One Dim Sum — Restaurant in Amsterdam

This family run dim sum specialist should be considered a hidden gem. Tucked away just a few hundred meters from the hustle and bustle of Leidseplein and PC hooft straat.

Amsterdam has a lot of great Chinese restaurants. With dimsum there are some really good big players around. But this small nice family run dim specialist ranks right up there.

Unlike the other restaurants they serve mainly dim sum and hardly serve any main courses. So don’t expect roast duck or cha sieuw dishes. As far as I know they only have noodles/kue tiau or vegetables as main dish. All other are dim sum. Recently we noticed that they had further upgraded their game. Adding a menu filled with pictures. So now even newbies knows what they are ordering even if they have only know what it looks like and never know the actually names.

Their menu is very extensive and has all the dim sum favorites.My favorite dishes here are the cheaugfan,rice rolls. These are very soft without losing its structure or becoming lumpy. Just the way I like them. Also their rettich cake is really good. Especially in XO sauce or Singaporean style. Other dim sum staples are very good too. Does not disappoint. Just use your eyes to choose your dish. Make sure t]when you order to mix between fried, baked and steamed dim sum.

It’s not perfect though. Because they unfortunately don’t serve a self brewed Chinese ice tea. But even in a hot day…a pot of hot jasmine tea is a perfect accompaniment for a dim sum lunch.

But the best part is actually its price. By far the most affordable dim sum place in Amsterdam. Dim sum in amsterdam is really expensive. 40/50€ per person is the norm in the big restaurants. But here it’s still around 30/35€. This place seems to be always available for walk in. While most big sum places in amsterdam are always full and need to make reservations especially during lunch hours. So that’s why I consider this affordable family run dim sum specialist a hidden gem. Still to be safe in future…call to...

The enviroment is clearly a non traditional chinese restaurant. I assume they just took the old place and just polish it. They could easily fit more tables in but did not to create a more relax and more upper class environment. I will recommend to book a table as it is not a big restaurant. They serve all day dim sum dishes but still have some limited selection on a more full size dishes.

Staff is very friendly not your chinese restaurant (if you come or not I do not mind).

The prices are very fair especially in this area, the quality is also there but it is slightly adjust to the prices in size of the portion and the ingredients but still above average. I will say if they blow up to a more traditional sized with a more extent menu it will really help to attract chinese audience.

Quality of the tea is not that great below average.

Overall not sure for a basic meal (not too full) I needed like 5 dim sum dishes that is around 30 euro.

I will recommend western people to try this place out to have a base knowlege of the quality in chinese dim sum cuisine.

4/10 Good: service, prices, environment Do better: size of...

Very good dim sum. The highlight was the har gao which is my test for a dim sum restaurant. Shrimp pieces were large so that the filling retains the texture of shrimp. I don’t trust restaurants that use finely minced filling that suggest scraps have been used. The chicken siu mai was good too. Not rubbery and overcooked as siu mai sometimes can be.

Stuffed aubergine was deep fried rather than the pan fried cantonese version I am used to. I am always happy to see dim wrapped in tofu skins on a menu, as these are unusual. However the steamed parcels with carrot, chicken and shitake were disappointingly bland. I am more accustomed to the fried tofu skins rolls.

I was sorry to see too late that my favourite xiao long bao (broth filled Shanghai dumplings) were offered. They were hidden in the steamed bun section instead of the steamed dumpling section of the menu.

Atmosphere is modern and airy. On a Friday at lunchtime most of the clientele were Asian ladies who lunch. There was light jazz playing, accompanied by the sound of giggling, well...