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It's not as good like it use to taste......I've fallen in love with HONG KONG's dimsum....
Their service is still awesome but their food isnt hitting the right spots anymore.
My sunday Rituals sin't here anymore. I relocated! :)
You can catch me here every sunday for brunch!
Great customer service and they are fast with seating!…
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I give this place 3.5 stars. I am so happy to have place that has a dim sum cart. We ordered the following:
Chicken feet: I heard this was good, but I didn't eat it because I don't conusme chicken feet. It looked normal with the red/brown seasoning and sauce and the portion was of good size.
Shrimp hargow: The wrapper is thinner than what I usually have but the shrimp is pretty big making it heartier thatn normal. 4 dumplings are served in the steamer compared to 3.
Pan-fried shrimp cake: Absolutely delicious. The wrapper on the cake is browned on top with sesame seed just right. The filling is full of shrimp, I mean oozing out once you bite into it. The flavors of garlic, ginger, cilantro and chives are just perfect. There isn't too much so as to be overpowering in spices.
Pan-fried Daikon Cake: I don't know if this had been sitting out. It just didn't seem fresh because it wasn't crispy enough. However, it wasn't oily at all and I loved the taste of the crunchy bacon and garlic bit in it. 3 are served on a plate.
Pork Shumai: This was better than I have expected. It was very flavorful on its own. 4 are served in a steamer and they are served with the orange caviar on top and some black bean included in the pork-filling.
Char-Siu Bow or steamed pork bun: 3 are served in a steamer. It is the red barbecue pork in red sauce that makes the filling. It tastes pretty standard and are small in size. The same size as the ones they sell in the freezer section of Ranch 99.
Seafood dumpling: Another delicious dish. Thinly wrapped and full of a variety of seafood including shrimp, crab. and scallop. Cilantro, chives and ginger make the seasoning. Again oozing filling. 3 dumplings per steamer.
Custard Egg Tart: Not too impressed with the egg tart. First of all, it was orange in color and am used to it being yellow in color. The custard wasn't too eggy and was soft. The crust was crumbly. I have definitely had better. 3 tarts are served on a plate.
Coconut-peanut ball: Pretty scrumptious. A gooey coconut paste outside with dry chooped peanuts on the inside. THe ball is also rolled in small coconut flakes. Very good. 3 balls on a plate. A must have.
Service was good. The room is huge for chiese banquets. Parking is adequate with 2 lots just for the restaurant or there is street parking. Staff is friendly and most importantly, I only spent $35.00 including tax and tip. The down side is that the tables aren't well cleaned cuz it felt kind of sticky and there are no shark fin dumplings. Definitely a place for dim sum land.
I think I'm a bit torn between 3 & 4 stars so I went with 4. House of Hong was kind of my first dim sum love in Seattle when I moved here. I instantly enjoyed their flaky chicken curry pies. Of course, they have the standard dim sum fare; hum bow, shu mai, shrimp balls, shrimp toast, etc. If you don't eat pork or shrimp, you should maybe not come here. I eat both of those things so I'm good. I enjoy this place. It's huge, has lots of waitresses pushing carts full of goodies around often. I happen to loooooove Chinese broccoli so I always get that and they squirt some kind of soy-hoiseny sauce on it that's mild in flavor but I love it. Deeeelish.
I say try House of Hong if you're into seeing what all the Intl Dist has to offer you.
(Note: I have only had dim sum for brunch there so I cannot attest to their non-dim sum menu. I stick with what I know is good so there you go). :P
I love House of Hong! What is with all the haters? I'm not going to say "as good as it gets" here, but I still think they are grrrreat (a la Tony the Tiger). Here's why--the selection is good, especially on weekends, which is when I tend to go. There is parking available for freezies, and in addition there is an adorable elderly parking attendant who affably slaps your car as though it was a horse coming into the barn while directing you into your parking spot. I love that guy.
