lo brunch, is generally a cuisine traditionally served in daytime). Food arrives on a cart regardless, but it’s not the same.
But what do I know? – information on where cart service still survives in town circa 2015 is generally outdated, even from Unilocal.Chinatown might as well be a writeoff on the topic, as the places that does cart service either ceased doing so completely, only do it in limited periods not well communicated, or in cases like Forestview across the street, closed down. Restaurants might as well advertise they do cart service as a selling point (I feel like making another Unilocal list…).
Anyways, THE LATE ENTRY: you walk in in the early evening with a friend who’s expecting to be schooled on the yum cha cart service experience after reaching the third floor of a very grimy and unkempt building to find a traditional large Chinese banquet hall style restaurant (apparently they also do ballroom dancing sessions at certain evenings). You direct your attention to a window-​facing table that in the glaring evening sun despite the blinds deliver enough solar gain to make you feel like sweating at a summertime patio. Don’t sit by the windows – oh, too late for that. I’m melting, melting!
FAST ORDER, SLOW FOOD: you will have multiple staffers swarm at you eager to take your order sheet the moment you finish it. Then comes the inexplicable long wait for your food, perhaps close to an hour for a mere handful of dim sum dishes. You sit bored by the golf on the TVs everyone ignores (watching golf is boring as fuck, yes?) and salivating at the peking duck served traditional-​style to other tables. You bring up the delay with a manager, who then disappears for the next 15 minutes until long after the first set of food finally arrives on your table. Primal instincts sees the food devoured quickly. Then comes another long-​ass wait for another batch of food. Rinse and repeat.
THE GOOD, BAD AND UGLY OF CHOICES: in terms of dim sum, the food here is either surprising good or bad, but they all come to you piping hot. Some choices include:
— Siu mai: juicy and flavourful with the goji berry on top.
— Honey lemon glazed short ribs: so sweet and delicious
— Curry octopus: absolutely no curry taste. Tiny octopus taste like something between calamari and raw fish. Ugh.
— Steamed spare ribs (pai gwoi): bloody disappointing tiny chopped pieces, little meat.
For about 10 plates it works out to about $ 20/​person. You have to ask for whatever sauces you want, nothing’s provided right off the bat. Fucks sakes lah.
YES I DID ORDER FRIES WITH THAT: of all the stuff that slowly arrives, you realize they missed one thing you ordered. You bring it up with a staffer, who surprisingly delivers it quickly, not before a manager marks «+1» on your order sheet. The confused you argue with three different uncoordinated staffers over whether you «extra ordered» the missing dish or if anyone took care of the bill. You get a sense of how disorganized things are here, despite the odd cart service marker sheet on your table that they use to keep track of service no matter what service type it is. You convince them they’re in the wrong and they dump a dessert plate of almond cookies your way, which I guess is to be interpreted as an implied apology for the snafu. Don’t be impressed.
You can see why a-​la-​carte order sheet dim sum can be an unenjoyable and definitely inauthentic experience, as opposed to watching carts and old ladies go by.
THE TREK OUT OF THE KINGDOM OF DIM SUM HELL: The highly inconsistent quality of food and totally piss-​poor downhill service of Dim Sum «King» isn’t really a surprise when you’re over the years used to seeing how lousy Chinese restaurants can be with quality and courtesy.
Cart service or lack thereof, traditional Chinese dining in Toronto’s Chinatown is largely now for tourists and late-​night hipsters who relish in the patronizing cachet of eating in Chinatown. The rest of us have generally given up on Chinatown (both West and East) and are well aware of the «yellow flight» of more quality Chinese dining experiences to the ‘burbs (although even that can be a crapshoot). That being said, if I knew I was going to spend three hours mostly cannibalizing the bile in my stomach, I would have suggested the hell with seeking cart service and gone to Rol San instead.

Good price good dimsum
five stars for the price and the eggtarts
will definitely come again :)