Hong Kong Garden Seafood & Dim Sum Cafe

Slow and unorganized. My friends and I had been there for 30mins, but none show up.

HORRIBLE, customer service is non existence here lol. You have to literally walk away from your table and beg someone to place your order. My favorite part of today is that literally the whole staff had lunch at the same time and I counted 20 people swarming to grab a portion of their hot pot meal… not one server to help customers. They were like rats coming out of no where for them selves a bite to eat but non to keep their business running. This facility is disgusting. I have never been so disgusted. I consider myself a happy go lucky Unilocaler… but this is the WORST.

Wife and I finally found a more acceptable dim sum place in the valley. We were spoiled when our friends in LA took us to lunasia for the first time and have been trying to find a comparable place in Vegas. They have all your typical dim sum dished and also crab congee — which was new to me. It had pretty good flavor to it and actually had a whole crab in it. If you’re into that kind of stuff — you should at least try it. 1 server and 1 busser were there serving probably 7 tables but they were hauling ass. Good job guys! Keep up the food quality.

I love the traditional feel to this place. I’m a Little confused how do you order dim sum. Most of the reviews say they love the dim sum. Normally I’d see carts but j felt a bit rushed. We did order and loved everything. I’ll be coming back soon probably sooner especially if I can try the dim sum. All I need to do is know how to order it

Really solid dim sum. While the servers are actually quite attentive, coming to check on us when I had mentioned wanting a specific dim sum, the carts came around too infrequently.
I really enjoyed this beef tendon and rice noodle dish that I’ve never seen at other dim sum places. It’s more of a normal lunch dish, but was good to share among a large group. Beef tendon was really soft and savory.
shumai — Really savory and juicy, somehow significantly better than other versions I’ve had. Really standout.
egg tarts — They are amazing. Seriously get them, really nice flaky crust and soft egg custard center.
seaweed salad — Surprised to see this at dim sum, looks like seaweed salad from Japanese restaurants, but it was really good. Nice of have some «veggies» in the otherwise meat/​seafood and fried foods heavy dim sum meal.
tofu skin wrap — This was also very juicy and delicious.
thousand year egg congee — a bit watery and underwhelming. Wouldn’t recommend.
In general everything we tried was really good. Plus it was really cheap, with our bill (after stuffing our faces) coming out to less than $ 10 after tax and tip.

Food was great. I highly recommend to people who wants a taste of hong kong. Pork bun and roast pork was the best I’ve had in a while.
Service wasn’t great though. It was hard trying catch attention. Other than that. I recommend to eat here.

This restaurant has changed owners countless times. Every time it re-​opens we try it. I would say this is now our go to dim sum place. They finally remodeled and it looks open and more accessible. If you see people line, it’s worth the wait. The price is very reasonable just don’t expect good quality service. But you will get service.

So I haven’t had dim sum in a while and the only place I had tried in Vegas prior to HK was Ping Pang Pong, which was as far as I can remember, decent but nothing extremely WOW. I’m no super expert on dim sum but being from the Bay Area and eating at many of the places there like Yank Sing, I’d like to think I know at least a bit.
First of all, I’m used to there being a wait. I don’t know why but no matter what place you went to in the Bay Area, there was ALWAYS a line. Especially on Sunday. The place was fairly full but thankfully there was a table open for myself and 2 others ready to go! Just be aware that the girl behind the front counter is more there to ring you out at the end of the meal than to greet/​seat you. We waited for a few beats before someone came and got us.
Service was good, the carts stopped often, gracefully passed us when it looked like our table was pretty full already, stopped when we asked and we had people clearing plates/​filling drinks/​asking if things were okay. Our drink orders were taken as soon as we sat down and came out promptly. Just beware, they serve their tea HOT. You may want to wait for it to cool down a bit and pouring from the side instead of straight ahead helps. Our tablecloth still got a bit wet in the process though.
Everything tasted pretty on point, though I was sad they didn’t seem to have any xiaolongbao, and to me, had just enough oil to help my cousin with his hangover, lol! We had:
1 kai lan/​Chinese broccoli
1 har cheung/​shrimp noodle rolls
2 har gow/​shrimp dumplings
2 siu mai/​pork & shrimp dumplings
1 lohr bahk go/​pan fried turnip cake
1 daan taat/​egg tart
1 bo luo bao/​pineapple custard bun
And one dish stood out to me because I don’t ever remember seeing it at any other places. and if I have and just didn’t order it before, well shame on me because I’ve been missing out! It’s basically like a sesame ball but it’s filled with char siu instead of red bean paste, only the bottom has sesame seeds and it’s mostly steamed with only the bottom being pan fried a bit. It’s then covered with green onions and just tasted DIVINE! It’s a bit funny getting through the mochi exterior but as it’s fairly plain flavored, it compliments the sweetie and meaty taste of the char siu well. Both my cousin and I were really happy with it!
All together, was $ 55 before tip. Not bad, if you ask me! Overall, a very solid dim sum place! Took home what we couldn’t finish and am happy to have leftovers for later! Will happily come back again and share this place with others!