The ladies working the floor of House of Hong have actually gotten friendlier since I have been going, which isn't so important to me... I rather like the brusque manner in which they come by with their goodies, avidly pushing shrimp toast and sugar cane shrimp like used car salesmen. I think their dumplings are rad--the potstickers with pork and ginger in them are surprisingly tasty. I never liked potstickers that much before coming here. The har gow is delicious, as is the shrimp with veggies (don't know the real name of those), and bao. I'm not a big congee fan, but my parents are pretty into the congee at House of Hong, and nearly always get it. The dim sum here has always been very good when I went, and I love being able to go and pig out and walk away feeling like I got a sweet deal.
I don't have much to say about this place. A group of my friends used to go most every week, and someone in that group had chosen this place without being challenged. It was fine. I was fed various things. Sometimes my water got filled. Nothing special.
Many of us from work come for the dim sum...The dim sum is not as fresh and hot as it once was and I beleive they are a bit over confident on their customer base and have gotten a bit greedy. As dim sum goes the price is average to a bit pricy. If pricy, the food needs to have me with a little bit of a WOW factor...
Service is ok, dim sum is ok and I would return but I think we as a group will now venture out from here. You really get the impression they do not care if you are there or not. Too bad because they have parking...Better to pay for parking and be happy...
A bit disappointing and I have been a return customer many times...and I am definately venturing out to try new dim sum...
Cold Food Serious Poor Service (When you get lucky can get the service this place deserves a much higher rating, but it has been hit and miss for the last 4 years I have periodically tried it . . . it is good when it can be . . . poor is expected)
Review for dinner... We came here for grandma's birthday on Friday. Mom ordered up some quail, some type of a stir fried huge prawns, oyster omelet, free range chicken, noodle dish, sea bass, pea vines, tofu veggie dish, stir fried custard dish. The food was good. My favorite here is the custard dish, my hubby loves the oyster omelet, and my little boy loves the chicken and quail. The stir fried prawns were enormous. After the meal, they brought out special desserts for us since it was grandma's birthday. Very nice touch. Extra perks: parking, clean bathroom. Not so good for the restaurant: the dining room always feels empty when we're here for dinner. Maybe because it's so big but it's kind of a weird feeling. Dim sum here is ok btw. Not fantastic but just ok. We usually go elsewhere for that but dinner lately here has been pretty dang good.
Do NOT go here!
They will only be nice to you if they think you have money.
Seriously... I've never seen a restaurant discriminate against college students as much as they did.
My boyfriend and I decided to come here for our last dinner before I flew off to visit my family. Let me just say, we came in and saw the wonderful fancy decor, and expected some great service.
Instead, a very rude waitress led us to our table and then ditched us without saying a word.
We waited FOREVER. I wanted some water, so when she walked by, I said "Excuse me..." and she cut me off, putting a hand hear my face and saying "Hold on."
Then she went on to escort a large party of what seemed to be wealthy people along with ANOTHER waiter. Seriously does that party need TWO people waiting on them when I couldn't even get a cup of water?
When she FINALLY came back later after my boyfriend and I were ready to leave, she was all "Do you know what you want?"
We felt bad for just walking out, so we ordered a small appetizer of BBQ pork ribs. It was like $8 for two bites of food. WTF. And it wasn't even good. The meat was stiff, and it was 80% bone.
Anyways, the waitress came back and was like "Okay so what do you want to order now?" and we just told her we didn't want anything else. She looked at us very degradingly and said "Really? That's it?"
We got the hell out of there, but not before the cashier guy in the front shot us weird looks when he saw that we had only ordered an appetizer.
What a snobby place. Don't go there.
If you have a lot of money, spend it somewhere else. Even if PF Chang's isn't authentic Chinese food, at least they smiled at us when we walked in.
I'm not sure SLY knows what good food is. Out of several ID Dim Sum shops I've been to, I have to give House of Hong the award for excellence. I'll admit, I may be patial to HoH, as it was the first place I experienced Dim Sum; but the fact remains that none of the other Dim Sum shops I've been recommended to (- China Gate, Jade Garden, several others)- have been able to match.
Their dinner is also great. The Fried Rice seems pleasantly devoid of MSG and has a nice smokey flavor. (other Chinese chefs take note: cook with REAL flavoring technique, rather than over-use of MSG)
House of Hong's service has always been very pleasant and they have free parking!
