Tang Dynasty Restaurant 食間酒家 — Restaurant in Winnipeg

Came here based on the rating, reviews, and photos. I was trying to find an alternative to my current Winnipeg favourite dim sum restaurant.

The shopping centre parking lot offers plenty of free parking.

The room was definitely smaller than what I imagined based on photos. Pretty dim, too, since the only major light source is the front windows. Place has no side windows and only has some small LED ceiling lights.

On writing this review, I realized that we ordered almost none of the dishes everybody posting here ordered. So this may be why my food experience may be less than everybody else but these are also standard dishes in dim sum restaurants.

The Chinese doughnut wrapped in rice noodle roll was pretty basic and not fresh made. It has been fried more than once and then wrapped. If they steamed it again after wrapping, maybe the doughnut would not seem so overfried and dry.

The meat wrapped in bean curd sheet was ok. It's just standard fare and does not stand out.

The chicken on rice dim sum bowl was ok. Could probably do with a little more steaming with the lid off as the steaming liquid was still in the rice, so it seemed too wet. This is the first place I've been to that uses those metal steaming containers rather than clay pots or actual bowls.

The stuffed eggplant. Now, usually, this is with shrimp paste. This is the first time to have it with fish paste. Again, it's just ok, but fish paste is cheaper than shrimp, so the experience was that much less.

Hidden gem in South Winnipeg? Maybe if there are no other dim sum restaurants in South Winnipeg.

If you don't mind driving to Chinatown, Kum Koon Garden would still get my dim...

Very busy place. I was there at 12:40 and was told there's no table available for now if no reservation, should be available between 1:00 to 1:15. So I left my phone number and waited outside. No body called me before 1:15, so I just walked in to see what's going on and saw they are giving an available table to two guys without reservation. When they were trying to give table to another family without reservation, I had a chance to talk to them and they gave the table to me instead of that family. But I still feel upset as I don't know how many tables they already gave to people after me. I understand they are busy, but don't keep customer's phone number without calling when there is an available table. The food is not bad, but not excellent as I expected, because I was told they are the best dim sum in the city. The price is higher than all the dim sum restaurant I have been in Wpg. Don't think I will come back again, but you can have a try if you don't mind the...

Pros pricing is decent free chicken fried rice spend over $43 took only 25-30 mins on a Saturday night fried rice was good beef lo mein was ok honey garlic spare ribs were ok Cons barely any chicken in chicken balls- all breading and mushy inside chop Suey was too crunchy for my liking not enough bean sprout ginger beef was over breaded with a little bit of hard grizzle beef in the middle and too much ginger in it egg rolls were laughable with little to no stuffing and tasteless

This was our second time ordering from Tang and I was very hopeful it would be better than the first time. All the food was very much just ok. Nothing to write home about. Unfortunately we won't be ordering from here again and will go back to the place in Southdale...