盛世樽宴Dynasty Zunyan Fine Dining & Banquet — Restaurant in Toronto

If you’re in the mood for dim sum on a weekday, consider Zunyan Fine Dining & Banquet where any small, medium, or large dish is only $5 for the entire lunch period. Order before 11:00am on weekends and the price inches up to $5.25.

Their sui mai with fish roe (L) is solid with authentic flavours and the pork not overly pulverized. Just break into it before eating as they were not cooked through on one of my visits.

Oddly, the har gow is considered an XL and therefore not included in the special. But, if you’re a fan of shrimp dumplings, the shrimp and chive dumplings (L) is a close substitute. Moreover, the filling is heavy on the shrimp and skimps on the vegetable anyways. It’s a run-of-the-mill version of the dish with the wrapper slightly to thick and sticky.

It’s a similar story with the BBQ pork and egg rice roll (M), which has big chunks of barbeque pork, but lacks flavour. The rice roll wrapper isn’t consistently prepared: one visit it was too thick and another still thick but at least silkier.

If you prefer a thinner cheung fun, the fish paste with parsley and preserved egg rice roll (L) fits the bill and the filling a combination seldom found elsewhere.

Zunyan’s shrimp balls (L) remind of me of a crab claw without the crab. Hot, crispy, and juicy these are delicious! Just be aware that the crispy vermicelli noodles pieces coating it are not always used.

The shrimp balls are much better than the pan-fried shrimp with corn cake (L), which is really fish paste studded with shrimp pieces. Sadly, it also lacks corn… an ingredient that adds texture to an otherwise overly soft patty.

While there’s a fair amount of mushrooms in the tofu skin roll (M), there isn’t a lot of other vegetables and relies on vermicelli instead. At least they were well toasted to give it that crunch you need.

I prefer the steamed bean curd meat roll with oyster sauce (M) that encapsulates more filling. Big chunks of pork, shrimp, and vegetables are wrapped in the flavourful bean curd sheets. Having ordered this several times, the dish stays consistent and always satisfies.

The shrimp paste and squid with vermicelli (L) is rarely found at dim sum restaurants, even though it was a staple in the past. While the dish isn’t heavy on the shrimp paste, it’s flavourful enough and the vermicelli soaks in all the juices and almost melts into the other ingredients. Sadly, in recent months the squid seems to have been taken off the menu… hopefully, it’ll make a reappearance.

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Former server here. Short version: if you want to be respected and in charge of your own wallet, go elsewhere. Money hungry establishment with unethical practices as backed by other reviews.

We ordered in and takeout. Tipped on both, even though tips for takeout are uncommon. The lady taking our second bill counted the money in front of us, stared at the bill, and demanded her tip be higher in a very entitled and rude way. Like we can't leave without tipping the EXTRA money, as if that's legal to do. After we gave her a bit more than the extra tip she asked for, she stared disappointed at the tip still and was going to ask for even more money until I glared at her. She didn't even serve our table once the whole time we were eating, and we were in and out in 40 minutes. Tip amount should depend on length of stay, quality of service, and what the individual can afford.

I complained to her coworker and he reacted like this is common. He was trying to manipulate me into thinking everyone is entitled to an abundant tip automatically because it's Canada, then I told him that I worked at a restaurant before so he shut up and changed his justification to because "the manager would be sad."

The manager doesn't care about tips haha that's not how he gets paid.

We won't be going there again. The begging for tips and being pouty is so repulsive. It's not like their dim sum is cheap either.

I've had teens dine and leave no tips because they thought it was funny. I didn't demand any from them, because tips aren't mandatory. The behaviour at this restaurant made me want to take back all the tips because as people, they truly...

Worst experience today. My family and relatives have been going to this place for morning dim sum quite often here. Walking in at opening time the short skinny hostess was very rude and giving us and another couple big attitude for not making reservations for big table. Hearing her complaining us and the other customers tells us how poor this place manage the front staff. I have to say other people working there definitely seemed normal and not bad. But Starting the morning at 9am at this place with this lady and this attitude seriously destroyed a lot of great moods of people. Not to mention it’s also Chinese New Year with such disgusting attitude. People with no manners should never show their face in the front. They should stay home or see a doctor to fix their attitudes first before coming out to transmit her kind of diseases out in the public. Very contagious and dangerous and of course negative. Definitely tell all my family relatives and friends to avoid this place if they want to have a decent place to spend their money. Money was totally wasted today and get this crazy lady sure destroys a lot of business for this company. I see others are complaining about her in these reviews. Man the owner should fire this lady for pissing so much people off on a daily basis. Probably make more money without her face in the front. Disgrace of human being that what she is; no education no manner and no sense of service. Make Chinese people look bad as well. Disgraceful! Disgusting!...