Triumph Valley — Restaurant in Renton

I am going to dive deep into this review. I promise that I am not over exaggerating at all. This is the most amazing dim sum in the Pacific Northwest. I'm happy I came across this place

I live on new West Seattle Island usually I don't leave unless necessary for two obvious reasons mainly no bridge situation and when I crave dim sum I end up in international district BUT today I was visiting family in Renton & on the way home I was planning on getting some dinner to kill time. I have never been to Triumph Valley & thought it would be great choice to take being that they have dim sum & hot pot choices at first I didn't notice what the place was but I turned around as soon as I seen that it said both dim sum & hot pot.

Upon entering Seeson kindly greeted us & promptly took our temperature then seated us. The colors in the restuarant are fantastic and it's very spacious inside very very clean which was highly important to me being that I have a 1 year old. My family decided on dim sum, the order style is like other places where you mark on the paper menu what you would like & they have a lot of great choices to choose from.

Our order consisted of Chicken feet, Chinese broccoli, fried shrimp ball, siu mai, lotus leaf rice, chinese sausage over rice and fried glutinous rice dumplings & BBQ buns.

I have to start with the most delicious choice I made which was the chicken feet. They make the best chicken feet I have ever had hands down. They were so juicy and the flavor was so amazing they were very easy to eat. I ate an entire order to myself unapologetically haha.

My second favorite was definitely the chinese broccoli I can't quite put my finger on what it is steamed with but it tastes so good definitely one of the most fresh that I have ever had. My one year old loved it as well which made me happy.

BBQ buns I was only allotted one bite out of the whole order that being said they were inhaled before I coule even get to finishing the one I started with. They were cooked perfectly and tasted very good not dry, very fresh.

Siu mai & fried shrimp balls were fresh fresh I especially loved the siu mai with their chili oil the pair was perfect.

My chinese sausage over rice & lotus leaf rice was taken home and I can only imagine what it is going to taste like I'll be back with a possible update but I have no doubt it will not disappoint me even after it's time in between.

The customer service that I received today was just as fantastic as the food. I will most definitely be back for some hot pot and dim sum. My new favorite place. Thank you all...

The food in this place is fantastic. I've eaten Dim Sum in Monterey Park CA where the real good down home stuff is, and this place honestly beats my old favorite spot in a few dishes.

I don't know what they do to their green beans but they're awesome. The broccolini could have been an off day it wasn't my fave. The fried shrimp balls and Siu Mai were the ones that to me, were better than my old LA standbys. Also the eggplant stuffed with Shrimp was absolutely knockout awesome.

Food is great, no doubt. Terrific.

Now for some downsides. . . The tea was good, but we weren't offered a choice. At great dim sum places, you're offered a choice of usually three teas, depending how fermented you like them. I enjoy a good strong pu'er tea, and because pay attention I know the difference. We received a mild, medium, breakfast blend type tea. It was okay.

This restaurant does not serve you the little dishes of hot mustard and cocktail sauce that you can usually get most of the better dim sum places I've been to. I know it isn't just me asking either because the waiter INSTANTLY said "no we do not have hot mustard or cocktail sauce" when I asked. That was a bummer because it goes SO WELL with the dishes s they serve. It would seriously kick it up maybe a whole star on that alone for me.

The other thing that really made it difficult was the wait. I think it has to do with how they run the restaurant. Rather than the traditional dim sum cart, meandering between tables, they have a digital menu. You send items to the kitchen, and you can keep adding to it. People definitely take advantage of this, because it took us FOREVER to get seated. We checked in and waited for at least an hour and a half. However, when I see 90% Asians at a dim sum restaurant, I know better, I sit my butt down and wait.

I will definitely consider going on a slower weekend. It was mothers day and it was brutal. All in all, 6 out of 10 but the 6 is pure food awesomeness. I would put up with most of it (not the wait) again.

It's also pretty clean in appearance and they have live Spot shrimp. Dungies,...

Update 11/21: i have been ordering regularly for the past month or more and the food is always amazing but tonight it was nearly inedible. I don't know if it sat longer than usual or what, but the shumai and hom sui gok tasted old (like old meat), and I bit into sand/unclean shrimp in the shrimp dumplings. This has never happened before. Also, i finally got to try the pot stickers, which they are always out of, and they're just frozen - deep fried gyoza like they serve at teriyaki places. SO disappointed by that. I thought maybe they were made in house and there were only so many. It was so bad I got a refund via grubhub and threw most of it out. I want to give them another chance so maybe I will go pick up the food myself sometime soon but this experience has soured everything drastically.

For whatever reason DoorDash doesn't list this restaurant in my area? I had to find it via Google/yelp. I am SO glad I trusted the reviews because the food is AMAZING! Mind you, it took nearly an hour to get to me (cooking and delivery) and it was STILL the best dimsum I've had in a long time. I can't wait to go sit down and eat here when it's safer to do so! If their dimsum tastes good after sitting that long? I can't even imagine how delicious it is fresh! The only thing that didn't travel well was a rice roll, but that's to be expected - however the zhaliang noodle held up ok! Probably because it was wrapped around a donut and not more noodle. I also got shumai, shrimp dumpling, and hom sui gok (deep-fried pork dumplings). I thought the hom sui gok was going to be a pot stickers based on the description! Soso good. Rather than the traditional football shape, they look like pears! They're SO cute! The zhaliang (rice noodle/donut) ... Out of this world. I was kinda sad there wasn't any sesame paste with it but it was so crunchy and tasty that I didn't care at all! I ate almost all of it right away!

Ok I'm rambling because I am full and happy. This place is absolutely delicious and the prices are great, especially for the quality!

Will absolutely...