This place is big. That's good because it affords a lot of seating and makes it easy to get a table during the day for lunch. Staff is usually helpful and friendly. They can be a little pushy however with the dim sum carts. Prices are very reasonable especially if your coming with a lot of people who are splitting the bill.
Decor is standard ID with the required fish tank, lazy Susans in the middle of the tables and and red paper lanterns hanging from the ceiling. As a bonus, they have a full (kind of) bar and a gift shop.
They even have parking on the side of the building, but it fills up real quick during lunch so count yourself lucky if you get a spot.
The Dim Sum Brunch here was highly disappointing and highly overpriced.
It starts out with the parking (they have reserved which is nice) but there is a guy who checks to make sure you are a customer, and promises to "take care" of your car for a tip. Mind you there is no valet so I am not sure what he means. (thinking about Vinnie the Hand coming to allow you to claim a new windshield)
The dim sum choices are limited, with little variety. The items we had were good, but nothing outstanding. Hong Kong Dim Sum just a block away was far superior in terms of quality.
Thinking that all items were dim-sum priced, the noodle cart costs nearly 7 bucks for plain chow fun. Paid 10 dollars more and got a lot less for the buck than other comparable places.
Mind you there are a few good items on the Dim Sum menu, so if your friends drag you there, you dont have to feign a bout of Swine Flu, but if you have any input, picky another place!
Eh. Cold dim sum and the usual whiteboy treatment. Cold at 11am on a Sunday. Weird.
I think I may have to get some kind of sign made that says "I am a white ghost, however I do like more than just shrimp shu mai, batpo" for places like this. It's really getting old.
The price was about $20 more than expected as well. I'm wondering if I got some kind of special whitey rate or if they're just exceptionally expensive for the ID. I couldn't imagine why as they're one of the worst in taste.
I thought that I would give them another try. Well alright. That's done. Now they're banned for life.
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The best part of the dining experience was the REALLY bad toupee on the cashier.
Everything was cold and greasy and tasted exactly the same. Ew.
First of all, I never liked this place to begin with. This co-worker of mine. Calls herself a "Dim Sum" expert. Loves this place.
Maybe it has improved since I've been there (5 yrs ago?) Needless to say, I was an unhappy lady. So, damn pissed.Cold food, knocked on the buns (it's hard), bitter tea. From that point I began dissecting the food. To eat or NOT to eat.
Personally, I felt that I didn't get good service. Because I don't belong the majority group of ppl that dines here.
NOT COMING BACK!
House of Hong is a good place to order couple of things for the table and serve it family style. There is your Americanized favorites and then some exotic dishes but overall pretty tasty.
A few times my dumplings were cold but there general tso chicken seems to be fresh with a well seasoned sauce covering it with a nice crisp skin.
Definitely an easy place to get to and prices are very reasonable. Ample parking on the side of the building and you are bound to get a table pretty quickly even on busy times.
That being said, there is a reason for it...The dim sum menu is ok and nothing wow-ing. Definitely nothing that makes me say "Oooh" or "I have to come back here for this..."
The staff are good and are pretty attentive and notice when you are running low on something.
I had my first dim sum experience at House of Hong and it was exhilarating. The zipping around of metal carts, orders shouted between server and customer, and little plates thrown at tables was like being in a culinary theme park.
On my last visit the place wasn't as crowded as I was used to seeing. It was on a weekday after the lunch crowd had left. I was surprised to find they still served dim sum. However it wasn't as fresh as when it's served on the weekends, when the big crowd is around. Understandable.
I advise going there when the crowd is there, even if there is a wait. The food rotates quicker and the cart traffic is fun to watch.
It got three Stars because the Dim-Sum is amazing and the dinner menu sucks. I ordered of the dinner menu because i was too late for Dim-Sum and got chewy pork fat and yummy pig ribs (the bones not the meat). Do not judge them by this fact it must be the third string workers. The first String cooks are showering after the A+ Dim-Sum. The Hom Bow was great, the service was fun,and a huge dining room with tons of like minded people. To avoid the bad food Go before 4:00 the earlier the better.