I eat a lot of dim sum. I’ve tried restaurants in Orange County, Los Angeles china town, east LA and San Francisco. This is the best.
Food is authentic, fresh and very tasty. Their rice porridge is over the top. Made to order you can get it with all kinds of special ingredients from crab to thousand year eggs to kidney. It’s also very reasonably priced about $ 5.
We ate their crispy chow mein with bean sprouts, sticky rice with scrambled egg, xiao mai, rice porridge, white radish cake, pork spareribs, and small egg custard tarts (my favorite dessert).
Food is excellent. Service reasonable. Prices very reasonable. They are generous with portions.

So this is the second location for this chain. The original location is on spring mountain and jones. Same solid food and great prices. The great thing is everything is new and clean I honestly think that they made a great choice by taking over this location from the previous Cathay House. Still my go to dishes here are
Peking Duck
Pan fried seabass– it’s soooo freaking good
Deep fried flounder
Mandarin pork chops
Pan fried seafood chow mein
The great thing too is they have dim sum here as well. So stop by try it out you’ll love that it’s so cheap best eats without burning a hole in your wallet.

How this restaurant positively differentiates itself from all the other Chinese restaurants in town:
1. The ONLY authentic Chinese restaurant that I’ve experienced AMAZING service, which is very surprising since that’s hard to come by for authentic Asian restaurants.
2. Very clean! Clean dining room, clean restrooms, clean everything etc etc etc
3. Solid dishes. Some of their stand-​out dishes that you must try:
–String Beans with XO Sauce
–Dried Bean Curd with Shredded Pork
–Fried Fish Fillet w/​Cream of Corn
The thing is, I wouldn’t go to this place regularly because of the prices. They are about $ 4-​$ 5 higher and with so many Chinese restaurants to choose from, ehHHhHHhh.

Came here twice so far and LOVING this restaurant! When I first came to this restaurant during dinner time, there were MANY choices of food to choose from the menu. There was many different dishes from fish, fried rice, seafood, pork, chicken, and more.
The employees here are nice. There were some food that are especially good. It tasted like my other favorite Chinese restaurant. I would recommend coming to this restaurant because it’s AFFORDABLE AND GOOD!

Been to this place so many times now and I’m so happy I finally got pictures of their food! I think this is one of the best places for dim sum compared to the other places I’ve tried here in Las Vegas.
The restaurant is nice and clean, staff are friendly but the ones that push the cart for the food are always in a rush.
My sibling and I got our regular food from dim sum and it was nice and warm, not cold like other places.
All in all, for sure I will be back to eat here as I’ve been eating here for about 5 or 6 times now! Delicious, fresh and there are many ladies pushing the cart around to get all your food!

Came in for dinner. The menu is vast. Took me a while to dissect it. Had the rainbow jelly fish salad, crunchy, chilled perfection. The filet mignon with Asparagus was well seasoned and so tender.
This place is so authentic. I must come back for dim sum.

Nice and very comfortable restaurant. Dim sum are good, especially the seafood congee. It was fresh and tasty. Service is good.

This place has been around for 30 years or so. It seems that they are under new management and that appears to be a good thing.
The servers were friendly and stayed busy. The décor of the place is very Cantonese and makes you feel like you are in a Chinese restaurant.
They start you off with a light vegetable soup that was tasty and hot. We ordered crispy pork appetizer, crispy skin half chicken and Chinese vegetables with century egg. All three dishes were well prepared and delicious. The food arrived hot and timely.
We will definitely return to this place when we want Cantonese Chinese food.

We stopped by twice now, and wish we couldve eaten here more often. The food is great, service is good and authentic. The 4 stars is due to location and parking.
Great chicken feet, chicken buns, gailan. Basically, TRY EVERYTHING!!!

