West Villa Restaurant (Causeway Bay) — Restaurant in Hong Kong Island

We came for the "famous" char siu reputed to be Jackie Chan's favourite also know as "big brother" char siu. However, it was very underwhelming with a lot of unchewable strings in the meat, it didn't justify anywhere the reputation nor the price. The other dimsums we tried, plus some takeout dishes we took home were ok, but all pretty average and the overall cost was more than the myriads of similar dimsum/Cantonese restaurants in the area. Worst of all, they billed our dine-in and takeout food together all with 10% service charge, not a place we will come back to.

Updated October 2022 We did come back after about two years and tried the famous char siu again. Fortunately this time the quality and taste did met our expectations, it was superb, melt in the mouth good. I added...

This is my friend's favorite restaurant. We went as it opened. We were seated quickly, the staff is great. We ordered a lot. It was all good. My friend insists the char siu is the best in HK, I thought it was good, moist, but lacking flavor. The fried gobi? fish was excellent. I could eat it everyday. The roasted young pigeon was also very good. The eel was nice but too firm. The char siu buns were good, but were missing something. I didn't like the preserved sausage buns. Preserved sausage has a very fruit-sweet and chemical taste. The crab xiao long bao was good. I would only return to eat the fried fish or try...

Awesome mango sago soup lol my comparison is Honeymoon dessert as I haven’t tried this at other dimsum restaurants except for one in TST a few years ago.

I only ordered very basic dimsum (like dimsum 101) Hagau - was yum better than tim ho wan for sure Cheung fan with shrimp - so good (with the shrimps were slightly bigger) Veggies - ok Pork bun - yum! Not too sweet ! Better than Tim ho wan too

Although we made a reservation, they gave us a table right in front of wasroom (i assume it was as we only had 2... but i think it’s anyway unfair as in the max table size 4!) - so I deducted 1 star....