Huang Tsa Sa

Inattentive, indifferent, it’s as if I was never there!
I was standing at the counter in plain sight, I tried to get a table for 4, but for some reason, the host was helping everyone who lined up behind me!
They need to get their act together!
It doesn’t matter if a restaurant has good good but embarrassingly bad service. Just because I don’t look Chinese isn’t grounds to ignore me!

王家沙 is the Chinese name of this restaurant (totally don’t understand what became of the English, sounds like a direct translation haha). Anyway, this place has always been one of my family’s go-​to lunch places back in HK whenever we are around the Taikoo Shing area. Their dishes are mainly Shanghainese.
I always found their décor interesting because they pretty much stuck tea pots and plates sideways on the walls of different colours — pretty neat! Service is decent, it varies. Sometimes when they are super busy, it’s hard to flag down a waiter. But when it’s casual, they notice you easily and would refill your tea constantly.
Their soup dumplings and pan-​fried buns are super delicious! The dumplings are made well so that the soup is secured inside yet the dumpling skin is thin (key component to look for in a soup dumpling). As for the buns, the bottom is fried and burnt just right while the inside is saucy and steamy too. I think all their cold dishes are great — any pick would be a good choice!
Their main dishes and noodles are not bad too. They have a large selection of both noodles and rice. Our family especially likes the soy-​sauced noodles with yellow eel as well as dan-​dan noodles 擔擔麵.