Diamond Banquet Hall

We come here often as it is a family favourite. It is spacious and beautiful for a dim sum place or dinner. They also have amazing lion dancers around Chinese New Year time with a banquet at dim sum time.
The food is always good quality and hot, in my experience. A big shout out to Frankie who is so awesome and friendly and checks in on my kid. What a sweetheart!

I’ve been eating here almost every Sunday for lunch, the food is pretty good and most employees are quite cheerful!

This was almost a 4. Came for my cousin’s wedding last Saturday night. Private room, which was nice.
Had: some super expensive banquet meal.
Roasted piglet — juicy meat, crispy skin, but not the best I’ve ever had. I’d give it a 3.5÷5.
Stir-​fried snow peas, celery, scallop, conch — Conch was delicious. The rest of it was fairly standard.
Shark fin soup with crab meat — good amount of shark fin. Real crab meat. My gripe with this was that it had the strangest consistency. It was slimy (like snot). It did not drip. It was gooey. The broth was also quite bland.
Snow pea shoots with abalone and sea cucumber — abalone was tender. Snow pea shoots were fresh and delicious. They cooked the snow pea shoots in our room, so they were still super hot when they served them to us.
Crispy chicken — crispy skin, tender meat.
Lobster stir fried with maggi sauce — Typical.
I believe it was steamed bass, but I could have been mistaken — I’m not usually a big fan of steamed fish at restaurants (I prefer it at home), but this was delicious.
E-​fu noodles in broth with dumpling — I am not a fan of e-​fu in broth. I like my e-​fu braised or wok-​fried. This was alright. Dumpling had a thin skin and a lot of shrimp and Chinese fungus in it. The filling was a tad chunky for me though.
Abalone fried rice — looks like yeung chow fried rice, but with what looks like bits of Chinese shiitake mushroom. Not mushroom. Abalone. Good amount of abalone. Tender abalone. Delicious fried rice.
Desserts — assorted cookies, peanut sweet soup with black bean glutinous rice dumplings. Peanut soup was not fragrant enough. It was also the same gooey, slimy texture as the shark fin soup. Cookies were not bad.
Service was quite good. I’m docking marks for the consistencies of both the shark fin soup and the dessert soup. Other than that, not bad.

Been here a couple times for dim sum now, but I’m still on the fence on whether I like it or not. There a couple good things, but also a couple not so good things.
First off, the food is okay. Certain things are done well, while others are definitely things I would steer clear. There is a Taro and Lap Cheung Fried Rice that was really well done. Good amount of ingredients in the rice, and tasted delicious. They also have good Fried Octopus Tentacles.
However, the Sticky Rice Rolls are impossible to eat. They are completely stuck together to the point that you can even take them apart to eat. You’d essentially have to rip them apart. Also, the desserts here are a bit lacklustre. Everything is mediocre in terms of taste, except the Mango Pudding.
Service is not too bad, food does come rather quickly to the table, but there are small things that could be changed. The order sheets are beautifully printed on glossy paper, but when you want order another round (or two), they don’t give you a new sheet! So you’d have to write on the same sheet over and over again, but then they explain they don’t understand what you want to order! I would recommend NOT printing on such nice paper and having copies where you can hand out multiples.
Overall, not a place I enjoy going to, but my grandparents like it, so I’m sure we’ll be back…

They have the pan fried veggie bean curd rolls that i cant find anywhere else. so they have my love forever. it is on the pricey side of dim sum.

Used to think this restaurant is alright until now. Not only they provide poor service, but also serve left over food. We ordered BBQ duck noodles. First the meat doesn’t look fresh. The meat was reheated by deep frying. Even the server admitted the BBQ duck was left over. He argued, the restaurant was open late, how would they have time to make it. To my understanding, all of the BBQ meat have to make fresh everyday, early in the morning. It is common sense, if you don’t have the ingredients, don’t serve it. That means they don’t take their food quality seriously. They don’t care about your health seriously. The noodles they serve is not even the one they described. I would not recommend this restaurant to anyone.

Great dim sum! The place was easy to get to, with lots of parking. We had no trouble getting a table (even without reservations!) and we added several new favourites to our list of «must-​have» dishes (peanut pancakes!). Order off cards. As the restaurant was part of a large plaza full of different Asian restaurants, we treated ourselves to some Vietnamese coffee afterwards.
Visited: June 15, 2014
Update:
Our group went back on June 21, 2015.
It was still good food at a good price, but was somewhat noisy. It would be worth returning to with a smaller group at a table in a less noisy location.
We had seafood pizza again, the vegetarian goose (tofu), which was deliciously seasoned; we had beef meatballs with dried mandarin; chicken-​ginger buns as a nice change from BBQ pork buns; and curried cuttlefish, mashed taro, pork-​ginger dumplings, and lots of shrimp dishes too!
With 9 people we came away at just $ 13/​person. A great deal!

2^nd time here. Nothing really to point out. Tried an item I have never seen before which was the deep fried sticky rice. Not much flavour and didn’t really like it.

Came here on a weekday morning at around 11am, and there was only 1 other table there! The restaurant itself is very spacious and even when we left, there were only about 6 other tables there, so the morning/​lunch time is definitely very sparse!
In terms of food, all the dimsum we tried tended to be on the saltier side, but the overall quality of food was good. Portions were on the smaller side — there were only 2 small pieces of sponge cake! Service is excellent (especially when you have so few tables) and the tea itself is also very nicely done.
Prices are on the higher end compared to other dimsum places nearby, but the environment is amazing and a lot less frantic than typical dimsum restaurants!

My new place to have Sunday dim sum. Buy the VIP card and get 10% off your meal. Price if the card varies depending on how long …3 months, a year, etc… But worth it if you come a couple times a month, which we do.
I prefer the check off and order vs waiting for the carts to come around. Food quality is good. Price is fair compared to downtown places (and food is much better).
Host is very nice and remembers my family.
Service is better than other places (so says our friends who joined us today).

This review is for the dim sum only.
I came for dim sum last weekend with a big group. We ordered about 2 orders of dim sum per person plus a stir fried rice. All the dishes were tasty; the quality definitely beat the flat price dim sum places. The dim sum, though not exquisite, were damn good, and they were reasonably priced starting at $ 2.7 for small (forgot the prices of the other sizes). The portion of the stri fried rice was good, even if it was at lunch price.
Overall, a solid 3 stars.