This is our second time here, the first time 4 days ago for a party in their party room. The food was fantastic so we wanted to try it again.
We ordered one dish that was the same from the other night…#99. Fish fillet with baby mushrooms. It was fantastic!
We had a very nice waitress «Kitty», she was patient and very helpful and selecting our dishes.
This restaurant is very authentic on the menu they have shark fin soup as well as foie gras.
My wife described this Chinese restaurant has the best experience we’ve had in Las Vegas for authentic good Chinese food and excellent customer service.

Best salt and pepper pork. Great waiters, didn’t have to hunt anyone down for refills or orders. Definitely a repeat customer.

The kitchen can’t seem to keep up when it’s busy. Tables were joking with one another about about how when the waitresses kept saying «coming», the meant coming this summer. The food we were able to get was good though and the waitresses were good.

Solid 4-​star experience here. We went for dim sum on Sunday at 11:45am. Two of us had around a 5 minute wait.
Good food with quick & attentive staff. Parking seems like it can be an issue since they only have the one lot. Some items were much better than others. I’d go here again.

If you’ve been to other dim sum restaurants, you’re not missing much here!
My family and I absolutely love dim sum, so when I saw this new place we had to give it a shot. When walking in, we could already tell the ambiance change compared to when it was Cathay house. Much cleaner, however very compact when it came to the seating.
Whenever we go eat dim sum, we usually order the Yang Chow fried rice from the actual menu to accompany the dim sum. There was nothing too special for the fried rice, and it was very very greasy.
The menu breaks down their prices based on the size of the dish, and it was very confusing considering some of the items weren’t even provided on the break down. Because dim sum is pay per order, we usually calculate how much we are getting so we know what to expect when the bill comes. Due to the confusion in pricing, we spent over budget.
The actual dim sum itself wasn’t as satisfying as we hoped it would be. We ordered the shumai, steamed pork bun, shrimp ball, and chicken feet. The best item was in fact the shrimp ball! It definitely took me back to when I use to get authentic dim sum in downtown California.
The water was obviously from the tap, and the taste was so bad we had to order other refreshments to accompany our meal…
Overall, I would never go out of my way to come back here because there are other establishments I enjoy like Orchid Garden. The staff was very nice in general, but it didn’t compensate for the lack of flavor in the dim sum. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t mind coming here if a friend ever suggested to do so, but I myself wouldn’t make the trip.

Our hiking group comes to Chinatown for dim sum every year around Chinese New Year. We went yesterday because one of the group will be in Taiwan during the New Year time. We used to come here when it was the Cathay House and decided to come back.
The member of our group who is going to Taiwan stopped in the week before and reserved the private room for us. The place has been renovated a bit with the main part of the restaurant now all on one floor. Opposite the entrance and down a few steps is the private room with its large, round table with lazy Susan for easy sharing. One problem with the room though is the carts have no way of coming down the steps to the room so you order what you want but you can’t see it like we used to as the carts are wheeled around. A few times one of the women brought a dish to the room to see if we wanted but for the most part, our Asian friend ordered for us.
We got the standard pork shumai, steamed pork buns, sesame balls, and rice noodle rolls. In addition, there was an order for Singapore noodles and chow fun. The Singapore noodles were quite good with a good amount of curry. The food was OK for our lunch.
Service was good but we needed to ask for water which came as we were nearing the end of our meal.
I like the restaurant and it was almost filled. I’m sure we’ll be back another time to enjoy lunch.

This place used to be Cathay restaurant then Jade restaurant for a while. They just reopened as a new business– Hongkong seafood restaurant the past few weeks. (They have another branch by Jones close to 168).
They have complimentary soup during dinner time which is nice especially in a cold winter night. I ordered foie gras with truffles with an Asian twist and that was excellent. Creamy foie gras melts in your mouth and amazingly good. Will probably order this again.
Hubby wanted the tried and true seafood tofu hotpot and salt pepper pork chop, and they did not disappoint.
Service was excellent which is unusual in a real Chinese place. Our server checked on us several times and refilled our teapot without us asking. They also offered complimentary sweet red bean dessert after our meal.
I’m docking one star as the place itself is old and dated although they tried hard to renovate it. The bathroom wasn’t as clean as I want with trash can almost full to the brim. Maybe because we came late night almost closing time for our meal?
Overall, the food and service are excellent and the price is reasonable. I will come back to try their dimsum next time.

