Sun Hing Restaurant — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

TL;DR: The restaurant tries to scam tourists out of their money by giving the wrong change. The man pretended to mistake the HKD 500 bill I gave him for two HKD 100 bills. (The HKD 500 bill is of a golden brown colour and is much bigger than the HKD 100 bill, which is a vivid red colour.)

Full story: I am a Hong Konger who lives just down the street, but had never tried this dim sum restaurant before. The first and last time I went, the man taking my money tried to scam me out of HKD 300.

I paid my HKD 134 bill at the counter with a HKD 500 bill, but the man only gave me HKD 66 change and then turned around to do something else. (I should have received HKD 366 in change.) He was pretending I had given him two HKD 100 bills. When I reminded him that I had given him a HKD 500 bill, he just gave me another HKD 300 nonchalantly, with no surprise or apology. He had totally done this before.

This restaurant is extremely popular with mainland Chinese tourists and I suspect that he has been regularly scamming tourists of their change. Please avoid this restaurant, and please always check your change in Hong Kong!

Regarding the food, it's mediocre. In one of the steamed rice rolls with prawns, there was only 1 prawn in it, when a minimum of 3 are customary. The prawns were pre-frozen and not fresh, and also had a very fishy taste.

The prawn dumplings and siu mai were edible but mediocre. They were not worth this price.

Only the runny custard buns were nice.

I don't recommend this place at all as I don't think these are honest people and this is not an honest establishment. There are much better dim sum restaurants...

Went here as it was suggested on Reddit for great Dim Sum and it really was! Its not necessarily tourist or English speaking friendly but we worked it out We went at 9:30am on a Sunday and waited about 10 minutes for a table. Its super chaotic and small with plastic chairs but that added to the atmosphere. We got given a slip full of Chinese characters and an English translation menu with numbers and pictures on. The numbers on the menus correspond to each other and you tick the dishes you want on the chinese menu slip. We were ushered round the corner to a table sharing with another man. On the table ready was a pot of tea and dishes in a plastic container full of boiling water. You clean your own dishes in the tub with chopsticks. Amazingly the man at our table spoke enough English and really helped us out. I had researched the menu before and new what I wanted to try. He said tick the dishes you want and go find a waitress and hand her the slip. My husband also wanted to try the food the man was eating. The food then came quick! We ordered salted custard buns, rice sponge cake, prawn and corriander dumplings, Char sui bao and finally tripe. I don't eat meat and my husband doesn't like prawns. My favourite were the custard buns, both umami and sweet and my husband actually loved the tripe. He said it was super saucy and soft (he's never tried it before). The staff make sure your tea pot is full. When you are done take your receipt to the till and pay in cash. Our total bill was only 142 HKD. Amazing experience for...

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