点心之家 Dim Sum Recipe — Restaurant in Sabah

A good place for dim sum

The shop is located on the busiest strip of road on Lintas. Parking is an abysmally chaotic and stressful problem. The most common time to patronise the shop is during the weekends so if you plan on beating the crowd, it’s best to come in the early mornings some time between 7 to 8am is best. Tables are extremely limited and they share an alleyway with another coffee shop next door which makes the whole area even more packed with people. The shop is hitherto not as well known to tourists as the New WK is which makes a good alternative to avoid tourist crowded shops is Kota Kinabalu.

Service is nothing to write home about and as this is a typical coffee shop, one should not expect 5 star services from the staff. Although much of the staff are hired help, seeing as the restaurant is family owned so some of the servers are family members so it wise to be respectful. Service could get really slow during peak hours so you will need to be patient and so far from my numerous visits, they have yet to make severe mistakes while serving customers.

The food is more traditional versus what you would find in more famous restaurants. I highly recommend trying the scallop dumplings 带子卖 & 带子饺, the scallops are big and juicy enough to be worth the money. I personally also like the bean skin prawn 腐皮虾卷 & beancurd skin with sauce 豉汁鲜竹卷. The Cheong Funs are not really that good so unless you are a devoted fan of them, you’re not missing out anything. Besides dim sum, they do sell noodles and rice as well.

Prices are a little steep, as with other dim sum shops in Sabah, and is rising by the years.

Price - $$ and increasing Service - Fair Food - Good Location - Good but difficult

Will I come back - Yes Would I...

Food takes forever to be fully served. Food served half and waited for another 30 mins for the char siew chee cheong fun, 2 har gao and beef ball that never come until we decided to leave. Asked 2 staffs on this all never get back. When asked lady boss, she said chee cheong fun all take turn to make so have to wait. Super damn not friendly and never even take some effort to look at our order or ask the kitchen. After some time she brought out some chee cheong fun and served next table who came much later than us. When asked the boss, claims because they ordered plain? What nonsense reason given. Will not come...

Taste: 5/5 Presentation: 4/5 Portion size: 4/5 4 Temperature: 4/5 Service: 4/5 Value for money: 4/5 Overall: 4/5

As dim sum goes dis plc is not haf bad. Chicken feet is big but a little dry 4me the rest of the dishes were nice n abot the same like most places but I wld rate this plc in the top 5 dim sum outlet wen compared to the big boys. A definite must visit plc if u love dim sum. I will...