Used to come here for years when the place was Cathay House and last week just noticed its under new management or what looks to be as they have a new name and place has been remodeled.
After getting seating in what seems to feel like a back overflow room we waited for service. They only had 3 carts going around and you had to wait or waive them down to get dim sum delivered to your table. The servers were nice but you had to get their attention to get service as they didn’t come around to check up on our table.
Food wasn’t as great from what I remember, service was aight, and just not what it used to be. Will not be coming here again and will need to look for a new spot.

Pretty good dim sum with solid service! Although somewhat far from the strip (10 – 15 min drive), this restaurant in the corner of a somewhat newer plaza served a delicious Cantonese brunch at a reasonable price.
Highlights: shrimp noodle (not har gow– although the har gow was also good), very fresh, not too oily, and great texture, chinese broccoli, egg tarts (nice and crispy, bite size), xiao long bao had some soup
The waiters also took down orders quickly if we didn’t see what we wanted on carts and brought out drinks quickly as well. This is a good alternative to brunch on the strip if you don’t wanna throw down $$$.

Having tried just about every dim sum place in town, there’s no doubt I had to try this place out. I did hold some type of expectation for this place as this is a sister restaurant of the one on Jones (but this location serves dim sum).
Overall, I would say this place has potential.
SERVICE; ⁴⁄₅
Came in on a late Monday afternoon, after the lunch rush. Not packed, but not empty either. We did run into a problem with not being asked what tea we wanted (one of the first things they ask you when you are seated), and we notified them after sitting around. They were sincerely apologetic, and I was surprised because most dim sum places wouldn’t think twice about it. The ladies pushing the cart were also friendly. Didn’t give us that «whatever» attitude. At one point, we finished all our food and no more carts were pushed out. Again, sat around then flagged someone down. Service was great as they were also apologetic, and the guy offered to bring over the dishes we wanted.
ENVIRONMENT; ²⁄₅
I definitely think they could work on how the place looks. Maybe they are still in the process of decorating since they are new? I felt like I was eating in a prison room as there were nothing on the walls at all. Oh well… I am here for the food.
FOOD; 3.5÷5
Unfortunately, I realized that I did not get to try more of what they had to offer which is why I’m docking off stars. Maybe because we came after peak lunch hours, but still disappointing. They should’ve been prepared. I heard good things about their flowing custard bun (lau sa bao), but they said they were out. Wanted to try as it is one of my favorites, and good ones are nonexistent in Vegas. They apparently have soup dumplings too (xiao long bao) but none were available.
Shrimp dumplings (ha gow), rice noodle roll (cheung fan), and egg tarts (dan tat) were very good. Shrimp dumplings were juicy and loved the soy sauce they use for their rice noodle roll though I’ll admit that noodle was not as silky as I would have wanted it. I would say that their egg tarts are more true to Hong Kong style aka flaky crust!

Location is easily visible and parking accessible. Came here with a party of 6. We didn’t have to wait which was great. They offered a decent amount of choices for their dim sum. Spring rolls weren’t part of the dim sum so we had to wait awhile for those to be cooked. Hot tea is priced per person. They have a good amount of staff during lunch time. However, the biggest turnoff was how dirty the restrooms were! Really sad to know that they cannot maintain the cleanliness of their restrooms which kind of speaks to how they maintain their kitchen.
Unilocal 100 CHALLENGE: #3

