Tai Wai Dining Room — Restaurant in Sha Tin District

Warm Chinese Dinning Room with yummy BBQ pork haa

Second time coming here after renovation, it getting more comfortable sitting here, i like the arts paintings on the wall and the artistic menu book, presenting our HK’s signature spots, you can see Shatin Racing Recourse, a horse eating siu mai, so cute, and ocean park is insides, such a creative and interesting painting to enjoy while having a meal

Appetizer Sweet Bitter melon tasting cool without bitter flavor at all cause they dipping them in sugar water, but you won’t feel too sweet, good balance, quite appetizing before our main

Roasted BBQ Pork in Rice is the most signature dish in Taiwai Dinning Room, the waiter is so eager introducing this dish to us, and using blow torch firing the layer of lovely bbq pork, making it crispier, and i love the texture of this tender pork, good balance in fat ratio, but only big thing is too big for one piece haa, and you can dipping fruit peel sauce actually i can’t taste peel at all loll, but still so yummy dipping sauces and mixing pork with rice, dipping more rice earning more haa, the waiter is funny haa, indeed a good dish here and recommended

Whole Crab Rice having fried rice under crab, the crab is quite big and fat with many crab meats haa, the taste will be better if having stronger flavor, and fried rice is not bad

Deep Fried Bombay Duck with spicy salt is another very good dish here, i didn’t have high expectation but turned out good, changed my feeling of bombay duck, well cooked and fresh soft fish insides, enjoyable dish here haa, can’t resist to get one and more pieces haa

Fried Shrimps with Broccoli is ok, but its better i ate before, this time broccoli is a bit thick, better cooking longer time, big shrimp tastes not bad

Deep Fried Milk Ball with white rabbit, look attractive to me when i saw this in menu, white rabbit is one of my fav candy haa, and i love fried milk ball, this one even not having strong white rabbit flavor insides balls but i love the smooth texture of milk ball, milk flavor is strong , even not the best milk ball i’ve tried

Split Pea Pudding is lovely with strong coconut flavor haa, soft pudding is good dessert after a full meal satisfied

Five Beans Sweet Soup looks so healthy, not too sweet which is good

The staffs are so nice and friendly, feeling warm talking with waitress haa, and they are helpful and so proactive, seeing we still have some dishes left feeling full for relatively large portion of some dishes haa, so asked whether we need take away boxes thank you, you will feeling home eating here, and won’t feel any pressure even there’re people queuing outsides, such a good dinning experience hereee, the whole environment simply comfortable(:

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Taiwai Dining is the toughest dim sum spot to get a res in Hong Kong right now. It is listed on Michelin Guide 2023, honoring traditional dimsum and Cantonese dishes.

We made a res one month in advance but could only secure the last round (13:30). Unfortunately many dim sums were sold out e.g. Supreme Soup Sumpling (灌湯餃) and Black Sesame Roll (芝麻卷).

＊ Signature Char Siu 第一叉🌟 I got my hopes up because of the glowing reviews online and was sad when I had my first bite. The thickly cut char siu was too tough that I gave up chewing it…The sauce really popped here though — they flamed the char siu in front of you and slathered a thick glaze of tangerine honey. I still give it a star because the special sauce is worth a try.

＊Sugar Egg Puff 沙翁 Another disappointment. Sugar Egg Puff is a deep fried egg dough sprinkled with granulated sugar. It became a kind of rare street food because of the complicated making procedures. However, their famous egg puff was cold and bland.

＊Sticky Rice Bun 糯米包🌟 Envelopped in yellow siu mai wrapper, it was stuffed with sticky rice and diced lap cheong. This nostalgic dim sum is becoming harder to find nowadays.

＊Lotus Flower Pastry 宮廷荷花酥🌟 Let’s appreciate how beautifully crafted it was. It was like Taiwanese pineapple pastries (鳳梨酥). The green icing was cloyingly sweet so I scraped it away. It was overall a very sweet dessert but worth a try.

＊Beef Minced Balls 薑蔥牛肉球🌟 ＊Lap Cheong Roll 鴛鴦臘腸卷 ＊Steamed Egg Custard Bun 眼淚奶黃包 ＊ Salted Egg Yolk Layered Cake 蛋黃千層糕 ＊ Deep Fried Taro Dumpling 蜂巢炸芋角 ＊Crab Pork Soup...

If you are willing to pay more for quality, this restaurant is your cup of tea.

One unique selling point here is that it serves some long lost traditional dishes that is too complicated to prepare. It is a wise business decision to provide them only on pre-order menu. Those dishes are not only hard to do but also hard to do right. I will come back for them and update this review 😎

Overall quality is good and satisfying 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 🍽 Food: above standard. I didn't see the drink list among the menus. (We tried： soya source 🐔😋😋😋😋😋; source tastes just right, good balance between the chicken and the soua source. Fried boneless 🐟 on stick (Harpadon nehereus)😋😋😋😋😋; the chef wisely make fish skewer, so they won't jammed together and affect the texture of the coating. Fried 🥚with sprouts and crab meat 😋😋😋😋😋; a difficult to do right dish but they delivered almost 🈵️！if the cooking time of the egg is a little bit less, it will be perfect ! Steam fresh and dried 🥬 😋😋😋😋, the fresh 🥬 was cut at just the right time, so the texture is prefect but i can tasted bitterness on some which shall not be in choy sum🤷🏻‍♀️. 3 dried seafood classic steam 🍚😋😋😋😋) 🧱 Interior : decent interior and cleaner than usual 🤵🏻‍♀️ Service : proper, just right. Though service ratio can raise a little bit 💰 Price: you pay for what you eat, worth the value. (We paid $1300 for 5 dishes with soft drinks)

Tips: there is a complimentary dessert to finish the dinner. However, if you want to order a-la-cart option, you need to do one...