The only time I really come here is for quick dim sum. Normally after drinking on a Saturday night I am fiendishly craving dim sum the following morning. The food here is always the same...nothing spectacular and nothing really poor.
It is quick and they have the normal selection of dim sum. Sometimes they do surprise me with things like skewered shrimp and a crab shell stuffed with various seafood items...but for the most part it is your run of the mill dim sum. The carts come around fast and they do their best to get you in and out in a hurry to help accommodate the line that forms after church on Sundays.
I come here when I am not expecting too much...just a quick meal to get me past hang over stage and into lazy Sunday afternoon mode.
Tip: If you want something just ask for it or wave down the lady with the cart. If you are one of those people expecting the ladies to come by, nicely describe what each dish has in it, and cater to you then you are in the wrong place. Heck...sometimes if I can't get their attention I will grab the ticket, walk up to the cart, take what I want, and go back to the table. Might sound weird and slightly aggressive but they don't mind so why should you?
Ok, now I totally understand what everyone was complaining about with regards to greasy and bland dim-sum. Yeah, this is my 1st time there, and possibly the last time. Not so great sums it up.
On the other hand, I was there for Santacon/Santicon and that was a blast. I'd imagine it's very hard to accommodate 100 Santas on short notice at any other dim-sum place, so the choice made sense. For that, I added a star.
House of Hong?
More like House of Horrors.
I thought the large Chinese population would lead to quality dim sum. Boy was I wrong. And coming from LA, it just doesn't feel authentic when the chinese cart women can speak perfect english.
Either drive 2.5 hours up to Vancouver or fly 2.5 hours down to LA for some good dimsum. Until then, this place will fill you up but won't fill your dimsum cravings.
Not only they charge 1.50 for each bowl of rice, during dinner with friends, there was a fat rabbit sized rat running around the restaurant. All of us hopped up on the booth with our feet in the air and panicked while we were eating. I told the waitress and she said "Oh we know we know" The health department is coming right now. Yeahh right!! it was 9 pm at night and i reported them to the health department because they lied.
House of Hong has been around for ages and was my first experience of dim sum. I loved this place when I was a kid and our family still goes there every Christmas morning.
I have though grown up and experienced better dim sum. The only reason we go back is because its a big place and easy to get a table for a big family. I keep telling my cousins that Jade Garden is better but I seriously don't see us fitting in an establishment that small.
Overall, I would say House of Hong is dim sum for the masses.
definitely one for the gwei lo. i've had better. they dim sum cart with the shiu mai, beef balls, whatever, never changes. that's kind of all they have + some regular stuff. nothing special. not choices of teas.
This was my first time having dimsum. it was a-ok. im not a realy big fan of chinese foods and this place just reminded me of how greasy and unappetizing chinese food can be. aside from the haternation posting before me, it was pretty cool. i likes how they drive the carts around the restaurant. reminds me of "no reservations". id definitely want to get dimsum sometime in the future, prolly not here tho. this place definitely felt like a todai, all you can eat with family on sunday after temple kinda cozy
i wonder if theres dimsum in san diego
I have dim sum dates with one of my best friends, and it has always been Joy Palace, and I think from now on we're going to stick to that place, and only that place.
No wonder this place has such an array of different dim sum offerings, they're hoping that you try all of them, disappointment after disappointment (hmmm...maybe the "orange" custard pie tastes good!)
*DO NOT ORDER THE ORANGE CUSTARD! (usually it's yellow, and doesn't taste like unflavored gelatin)
In addition to that do not order:
shu mai: flavorless, gummy, and chewy
shrimp dumplings: the ratio of chives to shrimp is like 25:1
sesame balls: cold and super oily
pork spare ribs: more bone than the actual meat, eck!
Actually, now that I think about it, just don't go there.
There service is horrible anyways, we asked for the check and I could've sworn they flung it from the cash register counter.
My favorite thing about this place is the guy with three fingers that directs the parking lot. And after reading the many reviews about how terrible this place is, I'll focus on the positive and leave the rest up to the readers!
