Dimsum Chabura Hatyai — Restaurant in Songkhla Province

Food - 🌟🌟🌟 Service - 🌟🌟🌟 Atmosphere - 🌟🌟🌟 Overall - 3.0⭐️ ——— We visited Hatyai to celebrate the New Year’s Eve. Maybe it wasn’t the right time to visit the tourist’s famous restaurant like this one.

They have like two branches close to each other. The one we visited does not have that long queue, but still there are too many customers. You will need to line up before they welcome you to your seat. Then, you may choose to order their food from the menu, or go to the front and choose the dimsums or other small plates for them to cook. You’ll be given a tray and number, and once you chose the items that you like, you can pass the tray to them and take the number to your table .

There are few things that we think can be improved. They did not label the food, or at least the buns that we were not sure what we we’re actually picking. So, most of the times, we just trust our guts or try to ask them about the food. The table that we were sitting is like an additional table, maybe to accommodate the overwhelming number of customers, but they didn’t provide the sauce and chopsticks. We requested a few times but we realised they were too busy, so we have to go to the table beside us for the condiments. But eventually they did comeback and give us the requested items.

From our personal opinion, there’s nothing interesting about the food here. Everything is just okay, but we feel like we can get better dimsums somewhere else. Maybe we don’t order the right food, but it’s because there were too much people. We also think that the place is famous because it has the halal status...

Went out of curiosity as I heard rave reviews about the place.

There are two main menus you can order from; the dim sum and ala carte. All Halal.

Dim Sum - You will need to request for a tray, with a number stand for the dim sum orders. You choose the dim sum plates of your choice from the chiller display and put all you want in the tray given. Then, you give the tray to one of the staff there to send your chosen dim sum plates to be cooked in the kitchen. They will send to you afterwards.

Ala carte - You order from the menu that is given to you by one of the workers as usual.

The place is really crowded but table turnover is quite fast. Avoid peak eating time if possible. Tables are cleaned very efficiently, but can't say the same about the floors, which is understandable since there were too many customers coming in and out of the place.

Taste of the food is just okay for me, nothing to shout about but not really disappointed as I didn't put high hopes on the taste.

Ordered the Gyoza too, nice texture and bigger than the typical gyozas you get at the usual Japanese places.

Price wise, very affordable. Suitable for big families and sharing with friends. The workers are all friendly, able to speak local and Malay.

Recommended if you like to have...

This place is so famous, I have high expectations but immediately disappointed when arriving. The dim sum selection is not that varies, I thought when the resto is named as 'dimsum....' it must have a wide selection of dim sum.

It looks like it has various 'dimsum' because they put the small plate of let say - fish ball, sad looking chawanmunshi, prawn tempura, colourful bao, imitation crab wrap with rice paper and salad, and mushroom in the fridge (where you can choose and take on tray), however NO REAL DIMSUM is available except for those 2 or 3 varieties- which is I'm sure coming from a frozen ready-pack, it does not look nice even at first sight.

What makes it worse is they even steam the prawn tempura and fried spring rolls to re-heat them together with the 'dimsum', it become mushy when you eat them. I hope they realized steaming fried food is not a good choice.

The crab soup we order is too salty. Even though it has a chunk of real crab meat, the saltiness makes...