Chong's Wuntun House - Vancouver

Normally this restaurant has good food and good service. For our usual dim sum fare we ordered a total of 8 dishes. 1. the pan fried daikon radish wasn't tanned (some of the flavor comes from tanning,) 2. their famous baked barbeque pork buns also wasn't tanned, so the bottom was a bit soggy and didn't have the crunchy top they are well known for, 3. the steamed shrimp

It has now been 5 years (almost to the day) since we (senior couple and daughter) first walked into Chong’s Restaurant to try their dim sum, and 3 years since I submitted my last update to our dining experiences there. Like I have said before, Chong’s quickly became “our place” for dim sum — dim sum for breakfast - yum! It’s a rather small place, gets crowded, wonderfully-noisy, and for us, has always offered such good value-priced, and tasty dim sum fare. We enjoy the friendly, and very casual nature of the place, it has always sounded and ‘felt’ good to us, and over the years, we have come to know so many fellow diners there. We never looked back after that first dining experience, and I sure cannot count the number of times we have walked in since then.What’s to update? Not really not very much since my last update, except for further across-the-board minimal price increases, and applied to all dim sum offerings. On the current dim sum menu-: ‘basic’ dim sum offerings (40 dishes) are priced at $3.48/each — the two roast and bbq pork ‘on’ steamed rice dishes are priced at $5.38/each — chef specials (20 offerings - soups, veggie dishes, small hot pots, deep fried prawns and squid, chicken knees, and the like) priced from $5.38 - $8.38 — the congees (seafood, fish, chicken, beef, and pork) priced from $5.50 - $5.98/bowl, and $11.80 - $13.50/casserole — chow meins (house special and seafood) priced at $13.50/each — and rice/noodle dishes (13 offerings) priced at $7.98/each.Dishes ordered today: all dishes came from kitchen to our table piping hot, well-prepared, and tasty. - steamed prawn

This is the week of the Lunar New Year so we made a special trip to Chong's for a dim sum lunch. As was anticipated the restaurant was filled to the rafters with 3 and 4 different parties sharing the larger tables. The 3 wait staffers did their best to keep up with the orders and our lunch did arrive in a timely fashion. For the uninitiated Chong's prepares all of their food items on site..................yummy too.

If you are not a Chinese senior you will probably stand out in this restaurant. We go for dim sum lunch regularly. all your old favourites with a generous portion size at $3.48 each (I love the chee cheung fun.) Also a number of other lunch specials (rice and roast pork etc.) Service is reasonably good and food very tasty. Also had their set dinner (for 10...I did not eat it all myself) and again food good...not spectacular but good value for money. They are not licenced but seem OK with bringing wine along.

Chong's is always a good place to enjoy dim sum because all of the offerings (including the roasted pig) are made in-house. It's always a good idea to arrive early as the locals generally fill the restaurant by 11:00 AM. Susan (with the red vest) is always helpful in making suggestions (she co-owns the business with her husband)