The place is huge and I've never experienced a wait longer than 5 minutes. They corral you like cattle a bit, wait I'm focusing on the good stuff!
The lady in yellow and the lady in purple speak great English.
They play sports on the television on Sunday mornings.
I like the hum bao.
The best part about House of Hong is the giant panda mural.
And that's about it.
House of Hong is my Dad's favorite place to drag the family when he's in town. I guess it used to be his favorite when he was younger, and now he refuses to admit that it's time to move on to greener pastures.
We go for regular dinner, I've never tried the dim sum. Almond Chicken / Chow Mein / Brocolli & Garlic Sauce / Fried Rice / Won Ton Soup / Whatever, it all leans heavily on the bland side. All of it forgettable. Sometimes it's even lukewarm.
I mean, it's Chinese food. It's okay. It's a pretty safe bet if you're eating out, and you get plenty. But the quality is not there, especially for the price. It's probably one step above the food court stuff.
Service is spotty too. Even when we're the only people in the whole place, and the waitstaff is two tables over shucking green beans or whatever -- it still takes an impossibly long time before they'll come take your order. The staff is friendly enough, though.
In summation! House of Hong is edible, but if you're already in the International District there are a million other places to go for much better food.
We come here a lot. Parking is a hassle but once you are in , you are IN. Don't get carried away with ordering too much too soon! Those sweet ladies and their carts will swarm your table with shumai and pork buns before you know it, though they are hard to understand and a little brusque than the waitresses at Four Sea's next door.
Still, the food is best here. Prices are reasonable though you have to ask for the cost of anything as it comes if you need to know.
For years, this was the only place I ate dim sum. I was starting to think I didn't like dim sum. Truth is, I just don't like House of Hong.
The past couple times I've been here, I haven't seen the adorable little old man who used to help find parking spaces for the hungry masses. His absence leaves House of Hong with few redeeming qualities.
The food is slightly below average - simultaneously oily and bland, an excess of stray cartilage in the shu mai - and the prices are, if anything, a bit steeper than your average dim sum location. The stuff that it's hard to mess up, like cha siu bao, is always good. I don't go to dim sum to eat 10 cha siu bao, though. I go to dim sum to eat a little bit of everything. When 75% of everything isn't very good, I don't come back.
One star for your pork buns, and another for not actually succeeding in turning me off of dim sum for life.
We made the trek into Seattle on a sunny Sunday morning and had Dim Sum at the House of Hong based on AAA recommendations. We scored a free parking spot along Jackson Street (near the end of the trolley line) and walked a short distance to the restaurant. There's also a parking lot for customers too, but we wanted to get a spot on the street since we were spending our day in Seatown. We arrived here around 10:30 AM and we were seated immediately since the place is fairly big with more seating than the other dim sum places.
We were given a pot of hot tea and quickly the carts came by. We chose several kinds of dumplings, buns, vegetables, taro, noodles, chicken feet, etc. The food was okay, not the best we've had, some of the food was lukewarm. At least the service was quick to fill our table to the point we couldn't eat another morsel of food. The bill for two people came out to $47, on the expensive for dim sum. Anywho, we were fed and all good to ride the trolley to the Public Market and visit the Space Needle.
Slower turnover. Lukewarm dim sum. No thanks!!!
I thought this place was bomb for some good, greasy, chinese deliciousness. A good place for a group, considering dim sum is always good for a group... Anyway, we got there and were bombarded by three ladies rolling carts of fresh hot food, shout-asking if we wanted this or that and I barely had time to compute it all, especially since I didn't know what half the stuff was that they were offering since I don't know chinese. But honestly that was part of the fun, we just pointed and agreed and plates were thrown on our table and it was all delicious from the hum bao to the fried rice.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I need some green tea to soak up all of the grease that is now resting happily in my lil buddha bellly.
Something has changed - will it ever be the same again?
For several years, House of Hong *was* a family fave, good food, lots of large, round tables for extended fam. It was a favorite especially for an elder relative who is now passed. But now, too, our crown favorite for House of Hong has also now passed.
