Hungkan Dim Sum — Restaurant in Wanhua District

Please report this business.

Terrible place to eat, don't go here. The reviews are a lie because they give out free desserts. Went here with my girlfriend for our final meal in Taipei and were utterly disappointed. There are so many places that are cheaper and better and not this overpriced rubbish.

Staff members are rude and if you look at any of the reviews they're combative and unapologetic, trying to save themselves from the embarrassment of their awful establishment.

The restaurant looks nice on the inside but the food is dry and unappetising, and we only realised that it only has good reviews because of the free dessert that you get which made it all taste that much worse.

They also have a hidden 10% service charge. It's on the menu but it's very tiny in small print, only in Chinese, and they don't tell you about it until after you've eaten. I calculated our meal and the increase in price was ridiculous. It's overpriced and bland and put a sour end on our trip. If you go to Taiwan just avoid this place.

The bad reviews really show this place for what it is - a shoddily run restaurant by even shoddier people who can only get good reviews by offering something free as opposed to cooking good quality, good value, food.

I'll be telling everyone I know specifically about this place and specifically not to come here. I am livid that I didn't check the reviews beforehand, which is in part my fault, because the extra money that I spent here for an awful meal, could have been spent on a wonderful and long-lasting memory.

I said earlier too but the staff are rude. Didn't like them. They kept coming over to take our plates while we were still eating from it. As soon as we finished a plate they came to clear it which felt overbearing and uncomfortable. Definitely not the norm here as other restaurants didn't do that. It felt as though they were constantly watching us and waiting for us to be done with the plates.

I told them to stop offering free dessert and check their reviews because everything is fake. I hate this place.

See the pictures I posted for the dessert stuff and service charge.

Didn't feel like they deserved my money at the end and didn't want to pay it, I also saw the same staff member who collected our payment side-eye me as I was heading to the lift.

Not very welcoming to foreigners and I'd have much rather had eaten convenience store food. Stick to anything else here.

Outside of Donki there's a sweet guy who sells chicken for cheap, go there instead it's way nicer and genuinely one of the best things I ate on the trip. This place was the worst.

Edit: I have reported this business because according to Google's review service, they prohibit restaurants leaving reviews in exchange for goods and services. I hope this place gets shut down 👍🏻

TL;DR: bad place, don't go, not worth your time or money and the only way they can get 5 star reviews is by offering...

WORST RESTAURANT IN TAIPEI! I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS. We went to this restaurant to enjoy authentic Taiwanese dishes but ended up being so frustrated and sad. They have a staff who knows how to speak basic English but they sent the staff who can’t. We tried our best to communicate and even use translators like Google translate and Papago for the photos for us to have a SMOOTH TRANSACTION. We asked for the menu and they didn’t give all of it then when they knew that we will be paying via card they instantly showed the menu for 4 and 6 which we are asking if all the food in there is included and asking for more details as we also want to try their dimsum. Within seconds of conversation the lady showed the receipt and even said that the order is punched and our other members can’t order anymore which shocked us because we haven’t even ordered yet- TAKE NOTE: WE USED TRANSLATORS. She keep insisting that we said yes to that feast meal which costs around NTD 8,000 plus. We are in utter shock and dismayed with what happened. They said we can’t cancel the order even if we really didn’t order then the food came in- all of them are cold like it’s been cooked hours ago (we felt like it’s their way of scamming foreigners or their way of giving canceled orders to others? Not sure but this is the worst) we tried one bite because we are like “there’s nothing to do anyway” but the food is not even good. We kept on communicating showing how frustrated we were but they kept on insisting. They made our Taipei experience bad. The crew are even laughing when we ended up just leaving and not eating all the food because we are so frustrated and can’t eat anymore because they are looking at us and mocking us. We went to the counter to pay and one staff even laugh so hard and went to the other waiter told him something while pointing at our group. We went there with full respect, we paid the food that we didn’t eat nor order. This is the worst restaurant and make sure that if you will go in here you know what to say or that you are aware of the surroundings because they are 100% scammers if you are a foreigner. It’s the one at the second floor in the photo. WORST...

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