I’ve never been to other dim sum places in Las Vegas Chinatown… so I can only compare to what I’ve eaten before.
I came here with a party of 7 on a Wednesday afternoon at 12:15 pm. I had called earlier to make sure they still served dim sum and they also took my reservation!
We came at 12:15 pm and they were in a scurry to clean our table and seat is. Okay, that’s fine. But the whole point of «飲茶» is to drink tea along with your food! We didn’t get any service for tea 20 minutes into dining even though the cart ladies were already bombarding us with options.
We ordered quite a bit!
–Fung Zhao (chicken feet) /​/​classic dish. Pretty sweet, not spicy enough. But not bad for what they had!
–Har gau (steamed shrimp dumpling) /​/​Okay, this was butchered. Not so crystal skin and it was cold and falling apart.
–Siu Mai (open topped steamed pork or shrimp dumplings) /​/​a bit too oily for the pork! But still yummy. *Be warned, we found a piece of hair in this. Luckily we could exchange it…*
–Jiu Cai Bau (fried wheat starch skin dumpling with chives) /​/​yum! I would get again. It was a bit on the oily side but stuffed with good amount of meat and thin skin.
–Cha Siu Bao (steamed BBQ pork stuffed buns) /​/​Mehhh. I’m not a huge fan of this item regardless of where I get it.
–Cheong Fan (rolled rice noodles) /​/​errrr. Probably one of the worst I’ve had. Not big and soft like other places! This was tiny and stale… too much soy sauce added and really cold! The beef one was gross, shrimp was doable. Luckily we didn’t order too many!
–Pei Guen (steamed tofu skin roll) /​/​Classic dish that I love! They did okay with this– you seriously can screw up steaming this. But the only complaint I have is that the stuffing inside was way too little and did not have the classic bamboo shoots.
–Lo Mai Gai (steamed glutinous rice) /​/​Not flavorful at all, and barely half a teaspoon of stuffing in the center. Regret!
–Daan taat (egg custard tart) /​/​This was a disappointment (like everything else). But I guess it’s good for the kiddos!
–bowl of intestine soup /​/​too sweet, but I love intestines regardless.
–bowl of pig blood soup /​/​not a super clean taste– can still taste some of the «freshness». Good portion though!
–plate of stir fried beef and rice noodles /​/​Good! Pretty decent potion, not too oily and enough beef for everyone.
Pros:
–Helpful service. They were patient and helpful with out questions and needs.
–cheap? I would say for 8 people, we only paid $ 85 before tax.
Cons:
–Not a lot of options rolling around. And I mean, literally, rolling around. The classic Cheong fan wasn’t being served unless you requested it!
–No menus. It’s nearing lunch time and I would think that you’d give us a lung menu too since the cart ladies were taking off! You’d have to be a frequent here to be able to understand what they are doing…
Tips/​Observations:
–parking lot is small! Be prepared to circle around.
Overall, never again… I would check out other places besides here.

Was Unilocaling on dim sum places in Vegas, saw that this place had four stars and saw that it was a new place– so my thinking was ok, this place is new so in order to attract lotta customers, I’m sure the food was good.
Got there, the place was chaotic. They handed out your order number in piece of papers and the bathroom was so ghetto… I question if this place was really new and just opened up…
Ok aside from the disappointment of the looks, with dim sum, the food taste is most critical part: it was badddddd
Some of meats were over cooked and porridge I got was terrible… It was so bad I didn’t even bother to touch the food after second bite. If u know me, I never leave restaurant without leaving the dishes… At least get to go. The foods were super oily and taste bad. Never come back

I have to admit the visit in this dim sum place was great and the price was affordable. My family and I went here on a Sunday afternoon. There wasn’t a long line when we got in the restaurant which was great. The place and the service employees were very welcoming. The dim sum we ordered were served fresh and we had some spring rolls on the side. However, the one thing that surprised me was how dirty the restroom was in this restaurant. The floor was really dirty and toilet papers were unwell-​kept. The restaurant could at least have someone maintained the restroom in good shape and clean because this will reflect on how one maintains the cleanliness of the place.

We went for lunch at noon, on a Sunday. It was crowded and wait time is acceptable for busy weekend lunch hour. We were seated in the main dining area, so the carts came around frequently.
Food: Overall the food came out freah and hot. The common dim sum dishes was acceptable. Shiu Mai (Pork dumpling), Sticky rice in lotus leaf, Beef ball, and Steamed Rice Rolls was good. Egg Custard Tarts had a very good filling, the tart crust however needs improvement, it’s a bit too flaky and falls apart. Turnip cake was too soft and fell apart, if they added a little more flour or starch to make it solid, then fry it, the outcome will be much better. Their Coconut Pudding was great, smooth coconut flavor and chewy.
Service: Grand opening, so the service is still smoothing out, which is underatandable. They servers did tey their beat to stay on top of things and went around frequently to check on refills, clear empty dishes, etc.
Atmosphere: The new owners remodeled the inside, closed out the old unused bar and moved it over to the fish tanks, which ia easier for servers to deliver drinks to us. The old bar location has been converted into a private VIP room. Leveled out the entire main dining room intl a single level, which made it better for access and looked nicer. New lighter shade of paint definitely brightened up the place. Flooring has been redone, tiles throughout the hallways and waiting area, carpet has been cleaned. Overall, no old food smell anymore.
We will come back again.

I just want to say. Good food ! Good service …
Come in here … You will not be disappointed
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This is where Jade Restaurant used to be a year ago. We were looking for an early dim sum place. Luckily this place is open from 9am. Most dim sum place is open from 10am.
Service was good and speedy. Dim sum was pretty descent for its price. The staff said they open 2 days ago. So they’re still working things out. There was one staff that was louder than others. Oh well. Maybe stress?