First, my husband suspects that one of the so-so servers was promoted to be a so-so host. She tried to offer us the live Ling Cod in the tank near our table. So-So host spooked the hell out of my daughter when she persisted that we order the 3-ft+ long Ling Cod in the tank behind our table. My daughter is two years old. Stop pushing the live fish!
We typically order some of the same dishes for dinner - and our recent meal there after being gone for awhile was drastically different. In particular....
Prawns with Lobster Sauce: They were huge and there were LOTS of them. Tons of them. It was amazing. Giant onion slices that is. Sauce was not as tasty or smooth and its sauce looked too similar the the Garlic Chicken (did they cheat and use the same concoction?).
I'd maybe go back at prime Saturday dim sum with friends for nostalgia or curiosity. But I won't be coming back for dinner.
Some things just don't stay the same.
"Yes! You park here!" says the little man in the safety vest ushering cars into the two tiny lots owned by House of Hong. "Yes, yes, I park here and have sub par dim sum surrounded by honkies." I think to myself.
That, my friends, is why I ever, ever, EVER go to House of Hong. To avoid the parking game during dim sum hours in the ID. If I have an ounce of patience available I'll be the only white girl at Honey Court.
From my one experience at this restaurant, I agree with some of the other reviewers here. We walked in at lunch and were walking around seattle for the day, so were not well-dressed. It took a pretty long time for us to be offered even one dish - and when we did it was a honey coated pork dish that was at least 50% bone/cartilage and not all that enjoyable to eat because of that. It was tasty, but we then sat with that dish on its own for quite some time. The other dishes were offered to us eventually and they were good, but nothing spectacular. I will say the sesame balls were great and we did stuff ourselves for around $22 (2 people), so I can't complain about the price. Anyway, not the best, but definitely a decent lunch in a pinch.
DIMSUM-to-DIMSHIT.
Back in 2003 my girlfriends and I would come here every Sunday to our dimsum run before hanging out all day. I had always known this place to be a little bit pricer then other dimsum joints I've ate around Chinatown. You'd think pricer items means good stuff. WRONG.
Every sunday there is always a short wait to get a table here. Usually we'd roll 7 people deep when eating here. Everytime is always a disappointment. The service especially. I dont know how these people get to keep their jobs when they don't even do it correctly.
- bad service
- medicore dimsum, nasty sticky rice (is that really sticky rice?)
- expensive when it's not worth it
- did i mention, BAD SERVICE (i can mention that another 3 more times)
I regret to inform the public, dimsum turned to dimshit.
Been here for dim sum twice. The selection is lacking, and the food isn't great. A few of the dishes that should have been hot came out lukewarm or almost cold. Food isn't carted around very quickly, regardless of how crowded the restaurant is.
My rating is based on the quality of the food alone, but I am also not impressed with the service.
I parked in their attended "lot" (really more like a wider strip of the sidewalk that has been annexed for House of Hong) one time. Another customer parked right behind me in a single-occupany spot, blocking my only exit out. (The lot attendant who directs cars into the lot and valets some cars didn't notice at all.) I tried to get help from the staff, but the first four people I talked to all acted too busy to care. I was left hanging for about 45min until I finally caught the attention of a more sympathetic and efficient staff member, who made an announcement to fish out the customer who had blocked off my car.
In conclusion, I'm not likely to return to House of Hong again.
I've always wondered...how is it possible that I've lived here half my life and have never stepped foot in House of Hong. I mean it's still open for business, so it has to be doing something right, right? wrong.
You know you've picked the wrong place when their barbecue pork resembles the packages you see at Costco. There were few good dishes but most of them were bleh. Maybe I'm just too picky because my love for dim sum is just too strong!
One thing I do like is the decor. It is quite unpleasing and I am NOT being sarcastic. It made me feel nostalgic. Reminds me of little me running around while the parentals are chatting an afternoon away with friends and family at dim sum.
Oh the free parking was also great, but then again are you there for the parking or the food?
Neighborhood: International District
Category: Seafood
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Category: Dim Sum
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