Celestial Court Chinese Restaurant 天寶閣 — Restaurant in Kowloon

Have been looking forward to dine in this well-known Cantonese Restaurant for their exquisite culinary skills & elevated modern chinese cuisine.

We decided to start with their basic Dim Sum dishes, before proceeding to order their mains, and we were glad. Well, its not that their Dim Sum dishes that we had been served were bad.

Dishes like "Preserved Egg & Pork Congee" was silky-smooth, savoury and had all the elements of what a good bowl of congee should have. (Dish came about 15 mins after ordering).

"Steamed Glutinous Rice With Diced Abalone, Conpoy And Assorted Meat Wrapped In Lotus Leaf" was well executed in terms of overall texture and flavours of the Glutinous Rice and individual ingredients, all just felt into place. (Dish came 2 mins after Congee)

"Deep Fried Minced Beef With Parsley Dumpling" was quite a disappointing dish to me, even though the minced beef fillings were rich & savory in flavours, tender & evenly textured, the dumping skin did not complement well, as only the edges were crispy, part where the fillings were were soggy. (Dish came 21 mins after Glutinous Rice)

"Turnip Cake" in cut pieces had crispy, golden-brown exterior with soft, slightly chewy interior packed with flavours. (Dish came 8 mins after Deep Fried Minced Beef Dumplings).

However, just like their Glutinous Rice as well as Preserved Egg & Pork Congee, their Turnip Cake although was good, but not fantastic nor impressive, as we had tasted better for all 3 dishes somewhere else.

Their "Steamed Rice Flour Roll With Conpoy And Crispy Shredded Turnip" although visually appealing, out of the 6 individual rolls served, i was only impressed with the 1st roll i ate, thereafter the 2nd & 3rd roll had strong dried oil flavour drenched to the Crispy Shredded Turnip. (Dish came 5 mins after Turnip Cake)

Overall, we were still happy with their food base on the ingredients used, but the long waiting time of 21 minutes between our 2nd & 3rd Dim Sum Dish was ridicious, thus we ditched our idea of ordering 2 more dishes from their main menu, even though i wanted very much to taste their version of Sweet & Sour Pork and another protein dish.

Not only that, the Service rendered by them was also not favorable. Service staffs were more attentive, efficient and friendly towards local or regular patrons. I can understand why, as travellers like us may only spent once, but i personally don't feel its the correct for a Michellin awarded restaurant. We did not dine for free and service staffs should have at least helped fill our tea cup with the pot of tea that we paid, like they do for their local & regular patrons.

We had also been told off by one of the service staffs that we did not have to pay for Chilli condiments and they are FREE provided by the restaurant, after we asked her what type of chilli condiments do they have, so that we can decide on just one type without having her to bring out those that we do not want. Felt bullied and insulted in this case.

The restaurant is spacious and well decorated with traditional chinese furnishings. Grand and Warm setting. Do check on those wooden dining chairs though, as the piece that i set on was starting...

I have a mini reunion with my high school friends at this restaurant for dim sum. The foods are good but way overpriced. The quality of foods are the same as other restaurants that charge half of their price. We ordered crab fried rice, I don’t see any crab in the fried rice, instead there’s some baby shrimp. It’s more like Yang Chow fried rice. The portion of fried rice is so small.They charge $388 for the fried rice. I have tried Yang Chow fried rice in other restaurants that charge less than HK$100 and taste better than this. Before we finished the lunch a waiter( looks like manager) brings the bill and asked who is going to pay this bill. This is very rude, especially this is supposed to be a high class restaurant. It’s around 3 pm, there’s no customer waiting to be seated. I think they probably close lunch by 4 pm and reopen for dinner at 6. Overall this restaurant is way over priced. The quality of foods is no different than other restaurants that charge less than half of...

Excellent in every aspect.

Food. Presentation was good, taste was excellent and the dim sum dishes were served at the perfect pace such that most dishes were about to finish before the next one came. Not sure if this was deliberate or it just happened. Good job.

Service. I was impressed by the staff taking reservation. She was professional and very polite. As my guest was late by quite a while, she was very reassuring and accommodating. All these happened despite having almost a full house.

The manager was also very kind and professional. We agreed to using that table for an hour for our meal. However, I suspect he had heard my conversation with my guest as we were catching up, he came over to reassure us that we do not need to vacate the table and allowed us to continue chatting for another two hours. Very impressed.

The rest of the restaurant befits the status and accolades she has received.

My guest and I were very...