Canning Dim Sum - Miri, Sarawak — Restaurant in Borneo

Decent variety of halal dim sum and Chinese food. Located inside of Imperial Palace Hotel (pass through the hotel entrance, turn to the left). Service was quick though breakfast service was quite packed. Staffs were not very welcoming and not smiley.

The waiter brought the selection of dim sum to our table, the following orders can be selected at the counter behind. Though if the dim sum counters are closed, orders are written.

As it is halal, majority of the dim sum are chicken and prawn based. They are very generous with the amount of prawns inside each dim sum.

Heres what we recommend: FOUR SEASONS BLESSING. The beautiful and colourful dim sum that you see advertised around. Made with natural food colouring; orange for capsicum, green for spinach, blue for butterfly pea flower (and white for the usual). All are prawn dumplings but with the the respective flavours. The skin was decent, not too floury and chewy.

FRIED ASSORTED DIM SUM. Their fried things are really good. Like the prawn in beancurd skin, cheese in beancurd skin and wantans. Crispy though a little bit too oily.

FRIED CARROT CAKE. Really tasty but the carrot cake was quite mushy and not firm and crispy on the outside.

CHEONG FUN. The sambal is inconsistent, some days are delicious and some days are sour. The skin wasn’t smooth but it wasn’t unpleasantly thick and floury. Pretty decent.

PAU. The popular pizza pau with its unique half red, half white exterior. It wasn’t great but wasn’t bad either but the bun was definitely too thick and dense, overpowering the inside flavours. The salted egg pau was quite good with gooey warm salted egg oozing out.

CANTONESE WANTAN MEE. A slight wok hei flavour but mostly soy sauce. The wantan was fried and placed in the soup. Served with char siu chicken which was pretty flavourful and sweet.

CANTONESE FRIED KUEY TIAW. Not what the picture shows. The sauce is clear with very little egg and no egg yolk on the top unlike the picture. On the other hand, the kuey tiaw noodles have a strong wok hei, similar to a very decent dry kuey tiaw. After adding some soy sauce and chili, the flavour intensifies and the creaminess goes through. However, was upset that the dish was not the same as the picture.

Overall, pretty good halal dim sum. Price was reasonable for the portion. I would definitely recommend to try and would...

CONS: Went there at 8.30am for breakfast. Only can order from menu and no dimsum yet as they said it starts at 9am.

However when it's 9am, the dimsums weren't even out yet and when they did came out, limited choices were available to choose from (4-5 varieties only). Canning dimsum right? So people come here for what? For DIMSUM duhh. Be more prepared please!

Service was slow, waiters were abit unprofessional and unprepared. Waiters kept on checking the order chit if our food/beverage have arrived but eventually failed to keep track of our Laksa Sarawak (they forgotten about it as i heard someone screamed "huh??! laksa?!!"). I kid you not i was flabbergasted and disappointed as this is a hotel established by a well known company in Sarawak. It's not even a new hotel for Godsake!

The taste of their food was so so only. 2/5. I don't expect Gordon Ramsay level but come on, where's the hotel food standard? Price was also on the high side coz it's a hotel but it was not worth the price.

PROS: This is gonna be a short one.

Erm, -Good environment (coz it's a hotel?) -typical classical restaurant music -free flow of hot water

Told ya it's gonna be a short one. Doesn't feel like hotel standards at all. If it's an Inn, then i can understand. Kopitiam or small cafe has a better standard and taste.

So was it worth it? Sorry not sorry but it's a big fat No from me. Ming xin cafe or Grand Palace Hotel has better varieties of dimsum and taste better and not to mention...

Well its halal dim sum..

The coffee is too sweet.. the default is too sweet.. waitress never inform when ordering.

The "prawn dimsum" come with many colors. I personally don't like it because the wrapping is too thick and the inner prawn filling doesn't taste good..

Cheongfun - the sambal nice

The "liu shar pao" or salted egg bun similar to conventional bakery shop "kaya bun".. the bun is too firm I don't know why

The other Pao also terrible.

Chicken Feet - 1/5

The selection of dimsum very limited..

The frying dimsum(popiaah, pastry) section was disappointed.. elder ppl might have trouble to chew the thick wrapping..

fry carrot cake - the egg is more than the carrot cake..

Very bad experience overall.. the price is at higher side because its aircond.....