Wonde Harbor Restaurant — Restaurant in Hacienda Heights

Classic looking dim sum place with chaotic service.

Dim sum dishes start at $5 and can increase to $9 really quickly if you're not careful of the size chart they point out at the top of the menu.

Be aggressive with getting attention from staff and make sure you're asking for everything in one shot. This will either work in your favor or you will have to find someone else to bring you what the other forgot about.

Nothing entirely wrong if you're not familiar with that kind of dining experience but definitely bring someone that isn't anxious about acting like you're at a hole in the wall.

All that to point out that the aesthetics outplay the service. It's still a very old school style restaurant.

As of Aug 2024 your best value dish to order for 2-3 people will be the 22.99 lobster special. It's about 2 pounds of lobster with options for sauce and noodles.

Overall, dishes were good and they try to crank out the siu mai as quickly as they can before running out but if you're waiting a bit for it then it just means you're getting one fresh off...

Dim sum spot where you order ahead via paper menu. Came here on a Sunday around 11am and waited approximately 25 minutes for a table of 3. You’re given a piece of paper with your number on it and then you give it to the hostess once it’s called. After you’re seated, you can select the tea you’d like (they had chrysanthemum which was nice given that I usually only see jasmine) and then you fill out the menu with however many items you’d like to order. 12 dishes is what we usually get for 3 people and we usually end up with some leftovers.

The portions of the dough for the buns and minced pork puff pastry were large, but could have used more filling. The lotus wrapped sticky rice came in two pieces and that was also quite filling. I would recommend the siu mai and the baked pork buns.

Credit cards accepted. Free parking available in the lot. Restrooms available in the back. Indoor dining only. There’s a waiting area outside with plenty of benches. Good...

The dim sums were okay, but nothing special. The salted egg chicken knee joints were excellent; Shumeis could use some improvement as they lack the proper textures that you find in Hong Kong; radish cake was a “meh”; porridge was also another “meh”; the fried shrimp balls were dry and hard to chew (a hard pass on them). All in all it’s okay to eat here occasionally, but there are definitely better dim sum places in this area.

Update: so we’ve returned to this place again with some friends. The server delivered three dishes as soon as we’d ordered, so to no one’s surprise, these three dishes were cold and not crispy as they were supposed to be. So those three dishes got an “F” and we hardly ate from those three dishes. The other dishes were much better and were cooked more recently. So they got a “C”. The lobster noodle was okay, so that...